Fresh
McCarthy shows he's mastered the things we already know scare us onscreen; next, how about something we don't expect?
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
At the Devil's Door
It's looking for a home.
2014 · 1h 31m · NOT RATED
Horror
Directed by
Nicholas McCarthy
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At the Devil's Door
Overview
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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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
28%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Though disappointing content-wise, McCarthy's sophomore feature still demonstrates admirable attention to things that usually suffer in more superficially flashy horror efforts ...
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Rotten
Things pick up, but too late to really have any impact.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
This is the sort of cinematic patchwork from which Brian De Palma made his name, yet the style and playfulness of Mr. De Palma's work are absent.
Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
Rotten
Creepy atmospherics aren't enough to compensate for the muddled storyline.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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