You won't be disappointed!

Purely Joyful Movie!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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?

When her hospital treatment goes wrong, a little girl and her father have to flee from nightmarish monsters through an endless labyrinth of death.Big production stuff, with good direction and photography, and it gets into its pace almost straight away. Performances are OK, especially the little girl, but the characters are one-note so there's not much the actors can do, especially with lots of dry dialogue.The frights were good early on, but I just can't be doing with heavy metal visions of hell. Cheese. I prefer it when the supernatural is a taste of the moment of death, not eternal damnation.The music was pretty good, and some clever stuff with sound when all the phones ring at once.There is a sensitive story in here, but the concept was just too heavy handed. At about halfway through I began wondering how they'd wrap it up, and the rest pounded its way to a climax that didn't earn that final sequence. In other words, the subtext is very human and complex, but the concept doesn't really bring it out. (I'm flailing around not to give spoilers!)Overall, solid entertainment but crucially confused.

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.

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.