Diagonaldi
Very well executed
Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Keira Brennan
The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
VanillaLimeCoke
So I saw this on NetFlix and was looking for a nice scary horror thriller. Hopefully one that wasn't gory and laced with strong profanity, just one that was scary.Watching this seemed like a very under rated film and was somewhat enjoyable. It was no 1408 or the Shining but it seemed to be only a few steps behind that.The main premise is that this lady has designed this tall office building. She's the architect. But strange deaths start occurring. The place is obviously haunted. But by what? One detective eventually sees the supposed ghost and tries doing some research. He soon realizes that he has psychic powers better than some shrink (or her patient through a psychic exercise of guessing colors and numbers) he hires to investigate the building.The film moves a bit slow but the suspense is quite interesting as the psychiatrist tries to communicate to the unrest-ed spirit to try and set things right. One main interesting thing is how they keep showing the inside of the elevator shaft as the elevator is going up/down.But the ending is disappointing and not pretty as more people die and not even clear to why the lady killed her ex-husband nor even why his spirit kills all those other people instead of just getting back at the wife. It's not the ending I wanted nor even expected.This film sort of reminded a bit of that 'Tower' movie I reviewed back in the summer, only this time instead of the security system going berserk its a ghost.
HumanoidOfFlesh
"Dark Power" is a horror movie set in Barcelona.After a window washer plunges to his death from a Barcelona high rise several people come to investigate including security consultant Dennis Randall(Michael Moriarty).He cannot locate a problem, but decides to investigate further,when more gruesome deaths begin to take place inside and around the office building.His investigations prove that there is a sinister force behind all the deaths,a supernatural entity that isn't about to stop.Dull and uninvolving horror film with weak acting and lifeless script.I loved Barcelona's setting though.I was there three times and recognized several familiar places like Placa Espanya,Barceloneta,Las Ramblas,Arc de Triomf etc.If you want to go to Barcelona be sure to visit Freaks-the best shop dedicated to horror in Europe situated on C/Ali Bei 10.5 out of 10.
dbdumonteil
The two leads are cast against type:while Jenny Agutter ("Logan's run" "Werewolf in London" )plays a mysterious go-getter woman,Michael Moriarty (whose portrayal of Erich Dorf in "Holocaust" is memorable) is the nice cop.The first part is derivative but intriguing;it's more reminiscent of Dick Maas's "L'Ascenseur"(1983) -later remade (more or less) as " down" (2001)- than of "poltergeist".But as soon we know the "reason why" ,the flick loses 90% of its appeal.There's the ghost buster and the medium played by Kevin McCarthy who was the hero of the sensational "invasion of the body snatchers" (1956).The former is particularly unbearable ,with his interminable monologues when he's talking to the ghost.
Zorin-2
"Dark Tower" is a "Poltergeist" rip-off about a dark spirit, ghost, or whatever you want to call it taking over a skyscraper. The "ghost" starts off by killing people in the building such as the window washer and that is when cop Micheal Moriarty is called to the case. Michael Moriarty is a good actor, too bad he has to act in garbage like this! Even worse than Moriary's other bad horror films such as "A Return to Salem's Lot" and "It's Alive III: Island of the Alive". Just a word of advice, AVOID IT!