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niall-fray 2012-05-25 08:14:54

By no means a masterpiece, But not Complete Rubbish.

We live in a world were Film's, Game's and TV shows are meant to makeyou think, and be confusing. Examples of theses would be Neon GenisisEvangelion, Inception and the Half-life games. They have confusingstory's but can all be eventually explained.Then you have Films's, Game's and TV Shows which attempt this and don'tmake the plot confusing because its well written, But because itspoorly written. Examples of this would be the Matrix Trillogy, The Lostseason Finally and this Film.Now a film based on a Metal Band, i didn't expect a strong plot. Butinstead I got a complex plot that was not fully explained andmysterious. This has (obvously) made many people rate this film down.So its Plot/story isn't the strongest. But thats no reason to rate thisfilm down. Its special effects are good; The Lordi costume's makeperfect demons. The acting isn't brilliant but is good enough and somemoments are kinda creepy.So if you watch this film expect some good, B-move'ish horror withdecent special effects and acting. The story may be lacking inexplanations and may annoy you but just enjoy it. Its not such ahorrible film. Remember its based on a metal band. And its miles betterthan other music artist based films (For instance Moonwalker and Coolas Ice) So I give it an 8/10. Worth a watch.

ronevickers 2012-05-24 17:37:05

Do yourself a big favour.......

.......................and give this awful movie a big miss! If youdecide to watch it, you'll end up wasting 87 minutes of your life -it's frankly that BAD!! It's slow, ponderous, irritating, weaklyscripted and acted, with a nonsensical storyline that simply goesnowhere, only not very fast. You keep waiting for a development in thestory, but none ever arrives, and the film seems to drag interminably.In fact, the whole thing is a mess, and turns out to be one of the mostunsatisfying experiences you will ever have in the world of movies.It's virtually impossible to find any redeeming features in this wholesorry effort. Avoid at all costs!!

Emomovieluver 2012-05-23 23:02:46

Definitely one of the better movies...

When compared to some other movies born from the imagination of amusician, "DF" rates much higher than most.To start this review off right... Big props to Lions Gate for againkicking off yet another quality series of indi or foreign horror moviesthat might well have never gotten release or had little to no notorietyhere in the US had it not been released by them. Like the After Darkfilms, Ghost House Pictures present little-known gems of low budgethorror film making with granted mix results but at least they're giventheir just chance to make it.Though this was the 2nd of the 8 Ghost House Pictures releases Iwatched, it was the most impressive so far and in my mind is one of themore successful movies done by someone in another business theincomparable Mr. Lordi. For example of an excruciatingly awful film bya rock star you need go no further than Bret Michaels' untra-lame "ALetter From Death Row". "DF" goes much further than expected with it'sgenuinely creepy production design, effective special FX andatmospheric musical score.Worth a look.

2012-05-23 10:17:00

Dark Floors

A father and his invalid daughter are trapped in a deserted hospital along with several other strangers as the dark hallways come to life with gruesome demons. DARK FLOORS is a stagnant haunted hospital tale that never gets off the ground. It feels like a scrapbook of more successful Horror features butchered in to a single incoherent film where the characters just wander about the halls aimlessly for over an hour. When the occasional demon does appear, the characters are rarely frightened or even stunned. The decayed hospital setting is sufficiently creepy, but the only workable elements of the entire film lie in the creature FX and costuming of the demons themselves. Considering the costumes belonged to the Shock Rocker band Lordi, and that the film was initially conceived as a poor excuse to mass market the band on the international market, it cant even take credit for these creations. DARK FLOORS proves to be a bland, uninspired, and unoriginal Horror film that relies far too heavily on the strength of its villains while forgetting about minor elements like character or plot. -Carl ManesI Like Horror Movies

2012-05-18 20:58:46

Stark bores.

Dark Floors (Pete Riski, 2008)I had no idea this flick was subtitled "The Lordi Motion Picture" until I was about thirty minutes into it, bored, and looking it up on IMDB. I originally committed it to the DVR because Philip Bretherton is in the cast list; I'm an unrepentant As Time Gos By fanboy, and if a member of the principal cast shows up in anything, I'll watch it. Let me save you the trouble: he's actually in the movie for less than five minutes. Just a bit too long to be called a cameo, but nowhere near enough for the fourth billing he gets. So, yeah, five minutes of Alistair Deacon vs. eighty-five minutes of a second-rate Gwar knockoff. You tell me if it's worth it.Plot: Ben (28 Days Later...'s Noah Huntley) is at the hospital with his daughter Sarah (the Pillars of the Earth's Skye Bennett), who's autistic, for some routine tests when things start going weird. First, after a power fluctuation, the MRI machine Sarah is in catches on fire. Then, on the way back to the room, a schizophrenic old man, whose name, we later learn, is Tobias (Never Say Never Again's Ronald Pickup), stops them in the hallway, whispers something into Sarah's ear, and seems to bless her. Despite the urging of her nurse, Emily (Moon's Dominique McElligott), Ben decides he wants to take Sarah home rather than keeping her in the hospital to complete the tests. When they get on the elevator, Emily in tow, they're joined by Tobias and a guard, Rick (Alien 3's Leon Herbert), and a hospital executive, Jon (Aliens' William Hope). When the power fluctuates again, trapping them in between floors, something happens; when it comes back on, the elevator dumps them off on the sixth floor instead of in the lobby, and the hospital is deserted. Except for them... and a bunch of interdimensional monsters who want something from them, played by members of the band Lordi (in their usual makeup).This is all well and good, and that's a surprisingly competent cast when you think about it. But the plot of the movie ends up being defined by the band's mythology, which kinda makes sense if you think about it (that the movie is defined by it, not the mythology itself... which I assume was the product of a great deal of ingested licit and illicit substances). Which also wouldn't necessarily be a problem. Worldbuilding is done, and done well, in movies all the time. But no explanation is given here. Whether the assumption was that no one but Lordi fans would see the movie or that those who saw it wouldn't care what was going on I don't know, but it had to be one of them. Why? Unless you're familiar with the band's mythology, what happens in this movie makes not a lick of sense. And even those casually familiar with it (e.g., me) may have a hard time following along.As well, this is, you know, supposed to be a horror movie. That would be stretching the case a little. Did you watch the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries version of The Stand fifteen-ish years ago? Remember towards the beginning, when Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) tries to get out of the hospital after everyone else has bought it? In the book, that scene is kinda terrifying, but in the miniseries, it's more about determination and perseverance; it's sad, but it's not scary. You can say the same of the hospital journey in this movie, as long as you retool the definition of "sad" to be closer to "pathetic". *

Ecto Loki 2012-05-18 08:49:05

Multi-dimensional at least...

My expectations of this picture were admittedly pretty low butactually, elements of it were not too bad and it at least requires theviewer to think about the possible meaning of what they are watching.While the script was lame in places, on the whole it was acceptable andthe acting was pretty solid all-round (as in not obviously awful!). Theworst aspect of the film for me was not the lack of explanation as towhat was going on - something that I know annoyed a lot of people - butrather the fact that the monsters, ghosts, etc were representations ofthe members of the band Lordi. I know this was a Lordi film and it'spretty obvious why this was done but it made the film a lot less creepythan it could otherwise have been. The end of the film was slightly disappointing for me, not because ofwhat happened but because it's attempt at an explanation of theprevious events was weak and half-hearted. If you're going to end afilm in that way at least do it with some conviction and a little moreclarity than was offered here! Anyway, many seem to have struggled to understand this film and as muchas I have tried to understand it, it doesn't actually make a great dealof sense to me either but for what it's worth here is myinterpretation:Bear with me!The girl dies twice. The first time is in the machine at hospital. Shethen somehow returns to life and comes out of the machine in a criticalcondition, albeit unknown to the hospital staff. Her cries for the 'redcrayon' represent her fear of death and the sense of danger andconfusion which she feels. Her father later tucks her into a hospitalbed (with no nurses present?!) at which point she dies (again) shortlyafterwards. The following events take place, in my opinion, inside thegirls head at the points between her two deaths, although triggered byher ultimate second death. Before her second and final death she isspoken to by Tobias although we cannot hear what he says to her. Tobiasis also about to die, an event which she senses, due I suppose to herfirst brush with death. Confusing eh... The death of Tobias is imaginedby the girl (in her own death-state)inside the elevator which stops, atthe limbo point between floors 6 and 7. 6 representing Hell and 7 beingHeaven. Time seems to stop at this point too, although it would makemore sense if time stopped at the point before the girls death as shelay in the hospital bed. Anyway, upon exiting the elevator they headdown the stairs and effectively descend (throughout the film) lowerinto the depths of Hell although the girl keeps breaking away from thecrowd as she tries to lead them upwards rather down, only her own fearand confusion all the while is not enough to convince the others thatshe knows the way - I think! Anyway, Tobias is dead yet alive whichexplains his link to the girl who is in a similar situation - both ofthem kind of in limbo at this point I suppose. Events now overlap eachother because in effect time has stopped and things are unfoldingoutside of time. The Lordi Monsters are demons who attempt to take thegirls soul for their own and keep her in Hell. They try to trick thefather into thinking he must let her go, but in the end the fact thathe never gives up on her is what saves her. In the finale he leaves herin a safe place and goes to fight the huge demon in an attempt to savehis daughter. As it turns out he never has to face the demon, the factthat he sacrificed himself for her is enough to save her - it is thisact of love which gives her the strength to resist the clutches of Helland escape the demon. She then enters life again at the point of herawakening from her first death. She now has conquered her fear andconfusion of her impending death, comforted by the love she feels fromher father and his selfless act of sacrifice - hence the 'blue crayon'.Blue of course representing calm and tranquility. We now hear whatTobias says to her - that he no longer feels cold - his way of tellingher not to be scared. What I presume follows is that she again dies hersecond and final death in the hospital bed, only now she will make itto heaven. Her calmness will also put her father at ease after herdeath and make him feel she was at peace.Well, that's about the closest I can get to making sense out of itanyway! Hope you followed my logic - however tenuous it may have beenat times. I would have given Dark Floors a higher rating if it hadn'tbeen for the lame monsters and also if it had been made slightly lessdifficult to make sense out of as I think it would have been to thefilms credit to so. While it is great to let the audience think forthemselves and not spell everything out for them, I feel a film of thistype really needs to meet it's audience halfway as the consequence ofnot doing so gives the appearance of a somewhat senseless and mangledpiece of work. I'm just not sure one should have to work quite so hardto find the meaning in a movie of this nature.

2012-05-17 23:01:21

Where Did All The People Go?...

DARK FLOORS takes a group of normal people in a hospital, and plunges them into a supernatural nightmare of horror and death. With plenty of cool monsters / demons, along w/ a screaming banshee of doom, DF is a nasty little trip through the spook-house! The characters are believable, even in unbelievable circumstances. The autistic girl is especially good, w/ an air of mystery and just a bit of creepiness. Hats off to LORDI for making this one of the better GHOSTHOUSE UNDERGROUND releases...

flamewall 2012-05-17 16:12:39

The main problem with this is that it is a Finnish film (for Finns at least)

I got to say that i went to see this movie with low expectations. Ididn't believe that a Lordi movie could be good because i actuallycouldn't imagine it as a whole. Though, after i saw the movie i wasamazed at how well the writers and the director pulled it off.It is often said that horror is the most delicate type of movie becausethere is only a slight difference between scary and ridiculous. butthis doesn't concern Dark Floors because it is not (atleast in my mind)a full blooded horror movie. The movie has many horror elements butdoesn't still come off as horrorish. That doesn't make it bad it justmeans that you can't go in to the theater wishing that you will bescared out of your nickers.The visual and audio feel of the movie was excellent all the way andthere is nothing anyone can say about that. The plot did leave aannoying amount of plot holes and the ending didn't really clear any ofthem up and the viewer was just left to quess what the plot was allabout. Still it didn't bother half as much as the under use of theLordi band members. I have never liked Lordi and never listened to thembut while watching this movie i became interested in the differentmonsters they play. Sadly, the plot did hardly nothing at all to usethe unique backgrounds and looks of the different ghoul part from thedifferent superpowers they all demonstrated. What i am saying is that iwould have liked this movie to be more about the monsters than thevictims... really who gave a goddamn thing for what happened to the allknowing copper or the businessman type. The only character i got even abit curious was the weird hobo with superpowers and a weird telepathicrelationship with the girl but he is never explained in any way(a bigmistake).In retrospect i think they could have done a lot more better but i alsothink that there is a lot of good in this film also and i hope it willbe a success financially. There is just one thing Finns can't tolerate:a successful Finnish movie if it is not a drama.

scarletheels 2012-05-10 06:54:20

Wha? Huh?

I love cheesy horror flicks. I don't care if the acting is sub-par orwhether the monsters look corny. I liked this movie except for thebewildered feeling all the way from the beginning of the film to thevery end. Look, I don't need a 10 page dissertation or a sign with bigletters explaining a plot to me. But Dark Floors takes the "what isthis movie about?" thing to a whole new (annoying) level. What IS thismovie about?This isn't exceptionally scary or thrilling but if you have an hour anda half to kill and/or you want to end up feeling frustrated andconfused, rent this winner.

2012-05-09 17:13:06

Some points of the movie

Some points to help understand the movie.I believe it is similar to ground hog day, where sarah is living thesame nightmare over and over. Somehow the old man is connected to sarahin this. He changes from not feeling cold when he whispers, to sarah tobeing "undead" when the elevator gets stuck between 6 and 7. He says inthe elevator "not 6 not 7 not hell and not heaven" this sort ofexplains where the nightmare takes place i.e. in a place between helland heaven, where time stands still.I cant think of what is causing the ground hog effect, other than thenew untested medication they are giving to sarah The end of the movieis the beginning of another nightmare, only this time sarah wants ablue crayon, everything is fine until she realises she is relivinganother nightmare when the old man whispers in her ear.

2012-05-09 14:05:05

Slightly better than awful

There are some elements that save this movie from being a totalcatastrophe, but are overshadowed with bad acting, plot holes, deus exmachina thrown ins, stupid dialogs, weak script, and predictableclichés...What we have here is a horror movie with a storyline that goes nowherefor most of the time. A group of unlikely heroes including a black guythat gets it first (yeah, that cliché seems to be still very much aliveeven in Finland), seem to have trouble trying to exit a mysteriouslyempty hospital. There are shrieking ghosts (very imaginative), zombies(at one point I thought at least they didn't use zombies, but theycame), and Finnish glam-rock band with demonic make-up on, getting intheir way. There is also some time-shift doodle present, but it adds upnothing to the storyline. Autistic girl and a hobo seem to have somedeeper understanding of a situation, but they never spell it out to theviewer, or their confused friends. Their lines consist only of profoundlife lesson thoughts like: "What happens will happen..." or "Lightcan't live in the darkness..." or the ominous "I need a red crayon...red crayon." So all this characters (including worried father and sweetdoctor in distress types) end up doing is running around them darkfloors, and from or mistakenly to the demons. Occasionally a ghost or agroup of zombies show up, and if it seems a demon keyboardist can'tspot a group of six people coming towards it, waving a flashlight andconversing, it was just pretending. And apparently this demon can breakthrough walls without much hassle, but opening elevator door is beyondits capabilities.In the end we even get a "it was all a dream" sequence twist. Or maybeit wasn't. Oh, boy I wish this movie was, and that kind that makes timeseem to move faster so it all plays out in just 10 minutes or so...

omex_uk 2012-05-09 04:12:36

good but bad ?

the start of the film was great. All in an elevator, trapped in ahospital that resembles hell, which is also playing on many peoplesfears of hospitals as a whole.right just to get this out in the open, I'm a student in the UK and iwould like to aspire to be a director. i thought the direction of this movie was great, nice slow pans hereand there, not to many over the top tracking camera movements and thelighting was spot on. as for the set dressing again a really good job.it actually felt like an old decayed hospital. plus the time laps bitswere a really nice touch but for me the bad points out way the good. first off what the F%£k was with lordi, i mean fair enough its "their"film but it just makes it so ridiculous. just cut them out of it andput some actual believable demons in it. pretty much what I'm trying tosay is STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT ONE BIG ADVERT - NO ONE CARES! second off the ending was shite, granted some people may love it andshower it with praise because it was "minimalist" but seriously? i justsat through 80mins of film i want some damn closure! GIVE ME CLOSURE!yeah yeah the colour of the crayon was different big whoop. to conclude, good work to all the crew. you made a good movie butplease just sort the ending out! PLEASE!

Daemon7 2012-05-01 01:42:53

Unexpectedly good movie

I don't know if the Lordi monsters are part of some Finnish legend, ifso then the movie would make more sense if I actually knew the legend.For me, Lordi is just the name of an unpleasant rock formation, whosemembers dress stupid, and that won the Eurovision contest withoutactually deserving it. So each time the monsters showed on screen , mybrain was automatically making the connection with a rock star with alot of make-up on. And on second thought , who on earth gets scarednowadays by a stupid screaming ghost or a ghoul with too many teeth...Luckily for this movie , the monster apparitions are pretty rare, andleave room for the rest of the things that make the movie actuallygood. Exquisite dark atmosphere reminding of Silent Hill, creepydeserted hospital, halls with bodies laying around (but not toobloody), lurking shadows, all these keep you wandering what's going tohappen next. The creepy little girl with long dark hair adds some spiceon several occasions (The Ring surly influenced a lot of movies...),and the time-space distortions(reminding me of Hypercube) are liketopping on an ice-cream. You don't actually need more of a backgroundstory , it's the atmosphere and the suspense that drive the movie, andthe ending , while not giving any explanation, it delivers the neededcomfort. No ending in the "to be continued" style ,like 90% of today'shorrors, no useless gore with some psycho killer chopping body partsfrom stupid teenagers, just one good fantasy horror/thriller. The onlything that messes the movie it's the Lordi , and if they would havecreated better monsers(13 Ghosts would be an example), with no rockband connection , this movie would have been much more appreciated.

2012-04-30 17:07:10

Brutally Bad

This movie was brutally bad. The dialog couldn't have been worse...didn't give the characters much to work with. Please, rent before you buy this stinker.

2012-04-28 00:59:14

I'm Still Looking For The "Dark" Part...

This review is from: Dark Floors (DVD) I've been a fan of Lordi for six years now, meaning that I was listening to their music long before they won Eurovision and gained international fame. Thus far, I have loved everything the band has done, including their 2004 short film, "The Kin". Needless to say, I was excited when the band first announced their plans to make a full-length horror movie. It made sense: of all the bands in the world, which would be better suited to make a movie about monsters than the Finnish ambassadors of shock rock? The film originally premiered in February 2008, but I endured an extra ten months for the DVD release. This proved a wise decision, as it turned out, for had I been in a theater, the monsters themselves would likely have come down to tell me to stifle my groans of disappointment.The story: Sarah (Skye Bennett, Against the Dark) is a little girl suffering from an unknown mental illness. When her father (Noah Huntley, 28 Days Later) attempts to remove her from the hospital, they and a group of strangers comprised of a benevolent nurse (Dominique McElligot, "On Home Ground"), a brave security guard (Leon Herbert, "The Paradise Club"), a paranoid commuter (William Hope, Aliens), and a disturbed homeless man (Ronald Pickup, "Waters of the Moon") find themselves trapped in the building as it undergoes a dark transformation and becomes filled with bloodthirsty monsters.I tried approaching this movie in different ways, trying to make it work for me. First, as a showcase for the band and their onstage personas; this didn't work, since the monsters have disappointingly little screentime. Secondly, as an '80s-style splatter film, since Lordi draw much of their inspiration from this medium; didn't work either, since there's very little blood and gore and, again, few monster moments. Finally, I tried to watch it as a movie that intentionally confused the audience, and this may work best since the film offers absolutely absolutely no enlightenment after leaving the audience in the dark for so long with the unexplained the twists, turns, and other weirdo plot elements. I'm left to believe that the filmmakers themselves lost track of what kind of story they were trying to tell, since the film is so convoluted and stingy in giving hints that would explain what's happening. It's been pointed out before, and I'll reinforce the complaint: there is no explanation as to why the hospital transformed, what the monsters are doing there, or what Sarah's condition is. Some aspects from "The Kin" are present - the manipulating of time and space and the horror of life after death - but they only make the film's plot a bigger mystery never to be solved. It's really frustrating, even for a fan.If you're counting on the fear of the unknown to tide you over, I'm afraid that the film isn't very scary, either. Reliance on cheap jolt scares are a death knell, seeing as there's nothing very frightening about slow-motion shots of windows and walls exploding. The monsters themselves also look very much out of place: with the exception of Awa and Lordi, their costumes don't even fit into the film's art design, and will have viewers who are unfamiliar with the band wondering if Kita's armor, OX's nose ring, or Amen's being a mummy have anything to do with the solution to the plot. The acting also needs help: even though they're playing cardboard characters you've seen in a thousand other horror movies, Hope, Herbert, and Pickup especially need to spend a few lessons with their acting coaches, and Skye Bennett will start annoying viewers before she arouses sympathy.I'm not sure if I can accurately express how disappointed I am in this movie. True, maybe I was foolish to expect anything great from a film made about a rock band (Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park should have taught me better), but for all that seems to have gone into its production, you'd think that they could have done just a bit better. Director Pete Riski should've known that he was not shooting a music video and Mr. Lordi should've known that fans were expecting more from him and his group than cameos and a poorly-composed plot. I'm afraid that the only folks who'll be interested in this film are fans of the band, but then again, like me, they too will be struggling to stay awake.

2012-04-27 13:04:49

WTF????

This is a confusing review for me to do, as I can not say the movie made any sense, but yet, somehow it's watchable and entertaining.A somewhat autistic girl comes out of a cat scan and for no apparent reason her, her father and a few others end up in the twilight zone as they become stuck in time/in a parallel universe/in a time loop... it's hard to decipher what the heck is going on. While they confront a ghost, demons ripped off of Predator and the Mummy and zombies while trying to find a way out of this dark hospital.Like I said, this movie made no sense to me, why it's happening, what the point of the ending is or if anything at all made any sense, and usually i'd rate a movie like that very low, but somehow, it was entertaining.

Lucy G 2012-04-23 21:10:08

Most retarded movie.

Ok so i only watched this movie because it was free on On Demand, and now I see why, no one would pay to see this movie and if they do then they must be retarded like the girl in the movie. The story was so dumb and confusing. It wasn't even scary either!!! Trust me do not see this movie.

deathdragonxx419 2012-04-23 13:15:52

I think i'll stick to Lordi's music

so the entire story is about a girl who's special in her own kinda way,and, as it happens, time repeats itself over and over again.......whata great story DUMBASSES!!! The acting was decent, i'll give the moviethat...but the plot line and everything BUT the acting was the biggestdisappointment since....well i cant really say 'cause i'll get a lottaheat. Lordi makes some damn good music, in my opinion, and I think theyshould STAY with music. I'm sure that someone somewhere loved themovie, but they probably also like Once Upon a Time in Mexico and likeUnbreakable even better.I have to say that this movie would have been a hellova lot better ifthey woulda made an actual storyline and gave the "Demons" (as i callthem) some sort of background as to why they're there, why they wantthe girl, and WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!

2012-04-23 10:02:47

a strange odyssey through the hospital...

Dark Floors (2008) is a Finnish supernatural horror thriller, that takes you on a weird journey through the wards of a hospital. The story is atmospheric, and the special effects are mostly well executed, but the plot is slow moving, and a bit all over the place, as the characters make their way through what appears to be an alternate reality. Director Pete Riski and Tomi Putaansuu, better known as "Mr. Lordi", came up with the story. Lordi, and his four bandmates in the metal band Lordi, appear in the film as malevolent ghosts, demons, or monsters. A young girl named Sarah (Skye Bennett) is a patient in a hospital, and after an accident occurs while she is having an MRI, her father Ben (Noah Huntley), decides to take her home in the middle of the night. Wheeling Sarah in a wheelchair, Ben enters an elevator on the eighth floor, as Emily (Dominique McElliot) a nurse, attempts to talk him out of leaving. Riding down with several other passengers, something strange occurs and the car jerks to a stop. Eventually the doors open on the sixth floor, which appears to be deserted. The setting is quite eerie, as the group sees no one, until they encounter a woman with her eyes gouged out. Retreating in fear, they enter a stairwell, and move down one floor to the fifth, which is also deserted. Acting as a group, these people are remarkably clueless, and Ben is continually losing track of his daughter. When a ghost suddenly appears, Rick (Leon Herbet) a security guard, fires his gun with no effect, as the group heads down to the fourth floor. Breaking from the pack, Jon (William Hope) attempts to take an elevator down, but is attacked and wounded by some kind of monster, before being rescued by the others. It appears that Sarah is somehow the key to the strange events. The survivors continue to work their way downwards to try and reach safety, but a deadly journey lies ahead for those who manage to stay alive. Dark Floors is a fantasy where anything can happen, but with a freehand to do almost anything, the direction the story takes is somewhat disappointing. Even after seeing what they have seen, these people are trudging along with no sense of urgency to get out, seemingly unafraid for their lives. Putting his daughter's life in the wrong hands, Ben is a guy with questionable judgment, and major problems maintaining focus on the task at hand. Watching him gets to be increasingly frustrating, as he's painfully slow to react, and is kind of a bungler. The film would be more effective if a solid emotional connection was established with Sarah, but she remains mostly a mystery, and a person that is difficult to really care about. You might expect that some endearing quality might emerge about her, but it just doesn't happen. While things seem to end well, it's hardly uplifting. Dark Floors is a slow moving atmospheric thriller with good production values, that for better or worse, features each of the members of the band Lordi to fairly good effect. A reoccurring element involving loops in time, doesn't seem to add much to a story that is a more than a little obscure.

Geminate 2012-04-23 01:24:40

Surprisingly Good!

I was expecting some grainy low-budget video with lots of shaky-cam andLordi thrown in there to somehow make it legitimate. I was completelywrong and glad for it! Dark Floors required a large budget andthankfully it shows - professional through and through.Horror defined here: light on gore, heavy on decaying dead and undead,suspense, terror, confusion and MONSTERS! Dark Floors unfolds well and has excellent continuity. I especiallyenjoyed the attention to detail as each progressive floor became moreand more aged and dilapidated.True, the ending was predictable but the ride was well choreographedand fun.