The Open Door

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.

A pirate radio station is granting callers their hearts' desires. But as some teenagers find out, be careful what you wish for.

One review here says this is a great spoof that captures your interest from the start.

Not so much. I don't think this is a parody at all and I found it rather tedious, hard to follow in parts and dull.

The setup takes forever and does nothing to further the plot.

You're literally 40 minutes into the movie before she makes her wish and by then you have a wish of your own -- that the movie would end.

By the time the action starts you have 20 minutes remaining! So you basically sit through an hour plus of nothing for the payoff and the payoff sucks.

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...

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.

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!