At the Devil's Door
Directed by Nicholas McCarthy
When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web — and has sinister plans for both of them. Contains strong supernatural horror, suicide scene.
Real estate agent, Leigh, finds herself caught up in a sinister web when she tries to sell a house that is home to a disturbed teen and a dark past.
Cast: Naya Rivera, Ashley Rickards, Nick Eversman
Member Reviews
A very choppy structure. As soon as you become somewhat interested in a character, the person in question is killed and we're onto the next one. The result is that the viewer, unduly confused by the rapid onslaught of protagonists, never becomes invested in the fates / outcomes of ANY of the characters. And since the theme / plot is so well trodden (demon impregnation!), the movie will live or die on the basis of character development. So, for me, it mostly dies. What delivers the coup de grace are two absolutely implausible scenes, one in which the sister, without any rational reason, unloads on a clearly disturbed young girl (who the sister has acknowledged as such) an exposition dump about the sister's troubled relationship with her sibling, in the process conveniently informing the entity with all that it needs to know. Purpose served? Kill the character! The second is toward the end of the movie when the adopted (foster?) mother of the surviving sister's demon child leaves the kid completely alone with an unknown stranger who desperately demands to sea the hell urchin without explaining why. Not buying that or ANY of it, for that matter. Certainly NOT worth a re-watch and probably not worth a first watch either. For a much better treatment of the idea (and a much better film) check out PRO-LIFE, part of THE MASTERS OF HORROR series (available on Tubi). First, it accomplishes all this film hoped to achieve (and much more!) in about an hour, giving you an extra thirty minutes of life. And secondly, it's directed by JOHN CARPENTER!
Why is this edited like it was made for TV with commercial breaks? It's so disjointed. Some questionable acting and writing. Story is unoriginal. It's a skip for me
Great!!
a little boring, some good ideas but it lost my interest a few times
An interesting story, but nothing else. Don't waste your time.