Friday, May 23, 2008

Whatever happened to Dark Floors?

I got to wondering tonight what happened to Dark Floors. I do the weekly Trailer Park column over at Cinematical.com and I did a write up on the Dark Floors preview back in December. The film got its world premiere in its native Finland on February 6, and has since been released in Iceland and Estonia (I'm embarrassed to say I don't even know where that is) but I haven't heard any news of a U.S. release. Well, the Internet is a pretty awesome thing and I quickly learned (thanks to an article over at Bloody-disgusting.com) that the film has been picked up by Ghost House Underground, a new direct-to-video branch of Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures that will be releasing the film in October.

Dark Floors stars the band Lordi, a Finnish rock group who wear some very cool and downright horrific monster costumes as part of their act. When a man removes hist autistic daughter from her doctor's care and attempts to the leave the hospital, they and a handful of others step off the elevator onto a floor that shouldn't exist. The place is strewn with corpses, and they find themselves stalked by monstrous demons, played by the members of Lordi. This looks awesome enough for me to ignore the slight resemblance to Silent Hill. I checked out the movie's official site which is a pretty cool Flash driven affair. Take a look at the trailer below, and beneath that you'll find a Lordi video that proves they've seen The Evil Dead in Finland.



1 comments:

Aboozar said...

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I wonder why in todays horror films, producers urge so firmly include monsters, flash backs of times, narrating a story in fact the whole film in the shape of a nightmare.This shows that we matter our thoughts, here the mental patients.On the other hand, this movie and sevral other ones like room6,the ring and so on show the major trend that now there's in producers to make such films. Why a person should signal such extraordinary symptoms that exist in a person. What makes it worth to create a film based on these ideas?
If these films were in reality based perhaps believing them would be difficult but in dreams in seems much more conceivable.At the end I hope expertise people can review these films in the way thay deserve. I am open for any comment or discussion at Abooozar999@gmail.com don't forget to send your feedbacks about my comment. I will be happy to read them.
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