01
The Lift
Why this pick
A lean, darkly playful predecessor to Down, with the same claustrophobic high-rise machinery menace and escalating investigation—though it is excluded as the original version of the same story.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2001 1h 51m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Down
ActionHorrorThriller
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
If you loved Down, try these.
01
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In New York City, a stray bolt of lightning strikes the 102-floor, 73-elevator Millennium Building. The three main express elevators begin acting strangely, resulting in a guard's flashlight being crushed. The next day, a group of pregnant women are held up between floors 20 and 21. The elevator overheats rapidly, causing two women to give birth and hospitalizing the rest. Reporter Jennifer Evans is called to write a report on the incident. After an investigation by METEOR elevator company technicians Jeff McClellan and Mark Newman, they determine that nothing is wrong with the elevators, a large part being Jeff's inability to actually admit there is something wrong (he states throughout his scenes that the computer controlling the elevators has absolutely no defects).
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Naomi Watts
Jennifer Evans
Kathryn Meisle
Mildred
David Gwillim
Blind Man (Mr Faith)
John Cariani
Security Guard Gary
Ike Barinholtz
Niles Benson
Peter Banks
Maintenance Chief
James Marshall
Mark Newman
Eric Thal
Jeffrey