The Gate (1986)

Twelve-year-old Glen (Stephen Dorff) and his teenage sister (Christa Denton) are left in charge of the family home while their parents are away for the weekend. Glen and his Heavy Metal friend Terry (Louis Tripp) accidentally open a gateway to hell in Glen's back garden. We've all been there. Right?
I loved The Gate when I was a similar kind of twelve-year-old freak. But I'm not that age any more. The film has some neat stop-motion effects, but it was nostalgia more than anything else that kept me watching. It's not terrible but it hasn't aged well, which is something that it and I do still have in common.

2½ moth shadows out of 5