Language - English
Genre - Horror, monster
For those of you who don’t know Lordi is a Finnish hard rock
band made up of 5 members, all of whom dress as a different monster. They also won the Eurovision song contest The bands line up in dark Floors is:
Mr Lordi
Kita
Amen
Ox
Awa
Dark floors is not a lordi documentary it is a horror film
with the band staring as the monsters.
Due to malfunctioning equipment and no progress in treating
her, Ben decides to take his daughter out of the hospital she is in; they enter
a lift with a few other people and star on their way out of the hospital. The lift stops between the 7th and
6th floor and then drops down the 6th. Everyone leaves the lift to find the hospital
deserted, assuming that they have somehow missed a fire alarm the party heads
to the service stairs, along the way they come across a corps with its eyes
ripped out.
As the group move through the hospital they find that the
conditions one each floor is worse than the previous floor and they soon find
out what has happened to the rest of the staff and patience’s.
Dark floors is an atmospheric film relying more on the mood
of the film than the monsters. There is
an appearance of each of the band members (one on each of the hospital floors)
but very little explanation as to why they are there. The film is quite cleaver, it plays with time
and leaves you guessing as to what is happening, even without the monsters
there is enough happening to make the film enjoyable.
As i said each of the band members makes an appearance, I feel that it is good that they are all not
on screen at the same time as too many monsters at once probably would have
made the film feel over crowded, as it is it does seem to have a slight affect
on the film as I think it would feel a bit better if it had only one antagonist.
Obviously reason there are all the monsters is so that the band can all have
some screen time and having one per floor does seem to work ok.
The feel of ‘Dark Floors’ is a bit odd, it has the creepy atmosphere
of a horror film and the feel of something
like the Silent hill films, possibly because the nature of the film is similar. In some places the film feels like a computer
game with each floor a new level and each band member a final boss and there is
also a feel that it may be a long music video (without the music) although this
may influenced by the Lordi videos I had already seen as there are elements carried
across from the music to the film, obviously because the bans image is such a prominent
one.
Without giving too much away I’m still not completely sure what
to make of the ending i think that i may be representing Sarah over coming
fear.
There is also a plot thread that doesn’t seem to go anywhere
and that is the drug that they have Sarah on, it sometimes looks like it is
going to have something to with what is happening but, apart from providing a
small bit of motivation for the cast to get move through the floors it doesn’t
seem to have much point as the heroes are trying to get out of the hospital
anyway.
Dark Floors is a good film, the inclusions of all the band
members does not interfere with the flow of the film too much and it does have
a good story and is worth a watch.
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