Don't You Ever Use An Elevator!
by emertens | created - 17 Jul 2012 | updated - 20 Jul 2013 | PublicAs of August the 17th 2012, I cannot post (or reply to) comments anymore, because I don't have, nor do I want, a Facebook account.
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1. The Lift (1983)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine van Dalsum, Liz Snoyink
Votes: 7,699
2. Abwärts (1984)
PG | 90 min | Thriller
Two former lovers, an embezzler, and a messenger boy become trapped on a Friday in a stalled office elevator.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Götz George, Wolfgang Kieling, Renée Soutendijk, Hannes Jaenicke
Votes: 1,491
3. Lady in a Cage (1964)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos
Votes: 3,823 | Gross: $1.85M
4. Blackout (IV) (2008)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.
Director: Rigoberto Castañeda | Stars: Amber Tamblyn, Aidan Gillen, Armie Hammer, Katie Stuart
Votes: 3,971
5. Devil (2010)
PG-13 | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.
Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green
Votes: 156,972 | Gross: $33.58M
6. Elevator (V) (2012)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.
Director: Stig Svendsen | Stars: Christopher Backus, Aníta Briem, John Getz, Shirley Knight
Votes: 7,180
7. Downtime (1997)
90 min | Romance, Thriller
Chrissy contemplates suicide with her son. Rob, a former police psychologist, intervenes and asks her on a date. The two, along with Chrissy's son and elderly Pat, become trapped in an elevator after a drunken gang damages it.
Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper
Votes: 264
8. Four Stories of St. Julian (2010)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Thriller
Four strangers become trapped in the elevator of St. Julian-a decrepit, inner-city building. One of the four is an assassin.
Director: Shane Thueson | Stars: Ky Evans, David Alan Graf, Nicholl Hiren, Tommie St. Cyr
Votes: 94
9.
The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode:
The Elevator/To See the Invisible Man/Tooth and Consequences
(1986)
TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"The Elevator": Brothers Will and Roger locate their father's growth serum, which was developed to ensure a plentiful food supply. "To See the Invisible Man": Emotionally cold Mitchell ... See full summary »
Directors: Noel Black, Robert Downey Sr., Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Stephen Geoffreys, Robert Prescott, Douglas Emerson, Brandon Bluhm
Votes: 359
10. The Eye (2002)
R | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she will be able to see again. She gets more than she bargained for upon realizing she can also see ghosts.
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou, Jinda Duangtoy
Votes: 30,078 | Gross: $0.51M
11. Dark Water (2002)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa
Votes: 34,931
12. Trapped (1989 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
Kathleen Quinlan is a woman working late in her locked High-Rise office building who along with Bruce Abbot struggle to elude a killer (Ben Loggins) trying to kill them.
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce Abbott, Katy Boyer, Ben Loggins
Votes: 424
13. Paper Man (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that takes a murderous turn.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, Tina Chen
Votes: 531
14. Nightmare on the 13th Floor (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A reporter investigates the disappearances of guests at a hotel which she is writing a report about. Along the way, she will find an unmarked 13th floor where a murderer is on the loose.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Michele Greene, John Karlen, Louise Fletcher, Alan Fudge
Votes: 772
15. The Elevator (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing his latest job, is trapped along with group of people in a jammed elevator in a high-rise building.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: James Farentino, Roddy McDowall, Craig Stevens, Don Stroud
Votes: 243
16. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin
Votes: 28,646 | Gross: $0.11M
17. The Towering Inferno (1974)
PG | 165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Votes: 48,265 | Gross: $116.00M
18. Chosen Survivors (1974)
PG | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. ... See full summary »
Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 968
19. Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
"Fright Night Part 2" is a sequel to "link=tt0089175]". Charley Brewster and the horror host Peter Vincent must face more vampires, out for revenge.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen
Votes: 14,238 | Gross: $2.98M
20. Gusha no bindume (2004)
96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
One elevator, one girl who can read minds and one floor where the elevator should have never stopped: the ideal ingredients for a classic piece of weird horror. In the claustrophobic space ... See full summary »
Director: Hiroki Yamaguchi | Stars: Luchino Fujisaki, Yoshiichi Kawada, Ryôsuke Koshiba, Kae Minami
Votes: 1,186
aka: Hellevator.
21. Elevator (2008)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
A boy and a girl, both teenagers, want to get away from the world and be alone for a while, so they hide in an abandoned factory on the outskirts. But there they fall in a trap of their own... See full summary »
Director: George Dorobantu | Stars: Cristi Petrescu, Iulia Verdes
Votes: 309
22.
The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode:
Tower of Terror
(1997)
Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.
Director: D.J. MacHale | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples, Michael McShane, Amzie Strickland
Votes: 4,120
23. Demons 2 (1986)
R | 92 min | Horror
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Bobby Rhodes
Votes: 12,042
24. The Shaft (2001)
R | 111 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
When the elevators in New York's 102-story Millennium Building start to malfunction, mechanic Mark Newman is sent to find the cause. After a series of gruesome and deadly "accidents" occur, Mark joins forces with spunky reporter Jennifer.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric Thal, Michael Ironside
Votes: 5,298
25. Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Director: Skip Schoolnik | Stars: Bunky Jones, Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, George Thomas
Votes: 2,022
26. Final Destination 2 (2003)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Death is stalking Kimberly Corman and multiple survivors of a deadly highway accident.
Director: David R. Ellis | Stars: A.J. Cook, Ali Larter, Tony Todd, Michael Landes
Votes: 182,014 | Gross: $46.96M
27. Damien: Omen II (1978)
R | 107 min | Horror
Damien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Directors: Don Taylor, Mike Hodges | Stars: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth
Votes: 35,874 | Gross: $3.88M
28. Mindhunters (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey
Votes: 64,209 | Gross: $4.48M
29. Darkness Falls (2003)
PG-13 | 86 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman | Stars: Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield Ford, Antony Burrows, Lee Cormie
Votes: 33,390 | Gross: $32.55M
30. Steel Trap (2007)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Seven guests are invited to an after party on the abandoned floor of an office building, handpicked to play a series sadistic and deadly puzzles.
Director: Luis Cámara | Stars: Georgia Mackenzie, Mark Wilson, Pascal Langdale, Julia Ballard
Votes: 1,873
31. Dressed to Kill (1980)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
Votes: 48,233 | Gross: $31.90M
32. The Vault of Horror (1973)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Dawn Addams
Votes: 6,257
33. Lift (II) (2006)
88 min | Thriller
A psychological thriller. One quite ordinary summer morning five different and unacquainted people leave their apartments at different floors and enter the lift. The doors close behind the ... See full summary »
Director: Vsevolod Plotkin | Stars: Igor Vernik, Olga Rodionova, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Natalya Rychagova
Votes: 314
34. They (2002)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A psychology student finds all her childhood fears and phobias becoming real after a traumatic event.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Laura Regan, Marc Blucas, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 13,790 | Gross: $12.84M
35. Poltergeist III (1988)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein
Votes: 20,467 | Gross: $14.11M
36. Deep Rising (1998)
R | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor
Votes: 40,791 | Gross: $11.20M
37. Caved In (2006 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Disguised as extreme adventurers, a group of high profile thieves unknowingly lead a group of wealthy tourists on an expedition through an abandoned salt mine that is guarded by ancient creatures.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Christopher Atkins, Colm Meaney, Angela Featherstone, Monica Barladeanu
Votes: 1,265
38. Botched (I) (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Thriller
During a heist in Russia, a professional thief finds himself dealing with serial killers, insane hostages, double-crossing psycho Russian hardmen and the real possibility of a horrible death.
Director: Kit Ryan | Stars: David Heap, Alan Smyth, Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee
Votes: 6,662
39. Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
A news anchorwoman begins to suspect a man living in the same apartment complex as her to be the serial killer that's been raping and killing women in the Miami area.
Director: Ken Wiederhorn | Stars: Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti, Peter DuPre
Votes: 3,180 | Gross: $1.12M
40. Sl8n8 (2006)
90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
After her father gets killed in an automobile accident, Kristel Lodema discovers that he was investigating an old mine where convicted child killer Andries Martiens died back in 1857. ... See full summary »
Directors: Frank van Geloven, Edwin Visser | Stars: Victoria Koblenko, Kürt Rogiers, Jop Joris, Amia Cate Audrey
Votes: 1,792
41. Dark Floors (2008)
R | 85 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
Director: Pete Riski | Stars: William Hope, Leon Herbert, Ronald Pickup, Philip Bretherton
Votes: 7,063
42. The Blackout (2009)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
It's Christmas Eve, the city goes dark, and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone.
Director: Robert David Sanders | Stars: Barbara Streifel Sanders, Joseph Dunn, Ian Malcolm, Michael Caruso
Votes: 1,775
43. Akumu no erebêtâ (2009)
107 min | Thriller
(Japanese with English subtitles) Three seemingly unacquainted men and a woman find themselves trapped in an elevator. As the hours pass and anxiety rises, they recount darkly funny tales ... See full summary »
Director: Keisuke Horibe | Stars: Seiyô Uchino, Aimi Satsukawa, Shôtarô Ashida, Sei Ashina
Votes: 138
44.
Regal Shocker (2011– )
Episode:
Elevator
(2011)
Horror, Romance, Thriller
Director: Topel Lee | Stars: Gabby Concepcion, Niña Jose, Christine Joy De Guzman, Jess Evardone
45.
Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode:
Chinese Box
(2007)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
David is held hostage in an elevator at the F.B.I. building, and Don keeps brushing aside Charlie's suggestion to save David as an all-out assault is planned.
Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard
Votes: 258
46.
Lights Out (1946–1952)
Episode:
The Elevator
(1949)
Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Stars: Royal Dano, Helen Dumas, Jack Hartley, Jack La Rue
47. Glass Trap (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When an army of radioactive ants are unknowingly carted into a skyscraper, a group of people have to find a way out before they're eaten one by one.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Stella Stevens, Siri Baruc, Brent Huff
Votes: 1,065
48. Speed (1994)
R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton
Votes: 391,994 | Gross: $121.25M
49. Dark Tales of Japan (2004 TV Movie)
92 min | Horror
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors.
Directors: Yoshihiro Nakamura, Masayuki Ochiai, Takashi Shimizu, Kôji Shiraishi, Norio Tsuruta | Stars: Kayoko Shiraishi, Shôzô Endô, Yoshinori Okada, Kanako Fukaura
Votes: 597
Anthology tv movie. segment: "Premonition" (YOKAN)
50. Famous Dead People (1999)
76 min | Drama
Famous Dead People is the story of two strangers who get trapped in a thirty year old elevator over a long weekend only to be spied upon by an unrelenting and un-editing video surveillance camera.
Director: Erin Whalen | Stars: Jason Carter, Caryl McKay, Thomas Lundy
Votes: 106
51. The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Having recently escaped the clutches of a hippie sex cult, a beautiful model is pursued by a serial killer whose previous victims include former occupants of her new apartment.
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 3,307
52. Cry Terror! (1958)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Duped by former Army pal Paul Hoplin into building a time-bomb, New York shop owner Jim Molner and his family become hostages of Hoplin who uses bomb-threats to extort money from airlines.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Neville Brand
Votes: 1,703
53. Death Machine (1994)
R | 120 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a mad genius inventor of killer robots and cyborgs at Chaank Armaments Corp. kills execs, he unleashes his ultimate death machine on the new cute CEO firing him.
Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Brad Dourif, Ely Pouget, William Hootkins, John Sharian
Votes: 4,843 | Gross: $1.42M
54. Das Inferno - Flammen über Berlin (2007 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Action
A fire breaks out in the Berlin Television Tower, trapping several people in the revolving restaurant and observation deck at the top. A team of firefighters, including a disgraced former ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Matsutani | Stars: Stephan Luca, Silke Bodenbender, Klaus J. Behrendt, Christian Kahrmann
Votes: 330
55. Amityville 3-D (1983)
PG | 105 min | Horror
A reporter moves into the Amityville house in defiance of the supernatural events connected to it, and finds everyone around him besieged by the evil manifestations which are connected to a demonic presence in the basement.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark
Votes: 7,524 | Gross: $6.33M
56. Voice (2005)
Unrated | 104 min | Horror
While training after hours in her high-school, the aspiring singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her ... See full summary »
Director: Equan Choi | Stars: Na Eun-kyeong, Jeon Ji-ae, Seo Ji-hye, Hyeon-kyeong Lim
Votes: 1,715
57. One Missed Call (2003)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata
Votes: 19,314
58. Scissors (1991)
R | 105 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a corpse of the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She tries to hang on to reality when objects around her seem to come to life.
Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: Sharon Stone, Steve Railsback, Ronny Cox, Michelle Phillips
Votes: 3,241 | Gross: $0.00M
59. El hombre de la bolsa (2010 Video)
13 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Late at night, brother and sister ride the elevator with their father. Suddenly, the lights go off, and the box gets stuck between two floors. In the dark. Unable to get any help, the ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Cristiani | Stars: Valentino Alonso, Iván Espeche, Julia Perette, Laura Soifer
Votes: 25
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