Risto Kupsala The setup of Dark Floors is intriguing. Everything happens in a hospital where a mixed group of strangers (a desperate father and his sick, retarded daughter Sarah, a likable nurse, a heroic guard, an old tramp called Tobias and a suitcase carrying businessman) get trapped in an elevator because of a power failure. When they get out at floor 7, they find out that things have become abnormal. All other people have disappeared and there seems to be something evil lurking in the empty corridors. They have to get downstairs fast because the girl needs medicine urgently. So they begin their journey down the building, one floor after another, and every floor is darker, more decayed and more menacing than the previous one.Dark Floors is a well-made movie. All the actors play their characters well and friendship as well as enmity develops between them. The hospital environment is credible. Every floor looks more decayed than the previous one. The monsters are menacing and they provide enough thrills and chills. The story is well-paced and the mystery unfolds in a way that keeps you wanting to know more.Unfortunately Dark Floors has a very confusing storyline. Probably you won't understand it the first time and you might feel disappointed in the end. Small clues are given from time to time, especially by Tobias and Sarah, so listen closely what they say.It is also disappointing in a horror movie that the monsters have no motives. The film never explains why such dissimilar monsters as a ghost, a mummy, a space alien, a demon and a bunch of zombies terrorize the hospital. It shows that the movie was made around a rock band wearing monster masks.Despite the above mentioned shortcomings I like the movie and I have watched it several times.***Spoilers below***So what was it all about? The film should have been titled "Sarah's Recurring Nightmare" but then it would have been too obvious...In the beginning Sarah falls asleep in the brain scan machine. She is in the rapid eye movement phase of sleep, which is when dreams happen. She hears her father say "Hang on for another minute, baby!" The same line is repeated in the end of the movie, this time Sarah says it to her dying father. So it is all a dream that happens in that instant.The main theme of the movie is breaking out from vicious circles. Sarah is in a vicious circle of hospitalization and she doesn't seem to get any help, which drives her father to desperation. Due to her condition Sarah keeps on repeating the same thoughts. She also keeps on dreaming the same nightmare again and again. Other people get trapped there but only Tobias remembers it. Every floor is a new iteration in the vicious circle. Everything happens in parallel, in a time loop, in that instant.The dream keeps on repeating and decaying until darkness (personified by Lordi) swallows it completely -- except not this time. Sarah finally manages to break out, which is symbolized very subtly by the blue crayon that she is holding in the end.

backus1611-1 Look this is not that difficult to understand! I'll admit, I did read the posting that Lordi was a band and that they wear ridiculously silly monster costumes, and that the head goon (the completely un-terrifying monster in the garage (who looks more like a hamburger stand chef from the 70's than a monster) can control time etc. and the rest of the silly monsters hunt down loony Lordi's enemies; but even without that knowledge you can tell what's going on here. You can tell it's a fight of good v evil and that the girl in going through the fight several times (look at the two dead people who are huddled together in the hall and see a striking similarity to the nurse and dad. The one guy who knows what's going on is dead and keeps hanging around, the security guard died twice- yes that's probably him that's turned to dust in an earlier incarnation.Anyway, it's not a bad movie. I like the atmosphere and the scary- if you can really call them scary moments. But one thing the movie could benefit from is much less- MUCH LESS- air time for the silly monster band members. The only one they did right in the movie was the banshee, and by right I mean she was a ghost effect so you couldn't see completely how completely silly she looked. So, stick the band members in the shadows, up the scares (I mean they had no idea how to create a scare so instead, they just piled the corridors full of dead bodies), plus a little better acting and better lines (I mean some of the dialogue was so stupid and didn't even fit the scene) and you could have a movie worth seeing more than once.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain 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.

tyrantcomplex Okay, where do I start, The incoherent plot points that go nowhere?the cardboard cutouts posing as a cast? Take a deep breath and buckle yourself in because there is most certainly a crap storms a' brewin. From the get go we are bombarded with the fact that the main girl is A autistic and B has a condition, are we ever told what this condition is? nope, apparently the screen writers couldn't be bothered to web search for "diseases" and pull something out of their asses,but that is just the beginning of the laziness. This movie is like a spoiled child with a secret, it never seems to want to let you in on just what is going on, the cast has the main characteristic of being completely without character, making the viewer not give a damn when they are all inevitably killed. The whole time warp crap is there only to make it seem like there is a plot, I've read a theory as to why everything is happening look, 2001:A space odyssey deserves interpretation,this however is a poorly thought out schlock fest with no bite and no sense, the characters are fodder and the monsters are out of place and arbitrary. What vague semblance of coherency is lost the moment they introduce the "loop" idea and its a train wreck from then on in, plot points are brought up then dropped, idiocy abounds and the powers and vulnerabilities of the monsters are all over the place, they can take multiple rounds of handgun bullets without flinching but a bed cart will bowl them over no problem. The end is almost offensive with it re-looping the entire thing, don't bother unless your into mental abuse and all the razors in your house are dull.