Lower than average The film left a contradictory impression. My opinion of this creation has changed several times.
Before watching, I did not expect anything stunning, since I have been weaned from the stunning since “The Call” and, perhaps, “Sylent Hill”. But I was hoping for a good European horror.
After 10 minutes of watching, I began to suspect something - all these strange pale girls, drawing black dirty tricks, hospital dungeons and suspicious otherworldly movers, seemed painfully familiar.
After 30 minutes, it became sad that I contacted this "masterpiece" - I do not like to throw under-viewed films, I feel uncomfortable from this, but there was a urge.
The reason for this is, first of all, the disgusting play of actors – every single one of them. From the girl I never believe in Stanislavsky to the rest. It seems that this is not a girl suffering from autism, but her company – they pronounce the prepared text so blandly and absolutely without emotion. Bathe in general, in my opinion, is deeply parallel to his daughter - he calmly throws her alone with various inadequate personalities among howling ghosts and other unpleasant phenomena (in addition, the daughter is about to fall into a coma from the lack of the necessary medicine, and he leisurely walks with a nice girl and talks with her "for life").
Our company reacts quite calmly to the surrounding hell, as if they regularly meet with living corpses and monsters in elevators. I was finished with the nurse’s statement, something like “perhaps these are parallel worlds layered on top of each other,” uttered in a voice that ordered a taxi and almost with a yawn.
Second, it's the plot itself. The film is a hodgepodge of those techniques and decisions that its creators seemed successful in the already held films. The already mentioned "Call" and "Sylent Hill" were the dad and mom of "Dark Floors." They borrowed everything that lay badly (terrible doodles, monsters breaking down doors, a crowd of the living dead through which one has to wade, even a policeman who was destined to die from the beginning). But if in the primary sources everything was to the place and the topic, then here it is simply annoying.
And in general, the plot is clearly sucked out of the finger. Why did these troubles happen at this very moment, how is the girl involved here, who is this black miracle, with whom the girl spoke heart to heart and what, so to speak, is the salt and morality? All these questions remain unanswered.
Now for the few pluses:
- Nice special effects. A lot of things were pretty convincing.
- A few unusual ideas on which it would be possible to build a very decent movie, but which remained in the bud.
- Oddly enough, the very penetrating atmosphere of the “Dark Floors” will be in such a place for sure no one will want.
Bottom line: not absolute thrash, but something very close. You can watch once in conditions of acute shortage of quality horrors.
3 out of 10
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