An Average Movie-Goer’s Review
No spoilers! If you would like spoilers – check out the Spoiler post
I love horror movies and if I’m going to watch them anyway, why not write an entertaining/funny review from the POV of an average movie-goer and not a professional critic.
Today we’re looking at 2016’s The Other Side of the Door
After the loss of her child, a woman heads to a sacred temple to speak to him one last time but instead unleashes an evil that goes after her family.
Is it Scary?
Nah, almost all jump scares are cheap, meaning it’s not story, atmosphere, or tension that make you jump, instead it’s the loud sudden musical sting. As for the other scares they’re nothing that will leave you trembling.
Unless you’re planning on spending your night at an old abandoned sacred temple, you won’t be scared and even then, you have other problems.
Review:
It took me a while to figure out why exactly I didn’t like The Other Side of the Door because the story concept is good but something is off. Sure it has cheap scares and questionable character choices but that usually doesn’t always make a bad movie.
After watching it twice I realized there is no real protagonist so there’s really no one to root for. Some of the main characters have no story arcs and one has multiple that last twenty minutes each. In-between this, there’s no character movement during the rest of the movie.
The movie and the concept had a lot of potential but it felt like it took the easy way out in order to make just ‘a movie’. When the movie ended I just felt “empty” about it, like it did the bare minimum.
On the positive side, the acting was well-done, dialogue was slightly better than okay, and the ‘monster’ design was simple yet effective. Personally I didn’t like The Other Side of the Door but it was mainly due to the ‘no real protagonist’ issue, others might not care about this therefore I would only recommend the movie if you have nothing else to watch.
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