The Lift (1983)

November 26, 2018

Directed by: Dick Maas

Written by: Dick Maas

Starring: Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine van Dalsum

Budget: €350,000

Quote: "These damn machines will be the death of us all some day!"

Trivia: Dick Maas was fired halfway of the production because of continuing arguments with producer Matthijs van Heijningen about casting. However, he kept on working during that day and was rehired the day after, because Van Heijningen couldn't do it without him.


Shudder recently put up two of Dutch director/writer Dick Maas' horror movies, Amsterdamned and The Lift. I chose The Lift. I chose wrong. About 170 movies in and this was one of the worst movies I have watched yet (Demented Death Farm Massacre was by far the worst). The movie's description reminded me of Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, a movie that I watched on a goof that ended up being a interesting and fun movie. However, this movie lacked the inventiveness and humor that that movie had. I'm really behind on writing about the movies I have been watching so I'm going to make this one short.

The Vault (2017)

July 24, 2018

Directed by: Dan Bush

Written by: Dan Bush, Conal Byrne

Starring: James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood

Budget: $5,000,000

Tagline: No one is safe.

Trivia: Keith Loneker's last movie before he lost his battle with cancer on June 22nd, 2017.







After reading the description on Netflix about a bank heist that goes south when they realize the bank vault is haunted, I decided to give the movie a shot. I realized that of the now fifty one movies I have watched, I have barely watched any haunted/ghost movies. I'm sure if I looked there'd be more but right now I can only remember House (which was not so good). This movie had some great actors and some definitely great scenes but overall it fell kind of flat. The film focuses too much on the family dynamics of the characters and the bank heist itself and the haunted vault is treated as an afterthought. If I had to guess, most of the $5 million budget was spent on the actors instead of the creepy stuff.