The Open Door

I don't know about you, but I'm getting pretty tired of 30-year-olds pretending to be teen aged clichés. And this steaming cinematic extrusion packs in most of Canoga Park's middle-aged bartenders and wait staff into one long, unintentionally hilarious carica-turd of high school archetypes terrorized by...oh who cares? I mean, really, if you can stop laughing at grown adults pretending to be misunderstood adolescents, you'd be bored by the plodding mash-up of the Wishmaster, When a Stranger Calls, and a plethora of cursed-media movies (like The Ring). Seems the producers spent their entire budget on by-the-numbers post- production effects you've seen a million times before, and stock sound effects.

In the end, it's an unintentionally entertaining wad of poor acting and amateurish direction, wrapping disconnected plot ideas and an obtuse sense of contemporary dialog. If you're as high as the producers who green-lit this thing, then this is the movie for you. Just try not to wonder how "high school students" have male pattern baldness.

I will start by going straight to the elephant in the room... the movie is BORING and drag so long before anything actually happen. When it finally did, its not terrible, but it goes out super fast and you can't remove the bad feeling of having sit an hour into boring "pretend to be teenagers" just going on with their lives in a very boring way.

Outside the lead, the characters are either not fleshed out and just serve as bodycount or they are very unlikable.

The set-up when the "horror" finally start is a mundane and basic as it could and despite a few "tries" the movie is never scary.

If this had been a 25-35 minutes short as part of an anthology movie and started when the "wishes" are actually made, while speeding up a bit til we get to the actual horror part, it could had been alright, like a 5 or 6 out of 10.

But as it is this movie is just so boring and does not really have any redeeming qualities. Acting is meh, the music is meh, the kills are basics, the movie is not scary, the characters are shallow, its bottom tier direct to video from the 2000s. This is a 3.5 out of 10 that i am sadly gonna round to a 3. I kept popping up the on screen menu to see how far i was into it.

In THE OPEN DOOR, Angelica (Catherine Munden) listens to a mobile, pirate radio station -999 FM!- that only broadcasts during the full moon. After spending hours listening to a host known as "The Oracle", Angelica learns to use her mental powers to get what she wants.

What could possibly go wrong?

The story is along the lines of THE MONKEY'S PAW, illustrating how getting what we think we want in the short-term may have long-term, unexpected consequences.

Ms. Munden is convincing in her vengeful role, and the radio DJ is pretty creepy. Recommended for fans of bizarre, supernatural movies...

Highly entertaining. This is probably the best horror spoof i've ever seen, it hits every cliché right on the head, perfectly. It's funny, i mean, seriously funny, from the intentionally poorly acted scenes of the innocent daughter and controlling over protective parents, to the bitchy backstabbing friend. The Open Door is good solid fun right from the start. The imagery used in some of the jump scares, not only did their job in making me jump out of my seat, but had me laughing my ass off after i realized what i just freaked out over (watch out for a mannequin head turn transsexual). This would be a great movie to watch with some friends over many a beer! It never stoops into the outright silliness of Scary movie, it actually takes on a silent seriousness to it, and strangely, somehow, keeps you invested in the lead character.

This film is just fun from start to finish. Rent it now!

Angelica, upset that she's grounded and can't hook up with this one boy at a party that night is sulking. That is until her catty "best friend" sends pics to her cell phone showing the boy being unfaithful. She takes it upon herself to call a ominous radio show where she vents and wishes certain people would leave her alone, little realizing the dire consequences that she has set in motion.

It all boils down to merely another light-weight 'teen scream' flick with practically no scares, hammy over-acting and clichés galore. Of course with that said, for its sub-genre and my more or less general disdain for teeny-bopper 'horror', I didn't find it absolutely awful. Yes that's the most positive thing that you'll get out of me in regards to this movie.