Dark Floors

2008 "The Fear is Here."
4.4| 1h27m| R| en
Details

A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.

AD
AD

Watch Free for 30 Days

All Prime Video Movies and TV Shows. Cancel anytime. Watch Now

Trailers & Clips

Reviews

CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
suite92 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?
GL84 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.
sohrab-abedini I have seen this movie because just I wanted to watch something thriller but as a result the moviewas SO awful I couldn't stand not writing here! the characters have played awfully , the editingand the scenario was awful! you can not expect something worse. the overall conclusion was so confusing and not understandable, I wanted to ask did anybody understand anything? there was no reason behind each scene and by bad role playing of actors it seems they were just testing you IQ. I hope no one ever watch this movie. And here is a word with the producer:why on earth have you made it? cant you write something better?
SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain 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.