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Down (2001)
A series of strange faults and odd behaviour by the elevators in the Millennium Building begins to turn sinister when a group of pregnant women are subjected to intense heat which causes them to give birth. Amid increasing media interest, two repairmen from the Meteor Elevator Company – Mark Newman (Marshall) and Jeffrey (Thal) - arrive to investigate but can find nothing wrong. Soon afterwards, however, a blind man and his guide dog are killed and a trespassing skater is swallowed up by the elevator, blown out onto the top floor and catapulted out of the window to his death. Clearly, something is awry and Mark begins to investigate, assisted and hindered by tabloid journalist Jennifer Evans (Watts). He begins to uncover a link between the elevator's behavior and the shadowy research department at Meteor Elevators headed by German scientist Steinberg (Ironside).
| Release Date: | September 6th, 2001 |
| Running Time: | 111 minutes |
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Believe it or not this is actually a remake of a 1983 film called "The Lift." That title would not translate easily to America, so writer/director Dick Mass, who wrote and directed both films, renamed it The Shaft and set it in Manhattan instead of the Netherlands. Maybe he named it The Shaft as Shaft was already taken,...
(complete Down review by Movie Addict)
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