Nonureva Really Surprised!

Micransix Crappy film

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Michael Ledo Michael (Jeremy Sisto) and Maria (Sarah Wayne Callies) have given up the city that never sleeps to live in India, the part that looks like paradise and doesn't have all those third world beggars. Maria has trouble coping with the loss of her son Oliver (Logan Creran) who she accidentally drowned Susan Smith style. She is informed on how to talk to her son one last time, by going to a remote temple only known to the locals and those with Google Earth. Here the boundary between the living and dead is weak. After spreading Oliver's ashes and waiting until night, she can speak to Oliver through a door, which she is instructed never to open. She gets it all correct, except for maybe that one thing, which you would know if you are old enough to read the title.Soon they have visitations which are initially pleasant and then formula. The film was meh up until the last 10 minutes which were great.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. The "R" and BCFF 15 ratings I consider a bit high.

trashgang The idea of making a horror in India looks promising because you can add culture and believe into the story. And they actually did but the problem I had with this flick wasn't the story itself.I had issues with the effects used and not being scary at all. In the beginning of the flick the first scary moment is done with CGI so for me it was clear that this wasn't going to be my thing. It isn't scary at all even as they put in a creature that reminded me of so many Asian horrors, the long haired crawling girl. As said, the story is rather okay with the temple and the occult being added towards the story. But overall it's except for the drowning all done CGI wise. The last 10 minutes are the best part but again, for me the CGI used pushed away the scary part. It's not one for the real horror geeks but I can understand that teens will like it because it fits perfectly in the Anabelle's and Conjurings of this time being.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

2fresh 2clean "The Other Side of the Door" is one of those horror films that had so much potential but fell a little flat. The story is about a wife who loses her son in a horrific car accident but then finds a way to say her last goodbyes after he is gone but she doesn't follow the rules of what has to be done to say her last goodbyes, so as a result strange things start happening. Great idea but the film could have been written better, not saying this film was totally bad, it just could have been written a little better. Instead of being more of a horror film, maybe this film was more about a wife who is struggling in her marriage because of the loss of her child because a lot of that was expressed in this film. With that being said, the horror side of this film wasn't all that scary. The jump out of your seat scenes isn't really going to make you jump out of your seat and the ghost scenes were nice but they weren't really scary, but I've seen a whole lot worse. If you watch this film you won't be disappointed, just don't expect a night of sleeping with the lights on.

Jordan Hunt Prison Break's Sarah Wayne Callies carries this British-Indian horror production with the same demeanour as her more familiar role; maternal enough to sell the film's major theme, yet strong enough to carry the entire feature. This, after all, is what Callies is tasked with, as the grieving mother she portrays invites her dead son's spirit back to the world of the living with inevitably chilling consequences.While the majority of studio horror nowadays is bound by so many stipulations - the jump scares, the teenage cast demographics - that ultimately render it generic, The Other Side of the Door benefits from a refreshing change of setting in its Indian locale. As a result, not only does the film look elegantly beautiful with its colours and scenery, but its plot also benefits from a less familiar cultural angle than most supernatural thrillers are afforded. The central menace here - a temple doorway through which the living can contact the dead - is so far removed from Western ideology and the recurring origins of its horror movie monsters that the film undeniably offers something that is at least different, if not completely new. The second act, where things go bump in the night as Maria questions the nature of the spirit she's allowed back into her home, is admittedly routine, but that's not the issue with modern horror; the issue is whether or not it can at least try to overcome this mundane narrative.This is where the screenplay's wider themes come in to sharper focus, as the audience encourages Maria to make the right choices while sympathising with her fragile state of mind. The horror isn't simply limited to creepy children and unseen entities, but also the lengths a parent is compelled to go to in order to be reunited with a lost child. It's most certainly enough to make the more pedestrian scares forgivable as you witness a family being torn further apart by their loss just as much they are the shadows that lurk around them.The Other Side of the Door won't terrify you any more than any other supernatural horror released this year, and that's because, by now, genre aficionados really have seen it all. What it will do, however, is linger with you much longer as you place yourselves in the shoes of an emotionally drained mother who, you understand, would do anything to see her son again.