Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Ashley RickardsHannah
- Nick EversmanCalvin
- Michael MasseeUncle Mike
- Mark StegerThin Man
- Catalina Sandino MorenoLeigh
- Naya RiveraVera
- Wyatt RussellSam
- Daniel RoebuckChuck
- Jan BrobergRoyanna
- Arshad AslamSeth
Recommendations
- 75
RogerEbert.com
The movie is so consistently moody, and so focused on driving you towards a gut-punch finale, that even valid complaints seem negligible in retrospect. - 50
Slant Magazine
An accumulation of dread in search of a properly fleshed-out screenplay to sustain it, the film plays like a show reel for writer-director Nicholas McCarthy's considerable craft. - 50
Village Voice
In his second feature, McCarthy shows he's mastered the things we already know scare us onscreen; next, how about something we don't expect? - 50
The New York Times
At 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. - 50
Los Angeles Times
At the Devil's Door goes right up to the threshold of being an interesting possession saga but never truly gets inside. - 50
Variety
At 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. - 40
The Dissolve
At The Devil’s Door is a frustrating display of craft desperately searching for purpose. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Lacks the potent scares and exploitative elements to truly please genre fans. But its thematic ambition and well-crafted elements mark the filmmaker as a talent to watch.
