Cert 15
94 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong supernatural threat, bloody violence
Is it enough that a horror film succeeds in making its audience jump or does it need to have a credible storyline to earn acclaim?
I mulled over this conundrum as I was deciding upon the marks out of ten I was going to award Johannes Roberts' The Other Side Of The Door.
This was because the director's use of sound twice prompted involuntary leaps from my seat but I thought its plot was bonkers.
In addition, its script was overloaded with cliches and was delivered without conviction by its cast.
Sarah Wayne Callies plays Maria who has set up home with her antiques expert husband (Jeremy Sisto) in India.
Sadly, their hopes for an idyllic life turn to tragedy when her car crashes into a river and their son (Logan Creran) is killed.
In bereavement, Maria becomes depressed and desperate - so, out of pity, her housekeeper (Suchitra Pillai-Malik) tells her off a remote temple in which the band between death and life is at its thinnest.
There, according to Indian legend, can be a last conversation with the dead through a door which must not, under any circumstance, be opened.
And guess what? Yes, Maria takes no heed of this dire warning and all hell breaks loose and the movie becomes dafter and dafter and dafter.
I long to watch a horror movie which is aimed at adults rather than 15-year-olds but I presume that they are both difficult to make and are not as easy to translate into box office bucks.
So, as long as the teenagers keep going to the cinema to watch them, the big studios will keep turning out the tripe.
Reasons to watch: it does make the audience jump
Reasons to avoid: its storyline is too daft to be believable
Laughs: none
Jumps: two
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 4/10
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