Evil at the Door

Good lord, i hate this movie but i also hate myself for watching it all.

Nothing about this movie is even passable, and the best thing ? They gathered all actors that are well known for being in bad movies that u don't recall their names or the name of the movies they were into.

To say this is like a made to tv movie is an insult to those movie, i seen youtube movies with better production values.

I hate myself for watching this, i really am the most upbeat movie watcher ever, to a point people say i get happy to know i watched a movie.

This one ? Hell no, hell no, please, stay away from it, if u have any regard to ur own happiness, stay away.

Arriving home from work, a stressed family man trying to deal with his sister-in-law's unexpected arrival finds that his home is subjected to a home invasion by a series of masked intruders carrying out orders from a mysterious cult leader and must try to survive the night.

For the most part, this was a generally underwhelming genre effort. Among the few positives here are generally kept to the efficiency and professionalism of the intruders. Operating under guidelines involving various mandates for how much time must be spent chasing down victims and how to operate while inside the house, the appearance of a well-oiled and intense unit is established quite well here providing a sense of eeriness and unease while they're moving through the house. Some of the scenes relating to the invasion with the group carrying out their orders while the family tries to avoid the group, all come off with a modicum of suspense as well but are all that really works for this one. However, beyond these factors, there's very little about this one that's worthwhile. The majority of the problems stem from the barely threatening aspects of the invasion itself. The whole idea of the society here carrying out the orders for breaking into the homes of others as some kind of mysterious secret cult is all completely underwhelming and unexplained. All the intel gathered about them comes from a comically overwrought recorded video message that still remains incredibly vague about what's going on as the entirety of the invasion plays out in the house where the group is going along with already-aware information of what to do yet say nothing clarifying anything to anyone. That, unfortunately, is barely enough to overcome the flaws found in the pacing and approach taken here. Since the film relies on a timer for all their activities to take place, nothing remotely interesting happens for long stretches of time featuring the various groups waiting around for things to happen. From the intruders waiting around outside the door to break into the bathroom politely during a home invasion, the sister that no one knows is there waiting under the bed for a spot to leave and the wife ignoring everything around her to take a bath, this lack of activity leaves long stretches of boredom here. Along with the utterly abrupt ending and lame CGI for the lone kill present, all make this one highly underwhelming and unenjoyable.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, and mild drug use.

Main characters are so hateful you not only don't give a damn if something bad happens to them, you actually wish it. Hard. Direction inexistent, editing amateurish. Avoid it.

This is 90 minutes of waiting to see "the locusts" (think Purge knock-off people) take out their targets. Snoozer...dialogue is terrible...acting to match.

All signs of wannabe filmaking, from the start you feel the tingling nauseaus feeling in your guts, due to flashing and fluttering visual techniques, the close up filmography and the ''motionfilled'' cameraangels are very revealing on the art of craftmanship.

Next is acting, couldve worked in a true crime tv series episode dramatization, but not in a fiction feature film, they are like gobsmacked, and doesnt seem to befriend the ambience of acting as being opposed to something evil. The heads nods and shakes and the foreheadwrinkles are like glued on, its more like strobelight fever and angst acting in front of a camera that rules.

So apart from a terrible script supporting shivering actors the story and plot is merely of the laughable kind, as the culprits are being directed from a underground eveil force, and all their deeds are done in a soup of brainwashness of generic genocide...where have peoples fantasy gone, has it been obliterated by the digitoxiounous digital era?

So if you wanna have a relaxed screenview without anger and resentment, how to claim your money back, stay away from this professional amateurcladden motheaten sammensummarium called ''evil at the door''. A 2 minus from the grumpy old man... and should we tolerate silly movies like this at all, i feel dum having taken the baith at my 666th try to find a reason why to even try watcing the next kid on the block .