AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR

AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR 

AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR: 4.5/10 or C- 

Ever since I watched OCULUS I keep holding out for another really good modern day horror film. I was really hoping that this would turn out to be one, but unfortunately it is yet another to add to the long list of recent crap horror films I've seen. 

The acting was good, I have to admit that as was the suspense. At first I thought that I was watching a modern day ROSEMARY'S BABY, and it had potential to be that good, but the movie slowly regressed as it moved along.

The film's biggest flaw is that it never knew exactly what it wanted to be. I think that director/writer Nicolas McCarthy had a lot of ideas and rather than pick one and go with it, he tried to incorporate all of them together which led to a gigantic cluster (F word). The film break's its own rules multiple times throughout the story.

If I had to count how many times Nicole Smith and I said, "This doesn't make sense." "It doesn't make any sense." "This doesn't add up." We'd probably be in the 100's. So many plot holes, so many things that add nothing to the story. So many choices out of the characters that make the film even more confusing.

I wish I could say more good about this film, because I kept on waiting for an explanation or an epilogue that would tie it in all together and make it all make sense.

It's one thing to be cleverly ambiguous, and it's another to leave your audience in utter despair because of a shitty script with a shitty ending.

C- may be being generous.....