Review by Mari Lynne Rupp
While in the hospital for a tomography of the brain of his autistic daughter Sarah, Ben becomes upset when there is a power failure. He decides to leave the hospital with Sarah, while the nurse Emily tries to convince him to leave Sarah for further treatment. They get the elevator with three other passengers, and suddenly the elevator stops; when the door opens, people has vanished from the hospital, the environment is creepy and they are chased by devilish monsters. They find that they are trapped in the hospital, and the creatures seem to be hunting Sarah
From writer Pekka Lehtosaari and directed by Pete Riski, this Finnish offering to the new Lionsgate franchise,gives us a good headstart on the suspense, and keeps it consistent, with a twist ending that still has me scratching my head.
Setting a movie at a hospital automatically sets me on edge....A hospital is my workplace, with nurses, doctors and policemen. You know, people trained for emergency situations. It's the "safe area" everyone goes when the Armageddon is threatening. It's MY safe place, because no matter what goes wrong, there's a policy firmly in place that tells me what I need to do.
When the unusual happens and supernatural forces take over, those policies go out the window, and humans are reduced to reacting primally, your patients turn to you for help, and you're forced to say "I don't know." Which is some people's nightmares. The suspense hangs on through a trip to a deserted Hospital basement, strange monsters and screaming ghosts (courtesy of the Finnish heavy metal band Lordi) reanimated corpses and a crazy twist ending that even M.Night Shyamalan couldn't predict.
It's not Oscar material, no, but it has enough blood and guts to satisfy most gorehounds, and enough suspense and twist and turns to keep thrillseekers attention to the end. 7/10