Lordi Reveal "Dark Floors" Trailer

Dark Floors - The Lordi Motion Picture will be premiered in Finland February 8th 2008.

The Finnish Eurovision Song Contest winner Lordi will perform the theme song and star in new €4 million horror movie for Finnish producer Markus Selin of Solar Films .

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FOR YEARS, Finnish film student Tomi Putaansuu had analyzed the way good gorefests work; how Sam Raimi, for example, conjured up the cadaverous scares in his "Evil Dead" trilogy.

Putaansuu went on to make his own bloody homages to the genre — which placed high in countless European competitions — before settling into a grisly position in horror-flick storyboards, makeup and prosthetics. And he had a theory he desperately wanted to test: that nothing shocks the public, not even monsters stalking city streets in broad daylight.

So when his Scorpions' retro-rock band Lordi was doing a photo shoot for its first album four years ago, he made a bet with the photographer — that the members, dressed in their outrageous alien-zombie stage get-ups, could stroll through town at afternoon rush hour without raising any sort of ruckus. "And guess who won?" chirps the gabby ghoul, who rechristened himself Mr. Lordi, the band ringleader/vocalist who sports onstage claws, 8-foot retractable demon wings and electric blood-spewing chains.

"At 4 in the afternoon on a Friday in Helsinki, we took subways to different stations and hung around where there were a lot of people coming out of work, and nobody stared, nobody said a thing. And it was at a time when no one even knew us," he says, "but thousands of Finns at rush hour just ignored huge monsters standing in their path. So this certainly tells you something about film."

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source:Inside Bay Area

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Lordi at Cannes Film Festival

The world famous monster band was promoting the coming horror film at Cannes Film Festival.

On the beach

Over the street

The monsters in the heat

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On the Red Carpet of Cannes

Dark Floors

Synopsis
"Concerned for her autistic daughter’s health, the father sees a removal from the hospital by force as the only option. An elevator break-down prevents a smooth exit and renders them trapped with others. Yet the incident is only the beginning of a descent into nightmare. As the doors open the hospital appears mysteriously deserted. When mutilated bodies are found, creatures from a dark world start a frightening attack. It soon becomes clear that the survival of the group may rest solely on the little girl."

The feature film will be premiered in Finland February 8th 2008.

source and photos:Solarfilms.com

Lordi's horror dream becomes reality

Mr Lordi's childhood dream is taking shape in Oulu, the capital of northern Finland. Dark floors, the horror movie set in a hospital, is being filmed there and the whole band takes part. The budget, 4 million euros, in a very big one for a Finnish movie.

Mouldy walls and cold light give a right atmosphere for the horror movie Mr Lordi aka Tomi Putaansuu wrote together with his long time friend Pete Riski. The setting has been built into an old industrial hall in the city of Oulu. "We have really big settings and we found here the right space for them" says the producer Markus Selin of Solar Films. "Here in Oulu we also got all the professionals we need and the flight connections are good as well." The main actors in the film are all British, including 13 year old Skye Bennet. The film will be in English.

"Everybody knows by now my childhood dream is to write and act in a horror movie. Not so many know I have the studied the field seriously as well. It is great to be able to create some horror for real for a change!" says Mr Lordi himself. He wanted to set the film in something similar to the horror classic Shining for example. "I can't tell more about the film, as I may reveal too much, except it happens in a hospital" he says.

All Lordi members are involved in the film and it will be released in two versions: one for over 13 year olds, another for over 15 years olds (in Finland, in other countries these age limits may vary).

The Finnish Eurovision Song Contest winner will perform the theme song.

The film, which will be launched in Finland on Friday, 8 February, will be the first feature by Pete Riski, who has directed all the group’s videos.

Meanwhile, Mr Lordi has written and drawn also issue number 2 of the Lordi comic books, available in Finland now.


sources:esctoday.com;solarfilms.com (photo:solarfilms)