U.S. label Blue Underground has confirmed that it has acquired the distribution rights to Dick Maas' horror thriller
Amsterdamned (1988) and fantasy thriller
The Lift (1983). The two films will be released on Blu-ray in early 2017.
Amsterdamned
Synopsis: There is a serial killer at bay in Amsterdam's canal network and the race is on to stop him before mass hysteria grips the nation. Dick Maas's cult slasher movie starts as it means to go on when the predator leaves the protective habitat of the dark canal to claim his first victim before dragging her back into a watery grave. Starring Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, Serge-Henri Valcke, Tanneke Hartzuiker, Wim Zomer, and Hidde Maas.
The Lift
Synopsis: A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he and a nosy reporter begin asking questions of the lift company's electronics partner (Rising Sun Electronics), his boss puts him on a leave of absence. A subsequent visit to a professor leads them to believe that some evil experiments are being conducted with microchips. Starring Huub Stapel, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Josine van Dalsum, and Liz Snoyink.