Dark Floors (2008)

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?

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.

I think that Dark Floors had a very good potential to be great. Everything was done very well, the acting, the directing, and the camera shoots. The only thing wrong with Dark Floors, in my opinion, was the story line.The story line wasn't that bad, it was just very confusing. It leaves you wondering, with a lot of different holes in it. You end up asking yourself, "how did they get there," or "why is this happening." It is very unclear on to why the things around them are taking place, and what's causing them.I do think it was done well, although it just doesn't make much sense. I think the viewers of this movie will have a hard time dictating what is happening to the cast. It is a very confusing film, no doubt about that.

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.