what it does instead though is giving us an emotional insight into a family drama while creating an uneasy and disturbing atmosphere that grips your stomach till the very end.

horror films these days being a long time horror fan , but I can genuinely say I thought this was brilliant.

involving the boy himself. At least three or four scenes sent chills down my spine I'm not talking about the jump scares . It's very rare for a horror movie to make me feel such real fear. The story itself was very decent and different. The ending came as a big surprise, too. I completely agree with one reviewer who said it would have been better if we knew more about the boy when he was still alive. The movie had room for improvement, but frankly speaking, this is one of the most well-executed horror movies of the past 5 years. This is not a 5+ horror movie. It's easily a 6+. Strongly recommended.

wanted to be a horror movie, when it should have looked like a 'Del Toro'.

a great job playing the possessed instrument of evil for the final moments of the film. There are some "jump out" scares but I believe the lead actress does a good job of playing a woman who is first pleased then regrets what she has done to her son & her family by not heeding the warning she was given before the ritual. It was a good movie and had all the elements Pet Cemetery had way back when, evil dead kid, grieving parent, "the warning" don't do this but character does just that. Worth a watch.

Side of the Door benefits from a refreshing change of setting in its Indian locale. As a result, not only does the film look elegantly beautiful with its colours and scenery, but its plot also benefits from a less familiar cultural angle than most supernatural thrillers are afforded. The central menace here - a temple doorway through which the living can contact the dead - is so far removed from Western ideology and the recurring origins of its horror movie monsters that the film undeniably offers something that is at least different, if not completely new. The second act, where things go bump in the night as Maria questions the nature of the spirit she's allowed back into her home, is admittedly routine, but that's not the issue with modern horror; the issue is whether or not it can at least try to overcome this mundane narrative.This is where the screenplay's wider themes come in to sharper focus, as the audience encourages Maria to make the right choices while sympathising with her fragile state of mind. The horror isn't simply limited to creepy children and unseen entities, but also the lengths a parent is compelled to go to in order to be reunited with a lost child. It's most certainly enough to make the more pedestrian scares forgivable as you witness a family being torn further apart by their loss just as much they are the shadows that lurk around them.The Other Side of the Door won't terrify you any more than any other supernatural horror released this year, and that's because, by now, genre aficionados really have seen it all. What it will do, however, is linger with you much longer as you place yourselves in the shoes of an emotionally drained mother who, you understand, would do anything to see her son again.