Bad Writing, Bad Storytelling This movie is terrible. "Five floors, five girls, five hours." Thankfully, it only lasts 90 minutes, which is about 60 minutes too long. The back-story about the sanatorium is a rip-off of "House on Haunted Hill", which has better actors and a much better story. Even the over-stylized flashing montage of clipped images in pale or burnished tones is a rip-off. On the other hand, there are five scantily clad co-eds running around to spark your interest, but forget that too, because there is only one nude scene that lasts about 10 seconds. About half-way through, the half-baked premise is dripped out using insipid dialogue that insists on telling us things we already know and to reveal a confused rationale for staging the "initiation". The epitome of bad is the dead girl who has a shard of glass in her neck, but look again, the glass shard is in the hand of the other girl that killed her. (By the way, later on, the same dead girl is obviously breathing as Ritchie approaches.) The entire film is indicative of the writer/director's artless comprehension of continuity. There are camera's everywhere, but who's watching? Other ghosts are wandering around, but who are they? The ghost with the gurney is the root of the evil, but who was he? At the risk of being a spoiler, I'll tell you the premise is that the lead doctor reported cures to keep the grant money while sending the dead out the death tunnel, but that's backwards. He should have hid the cure to keep the grant money coming in by showing occasional successes, then the end would have made sense and a stronger storyline could have been developed. Redeeming qualities? The cinematography isn't bad, the lighting's OK, and some of the make-up is good, though there is a propensity for Nickelodeon goo.