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Wednesday 22 October 2014

AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR [2014]

I was fond of director Nicholas McCarthy's feature length debut, The Pact, so I was eager to see if he could creep me out just as much with At The Devil's Door.
Sadly he falls flat on this face with this unfocused sloppy mess.
The acting goes from great to embarrassing with it's three leads but perhaps it's the laughable dialogue they had trouble executing with confidence.  I appreciate the weighty story that McCarthy was attempting to tell but it all just falls apart with it's jarring shifts in pacing and doesn't quite have the strength to keep itself together once things get too "complicated".  It had a lot of potential with some great jump scares and tense atmospher but it never quite feels convinced it can pull it's own weight.

2 shirts on the mirror out of 5

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