15 Most Unlikely Horror Movie Villains

15. A Lift – The Lift

The killer lift in Dutch director Dick Maas’ 1983 sci-fi horror is no ordinary lift. Super high tech and equipped with a microprocessor constructed from mysterious organic matter, it’s a sentient lift with a lust for blood gone rogue. It’s basically the HAL 9000 of elevators.

Trouble is, there’s not much a lift – sentient or not – can really do apart from move up and down which thoroughly limits its murderous modus operandi. And like the movie’s tagline (‘Take the stairs, take the stairs, for god’s sake, take the stairs!!’) suggests, a killer lift is a situation that can be easily avoided.

Despite his motion-challenged villain not proving too threatening on his first attempt, Dick Maas once again tried to win over moviegoers with killer lifts in 2001 with his American remake Down, alternatively known as The Shaft (lol) but they weren’t convinced the second time around either.