Down (re-titled The Shaft on US releases) is a 2001 science fiction horror film written and directed by Dick Maas and starring James Marshall, Naomi Watts, and Eric Thal.

Watts plays the role of pushy journalist Jennifer Evans, and Marshall is Mark, an elevator repairman and former Marine.

The movie was mainly filmed in the Netherlands, although the crew briefly visited New York City and the District of Columbia as well for exterior shots.

The film was funded by Nederlands Fonds, and produced by First Floor Features and AVRO, with post-production by Sapex Scripts.

It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2001, and was released direct to video in the United States two years later.

The two guards from the beginning of the film discover the dog's corpse hanging from its collar on a shaft support.

During the same day, a roller skater is sucked into an elevator in the parking garage and shot from the 86th floor of the building to his death.

Instead, they go to Evans' office and look up a man named Gunther Steinberg, who had been experimenting with organic reproducing computer chips using dolphin brains.

When Jennifer and Mark arrive, they are shocked to hear that the police have concocted a story that has Jeff being a terrorist and being behind the incidents and assure the public that the threat is over.

Meanwhile, Jennifer and Mark discover a recent suicide could be linked to the incidents, as his extremely superstitious widow believes his soul has returned to punish others.

Mark manages to get into the Millennium Building and discovers a large bio-chip in the form of a brain in an elevator shaft.

As Mark tries to destroy the organ a third time, the police enter, giving Steinberg the opportunity to hold Jennifer hostage.