Review of The Other Side of the Door (2016) by Orlando O — 10 Jul 2016

The Other Side of the Door is a dull supernatural horror film, that follows with stupid clichés of characters choices, cheap jolts of scares, and an unbelievable drama that is poorly written. Usually, cliché horror movies has characters being told numerous times about a bad idea and what not to do, like "whatever you do, do not open the door." One character is told about not opening the door after hearing voices to her dead son in a temple that brings there spirit closer to the living. We can all guess, what happens from there when she is hearing her son's voice. She opens the door, and every supernatural situations begin. Like her daughter is being threatened, and she is seeing these ritual natives stalking her and so on. These characters are poorly written, when it comes to the married couple and them having difficult time after losing there son in a car accident. And the mother is struggling with the survivors remorse, after she could only save one of her children. Conveniently, the mother's housekeeper knows a burial ground and a place she could hear her son one last time.

The film does have a lot of cheap scares that is rather boring than exciting. A lot of moments of waiting a scene roll by with an eerie temple and something about to lurk out of nowhere or seeing the characters walk around there big house and seeing something lurking in the background. The direction is rather tedious with dull characters, and lacking in scares and thrills.