Dark Floors
Dark Floors
R | 08 February 2008 (USA)
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A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.

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tiskec

**Please BE INFORMED THAT THIS REVIEW CONTAINS A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF SPOILERS. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE, I WOULD RECOMMEND WATCHING IT BEFORE YOU READ THIS REVIEW. THANK YOU.**Interesting, is the least that could be said. The movie starts out in this hospital, where this guy's daughter is getting an MRI on her brain, due to some dysfunction of some sort. Then, the hospital staff just ups and decides to put her on new medications without the father's consent. At this point in the movie, the script really bugged me. The sincerity in the people was lacking. All the dad did for his daughter was complain to the nurse after she told him that by not taking them at the right time, she could die. Either he didn't give much of a crap, or what? That's when my connections to the characters started to fade. All of a sudden, in an elevator that the dad, little girl, nurse, and a handful of other people, including this guy Tobias, were on broke down. Now apparently after getting off the elevator, these people were transported to a point of a standstill in time. They were on the line between two dimensions. Then it was brought to my attention that the little girl and Tobias were the only ones that knew what was going on. The monsters in the new time stasis didn't want anything to do with Tobias. I think it was because he was dying. Again, the movie fails to tell us this. They end up running into themselves in this time loop. In fact, they pretty much are following themselves as separate people throughout the hospital. The "others" are them about 30 min in the future. So, I took it as a never ending circle of time. I was so confused at this point.It turns out throughout this whole time era; the monsters are all after the little girl. Apparently there's something special about her they like. Yet again, nothing is explained about that either, other than the fact that she knows what's going on. Finally, at the end of the movie, some big demon emerges from the blackness. I don't know if it was supposed to be the devil, or just some messed up monster. It isn't exactly clear what happened to the little girl either. It showed her walking towards it. Then the scene shifts back to the point just after her MRI. What in the holy hell happened? Was it her facing death, or was it a dream? I couldn't even begin to tell you.To sum things up, this movie was okay. It had its moments. However, there was a very poor connection to the characters, and major plot holes throughout the story-line. I would give this movie a [ 2.9 / 5 ] (D+)

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Dick Pickman

I was not in on the joke, I didn't realize the "Heavy Metal Demons" were played by a real heavy metal band. Well that's just great, if you are a Lordi fan and want to see your buddies in a scary movie. (Like "Kiss Meets The Phantom".) That seems like the whole reason this movie was made. When I was a kid I watched "Monster Dog" because Alice Cooper was in it. Other than that this movie was pretty much nonsense, with standard horror movie character types doing the standard horror movie clichés without any other motivation than "it's in the script." The Barrel-Chested Black Cop dies in an act of heroism before we even get to know him and don't try to tell me that's a spoiler! You know he's going to die in an act of heroism as soon as he appears on screen. We have the Old Guy Who Knows Things who is useless since the story makes no sense. We have the Despicable Guy who we don't mind seeing get killed. He deserves to die and he does. Of course we get the Competent Loving Single Father with the slightly creepy innocent little girl who appears to be a conduit for evil, and the Nice Nurse who is also a single mom. (Duh!) The movie is competently made with adequate atmosphere and special effects, but is never scary or suspenseful in the least. When the movie was over I had no idea what it was about. But how often do you get to see a Scandinavian horror movie?

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broholcombe

Stupidest movie I've ever forced myself to watch. Great visual effects but you don't establish any connections with any of the characters. Its like all this stuff is going on in the movie but you don't know why. It just starts to happens and develop abruptly without any meaning. What is the point of this movie? Even to be entertaining, movies need a reason or a plot. The characters all act bewildered but they seem to be "OK" with that. This movie just "happens" and the ending is just plain stupid. The main character doesn't say more than one sentence at a time and it's incoherent at best. No rhyme or reason. It seems like quite a bit of money was wasted on a pointless movie.

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fedor8

"I want the red crayon, I want the red crayon". I want a coherent script and intelligent dialogue, but I don't go whining about it. By the time she said that for the 28th time, I just wanted someone to stick a red crayon up her ***.So they leave the elevator and… guess what. The nurse says "where is everybody?" The problem is that she says it a mere second after the elevator doors open. It's not exactly unusual to not see anyone in the corridors of a hospital the moment an elevator door opens on one of its floors. To make things worse, it wasn't even a "dark floor", at least not yet. So why was she telegraphing the plot to us in advance? Perhaps the director should have told her too keep her mouth shut and spit out her line a minute later, not straight away. Ts, ts, ts. Actors. A lot of them need everything drawn for them. They really are like parrots, all they can do is memorize lines, the rest has to be left to Lady Luck.A little later our motley crew of walking human movie stereotypes find a woman with her eyes gouged out. Then the black guard gets shot at. But what does the nurse do? She drones on about the girl's medication! That's kind of like being on a sinking ship but worrying whether the eggs you ate an hour earlier were fresh or not. Who wrote this crap???Minutes later, the first Lordi appears, unscary and silly-looking, in the best Finnish horror-film slapstick tradition. The businessman is under attack from the drummer. So what would YOU do to save a person from a drummer dressed as a cheap B-movie ogre in an elevator? Well, you hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher, naturally. I mean the man, not the drummer-monster. You think I'm kidding? Watch the movie.What is it anyway with old hobos and little girls in wheelchairs that makes them have a connection with the spiritual world, while the rest of us just tap in the dark? The movie is filled with clichés of this type, such as the annoying, whiny businessman stereotype. Why is he a businessman? Because he works for a corporation and we all know corporations are so very evil, especially the ones that make all that food that we eat, that keep us all from starving, and all those corporations that make medicines that cure us, and furniture that we buy and use in our homes. Corporations are so very evil and despicable, hence anyone in a suit and tie who works for one is an immoral, selfish moron. Isn't that what the Left-wing Manual For Spreading Retarded Propaganda In Movies says clearly in Chapter 3?Naturally, the girl's Dad, a confused, dull and not-too-bright sort-of hero, doesn't trust the businessman, and yet he leaves his daughter with him, all alone. Duh. But I did say he wasn't too bright. Perhaps the director molded Dad after himself? It's simply never a good idea to have a ghost go after the living, while yelling "aaaaaah". It's kind of old. I don't even think kids get scared by it anymore. The Red Crayon girl certainly didn't care. She seemed disinterested and detached, kind of like most of the viewers watching this malarkey. In fact, she looked downright depressed. I guess they need to hand out more chocolate to kids on bad-movie sets.An even worse idea is to get a monster that looks like the lead singer of that pop band Lordi. No, wait. Those clowns ARE Lordi. Oh, Lordy! So what exactly was the point of this inept little attempt at horror-film-making? The greedy, untalented, masked pseudo-metal dweebs could have simply made a 4-minute video clip for MTV like everybody else, instead of torturing us with this 80-minute drivel just so we could get to hear their awful kiddie song in the end-credits. I had no idea this junk was a Lordi project, or I would have left it sitting in that barely visited torrent.The conclusion of the movie is… Hang on. Which conclusion? This movie doesn't have an ending, unless you consider Lordi band members melting into tar an ending. If you consider the Red Crayon girl babbling incoherently as a conclusion, then it does have a conclusion. DF merely sets up a seen-it-all-before baloney mystery and then refuses to address it, even to hint at an inkling of clue of an explanation. The singer's bum-mask could write a script such as this, within a half-hour. In fact, something tells me it might have. This flick was written by dead matter, either way.The movie's best line: "When you were gone, I didn't understand what she said but she spoke clearly and didn't repeat herself." That makes a lot of sense. Kudos to the brains who came up with that one. Ed Wood is jealous. He is fuming.

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