The Lift has one of the most fun concepts for a horror movie (in a decade filled with fun concepts for horror movies). I thought the kills were very creative and I liked how the same kill is never attempted twice. However, I thought that all of the subplots were very uninteresting and the ending was a bit anticlimactic.

The Lift has one of the most fun concepts for a horror movie (in a decade filled with fun concepts for horror movies). I thought the kills were very creative and I liked how the same kill is never attempted twice. However, I thought that all of the subplots were very uninteresting and the ending was a bit anticlimactic.

No….

No….

There’s something so funny about a movie taking itself this seriously while being about a homicidal elevator. It’s an ordinary B movie elevated (lol) by how straight everyone plays it. Maas shoots it like a genuine thriller, the moody lighting, tense score, all the ingredients for Hitchcockian suspense. But it’s still a story about a lift with a grudge. The tone is stuck somewhere between absurd and unsettling, somehow that mix kinda works? You can feel the early 80s charm bleeding through the dodgy effects and clunky pacing.

There’s something so funny about a movie taking itself this seriously while being about a homicidal elevator. It’s an ordinary B movie elevated (lol) by how straight everyone plays it. Maas shoots it like a genuine thriller, the moody lighting, tense score, all the ingredients for Hitchcockian suspense. But it’s still a story about a lift with a grudge. The tone is stuck somewhere between absurd and unsettling, somehow that mix kinda works? You can feel the early 80s charm bleeding through the dodgy effects and clunky pacing.

Solid horror b-movie

Solid horror b-movie

There were a couple of fun kills, but god did it drag.

There were a couple of fun kills, but god did it drag.