Released in the same week as 7 other movies from Ghost House Underground (owned by Sam Raimi) comes DARK FLOORS "The Lordi movie". Lordi is a band from Finland that is a costume metal band. Imagine a cross between Gwar and Kiss and Iron Maiden. They take there monster make up show very seriously and thus made a serious movie where they play the monsters in the movie. They tastefully step back from the camera and let (sorta) real actors play the main characters and drive the plot. The Lordi band mates simply play unnamed demons rampaging the haunted hospital. Five people entered an elevator in a normal looking hospital. When the elevator doors open they fine the hospital has gone quiet, dead quiet. They are now trapped inside with ghostly images and sounds filling the air as well as 5 nasty demons rampaging through the hallways. Interesting that unlike movies made by Gwar and ICP which simply just advertise the bands, this movie doesn't do that. Infact if you didn't already know these monsters where characters in a band you wouldn't figure that out from the movie. Expect for the extra features on the dvd which make that very clear, music videos and live performances all over this disc, which is cool if your a fan, which yes I am. But it's really strange that only one Lordi song appears in the actual movie.
Visually really good, but the acting is real bad, the lordi monsters are the best actors and they don't even talk. Plot makes no sense at all, Spoiler, it's one of those was it or was it not all a dream endings, well maybe... at least i think it was, i mean seriously it made no sense. It explained nothing. Also the pacing was bad, huge monster attacks with no work up or no gut crunching kill points. The basic plot is a haunted hospital and a bunch of mix match people running from demons. Demons that look great and taken seriously could be awesome, but poor directing makes it fall flat. I mean Mister Lordi (yes that's the singers name) looks so freakin' cool, but he doesn't do shit. You could tell visually the director was going for a Silent Hill rip off. Silent Hill reknowned as the only horror video game to be made into a decent movie. This could have been great but sadly it wasn't. Slow and quiet does not fit a movie inspired by a monster costumed metal band.
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