This macabre story about a murderous elevator that mysteriously begins to function on its own and kills anybody who goes near it is more of a black comedy than a scary horror movie. Huub Stapel plays a repairman who discovers that the company he is working for has been experimenting with microchips in the lifts circuitry, and teams up with a tabloid newspaper reporter (Willeke van Ammelrooy) to try and get to the bottom of things . A security guard being decapitated is a gory highlight, but genuine scares and tension are few and far apart in this 1983 Dutch film directed and written by Dick Maas, who also made an American remake entitled Down in 2001. They should have taken the stairs.