
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 believes 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 believes 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.
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| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanContaining some genuinely gutsy, unexpected twists, At the Devil's Door cheerfully plays with your expectations, pulling the rug out from under you whenever it damn well pleases. |
| Film Journal InternationalMarsha McCreadieMany fine talents are thrown into this witch's cauldron of chopped-off bits from other horror films, but it doesn't cohere. |
| New York TimesBen KenigsbergAt the Devil’s Door is reasonably absorbing but never scary or satirically sharp (despite references to mortgages and foreclosures). It mostly settles for inducing sensation. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThe movie is so consistently moody, and so focused on driving you towards a gut-punch finale, that even valid complaints seem negligible in retrospect. |
| Assignment XAbbie BernsteinAt The Devil's Door is not a horror movie that has much splatter, dialogue or, when taking the long view, originality. What it does have is real horror, which is the element most required here. |
| Examiner.comTravis HopsonPart Paranormal Activity, part Rosemary's Baby, it's never clear where the story is headed from one moment to the next |
| The Blogging BansheeMolly HeneryIt created such a feeling of unease leaving me thoroughly creeped out long after the movie ended (without necessarily having any big in-your-face scares). |
| VarietyDennis HarveyAt the Devil’s Door (which premiered at SXSW last spring under the title “Home”) ends up too tentative and underdeveloped, playing like an attenuated prologue for a bigger film. |
| SF CrowsnestFrank OchiengWriter-director Nicholas McCarthy's At The Devil's Door is a fright vehicle that dutifully tingles from time to time but somehow still feels strained in its creepy convictions. [An] atmospheric boofest... |
| Film ThrillsDeirdre CrimminsNot all horror films need to shake you to your core, and good jumpy films like this are fun when your expectations are low. |