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I love cheesy horror flicks. I don't care if the acting is sub-par or whether the monsters look corny. I liked this movie except for the bewildered feeling all the way from the beginning of the film to the very end. Look, I don't need a 10 page dissertation or a sign with big letters explaining a plot to me. But Dark Floors takes the "what is this movie about?" thing to a whole new (annoying) level. What IS this movie about?

This isn't exceptionally scary or thrilling but if you have an hour and a half to kill and/or you want to end up feeling frustrated and confused, rent this winner.

Lordi was a major hype and revelation in 2007 because they won the Eurovision Song Contest with a (not-so-heavy) metal song called "Hard Rock Hallelujah" and appeared on stage dressed like hideous monsters. But, let's face it, their victory most likely had very little to do with their great musical talents. The Eurovision contest gradually turned into one big political circus over the years and Lordi probably just won because their song finally brought a little change and – even more importantly - because their whole act sort of ingeniously spoofed the whole annual event. The absolute last thing Lordi's first (and hopefully last) horror film brings is change and ingenuity. "Dark Floors", based on an idea of the lead singer and starring the rest of the band in supportive roles, is a truly unimaginative and hopeless accumulation of clichés. The immense budget ("Dark Floors" supposedly is the most expensive Finnish film ever) definitely assures greatly macabre set pieces and impressive make-up art, but what's the point where there's no story that is worth telling? The film takes is set in a busy hospital where a bunch of people, among them a father and his young daughter with an unidentifiable illness, become trapped in the elevator during a power breakdown. When the doors open again, the floors are empty and it looks as if the hospital lies abandoned since many years already. Trying to reach the exit, the group stumbles upon several morbid and inexplicable obstacles, like eyeless corpses, screaming ghosts and Heavy Metal monsters emerging from the floors. The only three points I'm handing out to "Dark Floors" are exclusively intended for the scenery and the adequate tension building during the first half of the film. For as long as the sinister events don't require an explanation, the atmosphere is quite creepy, but as soon as you realize the explanation will a) be very stupid or b) never come, the wholesome just collapses like an unstable house of cards. Lordi's costumes never really were scary to begin with (except maybe to traditional Eurovision fans) and, in combination with a story more reminiscent to Asian ghost-horror, they just look downright pathetic and misfit. With all the national myths and truly unique exterior filming locations, I personally always presumed Finland – The Land of a Thousand Lakes – would be the ideal breeding ground for potentially horrific horror tales, but I guess that's another disillusion on my account.

What do you call a horror story without horror and story?

This is the most irritating thing about the film: I get the feeling the writers never really decided what's actually going on in the film! It's a different thing to know it, give hints for the audience and not completely reveal it, but here, you get the feeling the screenwriters don't know it, characters in the film do not know it and audience sees that no one knows! (Remember "Cube"? Even that film knew more about itself.)

I've consumed a lot of 80's horror / gore films and this movie certainly has its roots deep in those films. But a lot of important things are missing. We really know nothing about the characters. They keep repeating empty lines over and over again. The story isn't really developing - it never goes anywhere. B-acting is OK in this type of horror films, but there's not much to act in the script. We don't care about the characters. There's nothing to remember about them. There's not even cheesy humor or unnecessary sex. And most importantly - no thrills, no chills.

You only get some commonly used elements of the horror film genre. They show the Lordi monsters one by one but their characters don't really contribute anything for the story.

I honestly believe that this amount of story, character development and atmosphere could be achieved with minimal amount of crew and equipment. Oh yeah, film makers used to do that - and more - some 20 years ago! I felt the shared embarrassment of the audience as the film ended. Too bad really.

Just finished watching, can't say I was impressed.

It starts of quite good, the visual and the atmosphere gives a creepy feeling as this type of movie should. But it all ends when the first lordi monster appears. Not only do you recognize them from the band lordi, but they are seriously malplaced in the movie. Doomsday monsters with leather jackets and piercings are so 80's.

As for the storyline, it starts of as similar horror movies, people trapped inside a hell hole. But there is no clear story on why and what is happening. The viewer is thrown some lines on possible reasons, but the lines never meet and end up to anything but a mess.

With all the money spent on this film, with an intriguing start and some good effects, I had thought someone would have taken better care of the product. I wonder if lordi made this movie just to prove that their show costumes could be scary (except they aren't).

So the movie gets cred for the visuals, i guess the money had to go somewhere. But the rest is an embarrassing attempt from a rock band to make their on-stage monster aliases scarier.

While in the hospital for a tomography of the brain of his autistic daughter Sarah (Skye Bennett), Ben (Noah Huntley) becomes upset when there is a power failure. He decides to leave the hospital with Sarah, while the nurse Emily (Dominique McElligott) tries to convince him to leave Sarah for further treatment. They get the elevator with three other passengers, and suddenly the elevator stops; when the door opens, people has vanished from the hospital, the environment is creepy and they are chased by devilish monsters. They find that they are trapped in the hospital, and the creatures seem to be hunting Sarah.

"Dark Floors" is a bizarre and weird trip to a disturbed mind of an autistic girl. The dark story is intriguing and has a promising beginning, but the conclusion is disappointing. The performance of Skye Bennett, the eerie atmosphere and the special effects are the plus of this movie; Emily is a nice character well performed by Dominique McElligott; however, it is impossible to feel any empathy for the lead and important character performed by Noah Huntley. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Alma Diabólica" ("Devilish Soul")

I love horror movies that brings out a real amount of mystery like say "silent hill" ( which i found to be quite good, but still, was missing something ) and movies that keeps you guessing, this i thought was one of those movies. At first the movie starts out with some really good suspense and builds up a good starting point for a good horror scene, but after that it just rolls down the hill and from there it only goes faster and faster down. I mentioned silent hill at first for a reason because i can see a lot of "stolen" themes from that movie in here.. All in all i would say, watch silent hill instead of this one, its better, its more scary, it has a lot more suspense and also the ending is a lot better.. And best of all, you wont feel ripped off as i did with this one.. This just seems to be one of those "i like that movie so I'm gonna re-make it in my own really bad version" kinda movie.. Oh and one more thing... Lordi.. in a horror movie... thats like trying to scare a kid with a care bear who has "hug me and i will love you forever" written on the stomach of it..

The Dark Floors is in the genre of Silent Hill, The Botched, and even for a certain extent The Langoliers (Made for TV).

Story is very similar to the above mentioned movies except here it has no objective and to top it up we have got a boring acting and very slow screen play.

Story goes like this-A group of people locked up in a hospital, are getting attacked by the mysterious creatures/spirits; an autistic child among the group seems to have some connection to this.

The characters are terribly one dimensional and garners no sympathy among viewers on their survival.

There is nothing positive about Dark Floors except it finishes in less than 90 minutes(even then its too dragging and boring for its 80 odd minutes) If you want to watch some better movies in this genre then try The Botched(at least it is silly) or even Silent Hill(has got better screenplay and acting) but not this Mess of a Movie Avoid Dark Floors

I got to say that i went to see this movie with low expectations. I didn't believe that a Lordi movie could be good because i actually couldn't imagine it as a whole. Though, after i saw the movie i was amazed at how well the writers and the director pulled it off.

It is often said that horror is the most delicate type of movie because there is only a slight difference between scary and ridiculous. but this doesn't concern Dark Floors because it is not (atleast in my mind) a full blooded horror movie. The movie has many horror elements but doesn't still come off as horrorish. That doesn't make it bad it just means that you can't go in to the theater wishing that you will be scared out of your nickers.

The visual and audio feel of the movie was excellent all the way and there is nothing anyone can say about that. The plot did leave a annoying amount of plot holes and the ending didn't really clear any of them up and the viewer was just left to quess what the plot was all about. Still it didn't bother half as much as the under use of the Lordi band members. I have never liked Lordi and never listened to them but while watching this movie i became interested in the different monsters they play. Sadly, the plot did hardly nothing at all to use the unique backgrounds and looks of the different ghoul part from the different superpowers they all demonstrated. What i am saying is that i would have liked this movie to be more about the monsters than the victims... really who gave a goddamn thing for what happened to the all knowing copper or the businessman type. The only character i got even a bit curious was the weird hobo with superpowers and a weird telepathic relationship with the girl but he is never explained in any way(a big mistake).

In retrospect i think they could have done a lot more better but i also think that there is a lot of good in this film also and i hope it will be a success financially. There is just one thing Finns can't tolerate: a successful Finnish movie if it is not a drama.

A few days ago I stumbled over Dark Floors: the story is rather predictable and a little nonsensical at the same time, but the atmosphere, the visuals and the settings are done right. What surprised me - in a negative way - is the soundtrack, as the movie is a project of the Finnish heavy metal band Lordi it is really surprising that the soundtrack is a weak point of Dark Floors, many background tracks are really rather distracting, cliched and badly composed, and do not support the scenes well. Anyway, verdict: all in all okay.

Ben (Noah Huntley) is trying to leave a hospital with autistic daughter Sarah (Skye Bennett) when they get trapped in an elevator with four other people. When they emerge, they find the hospital completely empty and all modes of communication dead. Traveling floor to floor by the stairs, they find each level getting worse and worse as they combat ghosts and demons. This English language Finnish film is interesting in that it was built as a horror movie vehicle for Lordi, a GWAR-esque band known for their crazy costumes that ended up representing Finland in the Eurovision song contest in 2006. The fascinating thing is horror and heavy metal rarely mix correctly and usually comes off goofy (Rock 'N Roll Nightmare, I'm looking at you). But this is played entirely straight with the Lordi members being the ghosts/demons featured on various levels. Somehow director Pete Riski - who did Lordi videos previous to this and is making his feature debut - manages to make it work. No one from the band has any speaking lines, but the filmmakers manage to make them pretty imposing (not an easy feat when you consider one keeps on his leather jacket). There is also a whole time loop thing going on the never really works itself out, but the film is well made enough that I forgive things like that.

Once again we Finns have made it: we tried to reach a star but eventually found ourselves lying in a deep ditch.

Movies are usually categorized in A and B classes, and sometimes even in a C class, if the movie is terribly bad. In case of the Dark Floors movie, a special D class is needed, so that not to violate the C class movies of which many may be quite unique and much better than Dark Floors.

Wednesday night was the World premier in Oulu, Finland. The premier was set in the local ice hockey hall. The movie didn't contain anything novelty, and the story was so stupid and naive that it is not worth describing it here. The band members of a D class (as well, of course) heavy group (called Lordi) with rubber masks and ridiculous costumes, obviously trying to look like monsters, suddenly appeared and disappeared in the movie making it miserably funny.

The movie is made for 15 years old or older people who are mentally 9 years old. Maybe the Lordi fans are that kind of people. This is absolutely a camp movie, so anyone loving camp movies: here you are! The local newspaper Kaleva spent a double page for the movie. This clearly shows that having a World premier of a D class movie is a real happening in a middle-sized town in Northern Finland.

The producer claims (or threatens) that there will follow nine sequels. My guess is that this is the first and will be the last one. And that is good for everyone.

Well, the movie itself, the place and the atmosphere did actually have the potential to be more successful and enjoyable. But the way things happened during the story made it a lil bit disappointing.

This movie falls between being odd and confusing to watch through. Most of the story is just the characters trying to figure out how to escape this strange dimensional. The movie itself tries to cramp a lot of things to it, like different dimensional monsters, psychic powers, and time stopping, but it makes the movie feel unfocused. Even most of the monster actions happen pretty quickly with a lack of tension in it, and most of the movie is spent on the characters wandering around. I do like the atmosphere of the movie that gives off an unsettling vibe with how the hospital looks when it is in a different dimension and reminds me of Silent Hill. There are a couple of suspenseful scenes in the movie, but not enough of it. And the ending itself is really odd to even think about it.

I think the effects are done really well in this movie. I really like each of the monster designs that look creative and creepy looking. The makeup effects are done really well on how their made and how much details they put on them. There are a couple of CGI in it, but it doesn't look that bad. I also like the abandoned hospital design that reminds me of the Silent Hill games and gives off an eerie vibe. The movie has a couple of good practical gore effects.

One of the advantages of this painting is the atmosphere, which accurately conveys the mood of an inflamed consciousness. The first 15 minutes look intriguing, the environment is changing, transferring events to another world. The creators do not hide the reason, immediately pointing to it with the help of the old man's character. Unfortunately, the authors do not explain what is happening - who is this old man, who knows about what is happening, why other characters interact with the characters, why all this is happening at all - they just show us otherworldly evil for the sake of the genre, but it doesn't work that way! There must be reasons, there must be a goal - they are not here, so the attempt is good, but unfinished, and it's a pity if not for the plot, the film would have turned out great.

It has been a while since I've rated a movie and Dark Floors isn't exactly the best movie to make my comeback on.

Dark Floors starts as a concerned father tries to get his daughters medical problems diagnosed. He isn't satisfied with them not curing her within the first day of testing so he decides to take her out of the hospital w/o their knowing. Unfortunately the elevator takes them to a strange evil hospital where they must try and survive.

Man this does have some coolness as it really reminds me of another version of Silent Hill where we see the real world and the twisted dream world. The story is fairly interesting at first but unfortunately it gets boring quickly as the sit for periods and do pretty much nothing...I mean really there is a part where they spend nearly five minutes attacking a wall. The movie is part interesting but it can be worse as far as horror movies go.

If you have the time and attention this is an fair watch...

I have seen some pretty bad movies, and this is right up there. No plot to speak of, it's like one of those bad coma episodes on a soap-opera. I just wanted to smack that little girl because, well lets just say, she's real suspicious all the way through the movie. The monsters running around wearing some bling was funny. I also saw a bit of "Silent Hill" in there. And I read that this was done by, and or stared a Finnish metal band, Lordi. So it's no wonder that it didn't make much sense. It seem to be a vehicle for promoting there band and nothing more. The FX are very good, the look of the movie, the monsters, and even the acting also good. But the story and the telling of it, just aren't there.