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Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

GL84 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.

hudsonda4 I love horror movies that have a lot of mystery in them. But that doesn't mean you can have an entirely unexplained plot that doesn't wrap itself up in any way. This movie didn't answer any of the questions it presented, although it did seem like the director was trying to hint at what might be going on.There were no scares. They built up to scares with high intensity moments and then never delivered. Now, Lordi does say that he had to tone down the movie dramatically because of his financiers. That means you should have released a theatrical version and a director's cut. We are stuck with the toned down version of the movie that obviously removed the explanations and the scares.The fact that nothing was explained and all the scares had been removed demotes this movie to 2 stars.

Rob_Taylor Apparently this movie has something to do with some Finnish band. I guess I might have got more out of the film if I knew more about the band, but I'm not sure exactly what that would have been.Dark Floors, on the surface, is a surreal trip into the mind of an autistic child. At least, I think that's what its meant to be. I can't be sure, because nothing is really explained at the end or, if it is, its not made clear enough for me to grasp it.So what's good about this movie to distinguish it from, say, Silent Hill? Well, I liked the way the "plot" went from simple creepy, through to ghost story, then monsters, then.....what the f**k! There was a constant increase in the weirdness level as the movie progressed. At no point did any of it make much sense, but I just went with it. Oh, and did I mention the stopped time element? That's there throughout.At no point did I ever feel I had a grasp on the characters predicament. As I mentioned above, best guess was that it was all in the little girls mind. Unfortunately, that fantasy-within-a-fantasy also gave me little reason to care about any of the characters.There were some nice touches, such as the ever deteriorating state of the hospital as the band of survivors descended towards ground floor but, on the whole, I wanted to understand what was going on more than I wanted nice visuals.That, for me, is the films biggest let-down. It throws its story at the audience and then singularly fails to explain what is going on and why. Some films thrive on this lack of explanation, but horror pics generally don't. And here, Dark Floors, suffers increasingly as the movie goes on from this fault.It looks good, is decently acted and shot. But without that spark of understanding, it leaves the audience literally on the outside looking in. All in all, a disappointment.

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.