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Dark Floors is a 2008 horror film featuring the members of Finnish monster band Lordi as the villains.

Group of people board an elevator in a hospital, and when they arrive on the next floor, they discover that the hospital is now empty. Soon after, they are being attacked by various monsters.

This film has the examples of:

• Abandoned Hospital: The floor where the cast is stuck in appears as an empty hospital.
• Agent Scully: John takes a very long time to come around to the idea that the events at the hospital could be supernatural, clinging onto the idea that it's just a halloucination. He shakes this off just in time to attempt to sacrifice Sarah to the evil.
• Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not the other people in the hospital they find dead were people trapped in the same loop as them, or simply some "prop" manifestations.
• And Show It to You/Beat Still, My Heart: The mummy Amen rips out the Jonathan's heart and shows it to him.
• Black Dude Dies First: Played straight. Sorry Rick.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Who else, but Lordi themselves. Sorted individually:
  • Mr Lordi himself, disintegrating everything in his path.
  • Amen
  • OX
  • Awa
  • Kita
• C.A.T. Trap: Sarah is put into a CT machine and shortly thereafter begins to freak out. It's also where she starts when the monsters make the night start over again, something only she can remember.
• Creepy Child: Sarah, due to reliving her father's death over and over again.
• I'm Cold... So Cold...: Tobias spends most of the movie being "cold", as well as coming back as a zombie to save Sarah, then Ben.
• Devoured by the Horde: A rather chilling example, notable considering it happens off-screen. Poor Emily is trapped in the pitch-black morgue as the bodies rise all around her. We see a couple shots from inside the room, but when they catch her we can only see a glimpse of it through a window.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: After decending deep enough into the hospital, the surviving group discover that everyone else in the hospital has already been killed, and the place is absolutely littered with slaughtered staff and patients. Becomes a Chekhov's Gun later when they arise as zombies and devour Emily.
• Guns Are Useless: Expectedly played straight with Awa, and then with OX. At least Rick has a healthy case of Bottomless Magazines.
• Hellevator: Things are normal until the elevator the characters are in starts acting up, trapping them between floor six and seven — "Not Hell, not Heaven". Played further straight when Kita ambushes John in another elevator.
• Jerkass: John is a curt, stick-up-his-ass douchenozzle, but at least mostly sensible. Turns out he's also pretty willing to sacrifice someone else's child.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Depends on how much someone should actually trust the hospital's deal to "give up the girl", but John isn't entirely unjustified in encouraging others to consider that it may be the only thing to do. John and Emily both have kids of their own to live for, and even Ben much latter despairs and wonders if they should've gone through with it.
• The Movie: Some releases of the film comes with the subtitle The Lordi Motion Picture.
• Mummy: Lordi's guitarist Amen, who has the power to create sandstorms out of thin air.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Sarah draws stylized versions of the monsters that attack the group—before the attacks happen. She also tends to draw constant circles which symbolize the fact that she's been living the events of the movie over and over again for an indefinite number of loops while the monsters try to convince her to come with them.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: While it is eventually revealed that Sarah's forced to relive the same day over and over, the film's ending shows Sarah choosing a different color crayon. If she can change what happens from cycle to cycle, however small, then she may be able to break the cycle eventually. It's even entirely possibly this is a sign the cycle has already been broken, reinforced by what Tobias says to Emily at the very end
  Tobias: I'm not cold anymore.
• Reduced to Dust: Or black tar, whatever it is. Poor Ben .
• The Reveal: The events of the film are a "Groundhog Day" Loop, and have been going on for some time.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Possibly. Rick tries to hold off OX so that the others can escape. The problem is he's only armed with his long-proven ineffectual pistol, and once he inevitably gets annihilated, OX is seemingly stopped by a door. Whether or not OX was satisfied by killing Rick, or there was any other excuse for him to stop his pursuit of the others, isn't clarified
• Super-Scream: The monster portrayed by Lordi's then-keyboardist Awa is a ghost with a glass-breaking screech. Tobias refers to her as "the Scream Queen", and she is the only one given an in-movie name.
• Taking You with Me: Tobias skewers Amen with a jagged pole, with the latter returning the favour by pulling him onto the point coming out of his own chest. Given the band's tremendous fortitude, powers and the anomalous passages of time, it's uncertain whether Amen was actually killed.
• The Undead: An unexpected, late-arrival auxiliary to the band members, who have already killed half the group by the time the undead awaken to kill Emily.
  • Ambigiously played straight with Tobias who starts rotting away after rejoining the group. It's not clarified whether or not he was killed by OX and came back somehow, or if this is some other condition.
• Waif Prophet: Sarah prophetizes things to come during her mad ramblings because she's lived all this before—in fact, living in that time loop is what's driven her mad to begin with.