Dark Floors (2008)

Director:

Pete Riski

Writers:

Pekka Lehtosaari (written by)
Lordi (original idea) ...

Release Date:

8 February 2008 (Finland)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror

Tagline:

The Lordi Motion Picture

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Nurse | Hospital | Autism | Elevator

Cast

Lordi		(as Mr. Lordi)
Kita
Amen
Ox
Awa
Skye Bennett	...	Sarah
Noah Huntley	...	Ben
Dominique McElligott	...	Emily
Ronald Pickup	...	Tobias
William Hope	...	Jon
Leon Herbert	...	Rick
Philip Bretherton	...	Walter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Calton	...	Radio Voice / Maggy Fellman
Laura Faarinen	...	Nurse
Maggy Fellman	...	Voice on Radio (voice)
Mikael Gustafsson	...	Patient
Eveliina Haataja	...	Corpse in 2nd Floor Operation Room
Ulla Hämeenaho	...	Corpse in 2nd Floor Hallway / Zombie's Hands
Anniina Keiskander	...	Nurse
Jonna Kinnunen	...	Expecting Couple
Jarmo Korteniemi	...	Doctor
Minna Kuusisto	...	Doctor
Mari Liimatainen	...	Nurse
Niko Männikkö	...	Doctor
Iiris Mikkonen	...	Corpse in Minor Operating Room / Corpse in 2nd Floor Operation Room
Jari Sarja	...	Doctor
Jarmo Saurio	...	Doctor
Milla Suoraniemi	...	Nurse
Armi Tenkula	...	Nurse
Armit Tenkula	...	Nurse
Hannu Tihinen	...	Nurse
Kaisa Vainio	...	People in Information Desk Room

Also Known As:

Dark Floors: The Lordi Motion Picture (Finland) (promotional title)
Punainen liitu (Finland) (working title)
Red Chalk (International: English title) (working title)
Ölüm kapani (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Pimedad korrused (Estonia) [et]

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and disturbing images.

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

Finland | Iceland

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Finland:K-15

Filming Locations:

Oulu, Finland

Company:

Kisi Production

Trivia:

Most expensive Finnish horror film to be produced.

Quotes:

Sarah: I want the red crayon!

Soundtrack:

Beast Loose In Paradise

Weak horror attempt by an embarrassing rock band

Just finished watching, can't say I was impressed.

It starts of quite good, the visual and the atmosphere gives a creepy feeling as this type of movie should. But it all ends when the first lordi monster appears. Not only do you recognize them from the band lordi, but they are seriously malplaced in the movie. Doomsday monsters with leather jackets and piercings are so 80's.

As for the storyline, it starts of as similar horror movies, people trapped inside a hell hole. But there is no clear story on why and what is happening. The viewer is thrown some lines on possible reasons, but the lines never meet and end up to anything but a mess.

With all the money spent on this film, with an intriguing start and some good effects, I had thought someone would have taken better care of the product. I wonder if lordi made this movie just to prove that their show costumes could be scary (except they aren't).

So the movie gets cred for the visuals, i guess the money had to go somewhere. But the rest is an embarrassing attempt from a rock band to make their on-stage monster aliases scarier.