The Three Acts: The initial tableaux: Father Ben and daughter Sarah are at a hospital getting sensitive tests run on her brain. The power fails, the machine adjusts, and Sarah freaks out. Ben decides to take Sarah somewhere else.Ben, Sarah, Nurse Emily, Security Guard Rick, salesman Jon, and mental patient Tobias take an elevator together. The power goes out again. They manage to get out on the fifth floor, which at first seems deserted.Delineation of conflicts: Sarah wants her red crayon. Ben wants her to be safe. Rick and Emily want to know what's going on. Jon wants to take his sample teddy bears and leave the building. Tobias seems to know they are in some sort of trouble, but does not communicate that well.There is some poltergeist activity (television, radio, telephones, fans), and their freedom of movement seems hampered. While in a stairwell, someone takes a shot at them, and grazes Rick's neck.Soon enough, it seems that something does not want them to leave. Tobias hints that the other four adults might know why this is. Again, his communication is oblique. Sarah draws things that no one else sees; ghostly images tantalize them; soon enough, tangible actions are observed.Resolution: This film follows several horror movie clichés. The ghosts/demons seem to be suffering or obsessed with an issue or two. The adult humans need to surface parts of their memories that pertain to that suffering. Will they be able to work out issues with the supernaturals?

Well, we don't get many Finnish horror films, so you'd hope that DARK FLOORS might be good, a low budget gem of a horror film perhaps. Sadly it turns out to be a rather predictable psychological horror with all manner of goofiness and not much in the actual way of quality to recommend it.It's essentially a single location thriller, a la CUBE, in which a disparate group of characters find themselves trapped in an abandoned hospital setting. Is this real life, or are they in somebody's nightmare? Are the ghosts and ghouls assailing them real, or hallucinations? To be honest, you won't really care, because this is all rather familiar and predictable.The ending twist is obvious from the beginning, so viewers are left with a simple 'ghost train' ride of a film. The heavy metal rock group Lordi are the guys behind this, and they show up in monster costumes throughout, which is all rather ridiculous, although not as ridiculous as the rubbishy CGI spook which keeps showing up and looks like something out of HARRY POTTER. There are some surprisingly good cast members here - a weary Ronald Pickup, PILLARS OF THE EARTH's Skye Bennett, and best of all an expertly acerbic William Hope (ALIENS) - but they're wasted in what is a middling film.

I watched it and I realized the biggest problem of this movie: It isn't scary at all. I like the band, Lordi, but their masks are not for horror movies. The location is fine for a horror movie and the actors are roughly okay,but there's no story I think... So many questions about the monsters: How did they get to the hospital? What the hell are these monsters? ... And at the end (spoiler!!!) when we realize: that all was just a dream, it loses all it's reality and we realize, that we lost more than an hour of our life, that we'll never get back. So I think no one should waste his/her time for this movie, it was totally unnecessary to do.

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.