2016 · adventure · horror
Beyond the Gates
Directed by Jackson Stewart1h 24m2016
Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father's video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game titled 'Beyond the Gates' that holds a connection to their father's disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.
Our read: Beyond the Gates (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive adventure · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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“You want nostalgic VHS-board-game horror with brothers, Barbara Crampton, and retro gore.”
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