2016 · horror · thriller · music
The Other Side of the Door
Directed by Johannes Roberts1h 36m2016
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.
Our read: The Other Side of the Door (2016) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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