Too much of everything

So much average

How sad is this?

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Getting off an elevator at a hospital, a small group of visitors find themselves trapped in a nightmarish parallel dimension where they are assaulted by deadly demons intent on using one of them for their devilish plans.This one turned out to be quite the utterly enjoyable effort. What really works well for this one is the central location being the appropriately creepy and chilling location such a hospital should be, and the atmosphere is creates here is quite impressive. The big scenes that come from exploiting this dreadful atmosphere comes off just as creepy where the situation itself, disembarking an elevator to an empty floor after a rather eventful trip in the first place, the entire place in complete disarray around the emptiness and finding the creepy inhabitants prowling the corridors works so well due to that atmosphere which sets up the later scenes in here. There's even more great pats here as in the later staircase encounter with the rattling noises following them to the site of flashlights on the lower floors which then gets the big shock of the reverberating gunshot for a rather chilling scene as well as other great demon encounters in elevators, endless corridors or throughout the various levels of the facility where this has big scenes in the nurses office or down in the parking garage. These scenes provide such an impressive set-up and base for the rather creepy look of the demons here to make those haunting work as it's creepy figures in a creepy location which always works well in such a situation as this manages such a fantastic pace with all the rather impressive scenes coming along so that there's a really enjoyable pace along the way here which is always useful in such films. Overall, these here are more than enough positives to hold off the film's single biggest flaw that comes into play here, which is the total cluelessness of nearly everything in here. This one offers no explanations for all of the important features here, which starts at the beginning with the reasoning for how the group initially appears in that parallel world, as though it's expected the cause is the elevator yet there's nothing there about it for sure which tends to really cast too much doubt onto this one. The fact that there's no real explanation for how the film's main set-up occurs is pretty problematic, and leads into the rationale for the whole film as it offers nothing about why the girls is needed for their plans. We never really get the importance of her or even why the creatures take others when they're not needed and getting to her would've been quite easy. All of these are brought up simply to buy into the general premise and actions of the film which is why they're so problematic here. Even with a somewhat goofy tone in the second half as they're being stuck in the other dimension with the demons that feels out of place, there's still not enough to really hold this down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and minor themes of children-in- jeopardy.

I heard that this was a film with the band Lordi in, so put off watching it, though was curious.With curiosity eventually getting the better of me, I was surprised by the high production values of what was on the screen, though the story was non-existent and once the band starting showing up in their daft monster costumes, those production values had been for nought.If you're wondering what it's all about, well, so was I, and 53 minutes into the film, neither myself nor the actors were any the wiser. I didn't know how much longer the film went on and couldn't be bothered holding down the forward button to see how it ended, because I'd grown bored with it all before the half an hour mark.I guess the lesson to be learnt from this is that producers shouldn't make films based on the ideas of bad metal bands who dress up like Iron Maiden's mascot, and that viewers shouldn't waste their time on it.

Dark Floors is visually and technically brilliant but all the other things that make a good movie are lacking. Firstly there's no plot, or if there is it's very linear and not enough to make a movie. It's more like a TV movie or some horror series episode than full length feature.Secondly it is very unoriginal as it copies Silent Hill themes and storyline shamelessly. It's just Silent Hill with Lordi's monsters.Thirdly as there is not much of a story and there isn't plausible characters either. They just wander around the hospital floors and very frequently get stuck in an elevator and run away from monsters that are not so scary. The lack of direction is obvious and i think that the blame can't be put on the actors.In overall this movie seems to be a collection of wasted ideas and possibilities to make a meaningful film. It's disappointing as it is to see a film with well made atmospheric audio, sets and just about everything else than a plausible plot. I'm not even particularly harsh on horror films in general but this movie just is what it is.The Finnish cinema doesn't have much of a horror movie tradition but i certainly don't wish them to make another "fake-hollywood" film. It won't work.I think the fans of Lordi might enjoy this film but for everyone else it's completely skippable.

Eurovision Song Contest winners Lordi take part in their own film. It really could have been done without them, they just take on the roles of some ghosts and demons. It's typical stuck in a twisty, turny place hokum. Unexplained stuff happens, some of which is later explained, some that isn't. The jumps and set pieces were pretty decent, and it didn't come off as some kind of vanity project. In fact, Lordi's costumes made for creatures outside of your usual horror film. I'm bored of the usual spectres or CGI rotting ghosts. Shot with confidence and skill Dark Floors wont impress everybody, or anybody for that matter. But it will appease some of the genre fans.