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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/pandamonium-poster.jpg" width="250" height="353"></td> </tr> </table> <p>It's Daniel's (Will Jones) first day on level 6 of a prolific law firm, which is quite a promotion, even if he doesn't quite know how to feel about it. The same day, Arielle (Oriana Charles) starts her new job in one of the offices on level 2 of the company - and she too doesn't quite know how to feel about it. So when the two bump into each other, they're quick to realise they share a somewhat similar fate and take an instant liking to one another.<p>It's after hours, and Daniel's boss Hook (James Hamer-Morton) decides to throw a party for his executive level friends (Lee Mark Jones, William Marshall, Derek Nelson), and he invites Daniel to join in. Daniel doesn't know how to feel about it, especially when Jasmine (Dani Thompson) and her stripper friends (Charlie Bond, Chloe Badham, Tatiana Ibba) show up to provide the entertainment - and maybe even a little more ... for the right price. Of course, Arielle has the bad luck to pop by level 6 then, which gets Daniel into a bit of an awkward situation, which turns about 10 times as awkward when it's revealed Arielle was once one of Jasmine's strippers.<p>Might not be the best of situations for Arielle and Daniel for sure, but things really go to hell when a panda-mask maniac (David Hon Ma Chu) turns up, locks everybody in up at level 6, and starts killing the strippers - and everybody that stands in his way of succeeding in his mission. And as drunk and coked up as the executives on level 6 are, they do little but standing in the Stripper Killer's way ...<p> <p>Sure, in writing, <b>PandaMonium</b> might sound like little other than formulaic filmmaking, and one would probably be hard-pressed to call it the re-invention of the wheel - but what this movie really is is great FUN. Basically, the film seems to be blissfully aware of its own formula, but makes the most out of it by throwing its characters into unusual situations and finding original (and often quite hilarious) ways to resolve them. Plus, while the film's played totally straight, it doesn't take itself too seriously, and without going either the parody or the moronic route the outcome is pretty much as funny as it's gruesome and violent.<p>Definitely worth a look! <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2019"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>