Elevator Failure: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Devil]]'' is about five people who get trapped in an elevator by none other than the Devil himself, [[Lights Off, Somebody Dies|who slowly kills each one off]].

* In ''[[Die Hard]]'':

** Because {{spoiler|a bomb blew up the roof of the building}}, an elevator stops on the floor John McClane is on, with a little "ding", and instead of the doors opening the elevator explodes.

* In ''[[Earthquake]]'':

** An elevator in a highrise fails, and an aftershock knocks it off the rails, causing it to plummet, killing the passengers.

* The aptly named Romanian film ''Elevator'' is about two teenagers that get trapped in an abandoned warehouse elevator, with no one who can hear them and rescue them. {{spoiler|The movie ends with both characters hopelessly expecting to die inside.}}

* In ''[[Speed]]'', a man wires the cables on an elevator with explosives, blows them (while people are on the elevator), then wants $3 million or he blows the emergency brakes.

* ''[[The Towering Inferno]]'' has:

== Live Action TV ==

* In the ''[[Criminal Minds]] episode "Scared To Death", Reid, Morgan and Hotch are investigating an apartment. While Reid and Morgan ride an elevator, Hotch (wisely) takes the stairs. It gets stuck, and then proceeds to drop suddenly. They hit the emergency button, Morgan tries to pry the door open, Reid panics, and they both scream (well, Reid squeaks) for Hotch before it finally opens and they stumble out. Which can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMb_BC5ndTU here].

'''Reid''': I'll get back to you on that. }}

* One episode of ''[[Castle]]'' had the protagonist ([[It Makes Sense in Context|Who was paranoid about being cursed by an ancient Mayan Emperor at the time]]) get trapped in a broken elevator, which goes pitch black [[It Got Worse|and then creepily green.]]

* The ''[[iCarly]]'' episode ''iSaw Him First'' has the girls fighting over a guy, and at the end he gets fed up and leaves... accidentally stepping into an empty elevator shaft. Believe it or not, it's [[Played for Laughs]].

* On ''[[Friends]]'', Joey's character is killed off ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' when he falls down an elevator shaft. Of course, it's a soap opera, so he comes back to life.

** In another episode the Enterprise encounters a cosmic string fragment, causing massive damage throughout the ship. When it hits [[The Captain|Captain]] [[Patrick Stewart|Picard]] is in the turbolift with three children (a situation he wasn't exactly thrilled about to begin with), and the impact is so violent he breaks his leg. Later on they discover that one of the safety clamps has been damaged, forcing all four to climb out before the turbolift plummets to the bottom of the shaft.

* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Cory has a nightmare where he pushes all of his friends down an empty elevator shaft.

* ''[[Jam]]'' had a sketch where an office elevator breaks down, but because the security guard has a speech impediment, he isn't able to warn people in time and they all plunge screaming to their deaths.

{{quote|'''Rob''':"In (year), John Freeny laid these bricks. I want to wish you lots of luck, cause if you're reading this you're stuck!"}}

* In the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "CSI Unplugged", Hodges and Henry get stuck in the elevator when the lab and all of Las Vegas loses power.

* Ziva and McGee are trapped in the ''[[NCIS]]'' episode "Power Down".

* Bud takes the elevator not realizing it is malfunctioning in the ''[[JAG]]'' episode "Yeah Baby".

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