Rotten
It might be trying to make a point. If so, it sure is hard to hear it over the noisy screeches and cheap jump scares.
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
The Other Side of the Door
It was never meant to be opened.
2016 · 1h 36m · R Horror, Thriller
Overview
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Like all the best horror, The Other Side of the Door is concerned not just with what freaks us out on a gut level, but the deeply-repressed anxieties that truly terrify us.
Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
So tasteless in its depiction of India that it makes 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' look like a triumph of racial awareness.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Rotten
Along with writing partner Ernest Riera, Roberts pilfers odds and ends of Hindu religious practices and folklore to construct a middling ghost story that traces a vaguely Gothic outline, only to follow a wearyingly derivative trajectory.
Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
The type of sporadically silly and patently predictable horror pic that would look like filler on Syfy's weekend lineup, "The Other Side of the Door" brings virtually nothing new to the supernatural genre.
Geoff Berkshire, Variety
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