2014 · horror · supernatural
At the Devil's Door
Directed by Nicholas McCarthy1h 31m2014
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.
Our read: At the Devil's Door (2014) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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