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To me, this movie is perfection.

the audience applauded

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

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.

I've found the movie to be a very poor attempt at horror. Not because of acting or effects but the scenario the movie suggests. -SPOILERS AHEAD-So to quickly sum up the story, a mother is tormented by the loss of her son in a tragic(?) car accident. She was driving the car, had to chose between one of her two children, chose the daughter and now guilt and sorrow are eating away at her. She attempts suicide because the loss in unbearable, learns of a ritual to have contact with her son for one last goodbye and is given an extremely simple set of instructions to follow for said ritual, which of course she doesn't follow. Evil is unleashed, bad things happen to her family and the movie ends with the "some things should be left undisturbed" morale hanging in the air. -SPOILERS END-The mother is so laughably unstable and unlikable (again, this is a writing issue, not a cast or acting issue), that i felt really bad she didn't actually take her own life. The movie is plagued by the classical clichés of all horror movies, from contrived reasons to do things to nonsensical or illogical behavior on the part of the characters. DO NOT RECOMMEND 3/10TLDR: You're better off wasting your time on something better.

"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.

I can't deny the fact that the premise of The Other Side of the Door is more creative than the typical tales about haunted houses and vindictive ghosts. And the same can be said about the Indian locations, which employ the city of Mumbai as the frame of exotic rituals and spiritual practices which are a bit confusing, but at least different from the Christian iconography which is so common in the horror genre. Unfortunately, co-screenwriters Johannes Roberts (who was also the director) and Ernest Riera thought that that innovation was going to be enough, so he filled the story with the most worn- out clichés, including: forced shocks every 10 or 15 minutes; skeptical husband; night noises; visions which end up being simple nightmares; gratuitous dog victim; digitally deformed faces; and evil kid (or childish spirit, in this case). The mythology of the screenplay isn't clear, but it has a certain logic which isn't convenient to examine too much, while it's not convenient to deepen into the solution offered by the Indian Brahmins to break the spell. As for the cast, we find two solid actors (Jeremy Sisto and Sarah Wayne Callies) trapped into bland and generic roles which don't require too much effort. On the positive side, I liked the way in which Roberts and Riera brought an interesting twist to the typical car accident which adds drama to any tale, because it makes us think about what we would do under similar circumstances, while inspiring fear of something like that happening in our lives... not the apocryphal "horror" of ghosts and possessions, but the real anguish about the welfare of the family; in other words, another good idea into a screenplay ruined by an insipid and listless execution. However,I think I can give The Other Side of the Door a slight recommendation, specially to those people who don't know the previously mentioned clichés by heart. Stan Lee once said: "every comic is someone's first comic", and I guess that The Other Side of the Door can be the first horror film someone watches, and in that case, I found it moderately entertaining... and mediocre enough in order not to create excessively high expectations for this genre. It's better to start from the bottom and then going up in order not to get immediately disappointed.