The Boy Behind the Door

I can't even get into it. Starts off interesting but soon delves into pubes on a bar of soap. Really tried to enjoy it but so full of bad writing, continuity errors and becomes very generic half way though

Just nonsense.

On the other hand though I've ordered a Chinese takeaway bit I don't know what any of the food names mean so it's a gamble as to what I'm going to get.

Now do characters here (and kids furthermore) act and do stuff that you would deem ... not helpful to their situation? You bet they do. Is it the old and established, well if they did everything right, we wouldn't have a movie kind of thing? Maybe in some cases yes, maybe you feel in most cases too.

But having said that, the actors (kids - which I can't stress out enough are not easy to find - well not good actor kids like the ones you get here at least) are really not to blame for anything here - if you actually don't like the movie that is.

If like me you buy into the story and suspend your disbelief, you'll have quite the ride. A well choreographed and well shot one at that. For an independent production with a limited plot and time - that is all I ask for.

Heart in throat. Not only that but I actually had to look away a couple of times. I did have to remind myself that these are tween boys making these decisions. That way I could keep on watching it even though the little scared sweetheart kept opting to run away rather than deliver a second blow. Plus he was scared, real scared. When you add that to the de rigueur horror movie tripe, I mean, trope that victims make poor decisions you are left with a horror movie that throws a fright into you. What's not to love.

Not the best nor the worst but a decent little thriller. The two leads were very good with a so-so script and what seems to be a minimal budget. Not bad. Would I watch it again? No but I don't regret watching it.

The Boy Behind The Door has good and bad moments. The good things are the suspense building (nice intense moments that kept the movie alive), the decent acting (even from the kids) and the cinematography. The major bad thing about this movie was the extremely bad decisions that were taken by the kids but also by the villain. I get it that a kid doesn't think rationally but the amount of very bad decisions brought the quality of the movie down. It's good enough to watch once though, but I can't say I would watch it a second time in the future. For that there are better movies in this genre.