Right At Your Door
Added 3/16/2010
What would you do if terror struck home? Would you risk contamination to save a loved one? Would you trust the government to help you if you were infected? Could the news be relied on for the truth? These are all questions that must be examined while watching RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR, an apocalyptic Suspense Thriller in the vein of BUG and REC. After a series of 'dirty bombs' encase Los Angeles in a poisonous cloud, a husband and his infected wife must struggle to survive on opposite sides of the plastic sheets sealing their home. Mixed reports delivered in a Wellesian fashion filter in through the radio and television broadcasts, while the couple must hide to avoid capture from suspicious military officials. The film strikes an emotional chord in the wake of 9/11, tapping in to real life terrors that hit close to home. Director Chris Gorak implements a hyper-kinetic filming and editing style that intensifies the frantic pace and panic in the streets, while the tiny windows into the outside world delivered through the media create a huge scope on a small scale. Just when the script seems like it has no where to go due to its cramped shooting location, jarring suspense sequences and sharp twists maintain a steady forward momentum. The limited cast members deliver powerful and effective performances that also serve to drive an emotional high from start to finish. Lock your doors, seal your windows, then pop in RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR for a smart and frightening disaster flick.
-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies
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Reach for the gaffer tape
Added 2/14/2010
This is a powerful indy thriller that demonstrates what can be achieved with a small budget as long as you have a good idea, a good script, and a good cast. The cinematography is impressive, as is the first time direction from Gorak. The performances are convincing, adding weight to this disturbing examination of the effects of terrorist activities on Mr and Mrs Everyman. Their struggle to survive makes for harrowing viewing, and, although it does run out of steam in the middle, it provides a memorable experience. It's a shame that a little humour wasn't injected, particularly during the slightly flat mid-section, and the ending, on reflection, seems just a tad contrived. But overall this is a muscular and unsettling piece of worthwhile cinema.
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Emotionally implausible
Added 1/25/2010
This movie frankly irritated me. The pivotal moment is where husband who has been distraught at the possibility of wife being lost in the anthrax cloud rejoices at seeing her return, but is too spineless to allow her back into THEIR house (probably paid for mostly by her) lest she contaminate him. From that instant, even if they were both to survive, that marriage is toast. This aspect is hardly even alluded to in the film itself - now, OK, wife reckons she is doomed anyway so perhaps it's not her numero uno concern at that moment ... but over a timescale of a couple of days, might it not cross her mind? .... hey, come on! Poisonally, I would not even want a spouse like him weeping over my mass grave and nor should she. Still, what goes around comes around .... even so, it's an hour and a half of my life, I won't be getting back.
Oh and here's a side issue for you, Amazon - why, oh why will you not ensure your product listing actually mentions all the key actors (but, preferably, leaves out most of the bit part players)!?!
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Great Product
Added 11/13/2009
Delivered on time and in perfect condition. Will buy from this seller again and again.
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claustrophobic panic
Added 9/22/2009
It's a kind of post 9/11 terrorist/disaster thing involving a series of dirty bombs set off in Los Angeles and the ensuing toxic fallout from them. The view is constricted to the claustrophobic panic of what one man sees and hears, so the viewer is left in the dark about a lot of things. It's a low-budget, independent type of film, but I was quite riveted by it nonetheless. Well, mostly. While I was dutifully chilled to the bone by the images, predicaments and consequences presented in the film, there were some things that didn't quite jell for me. Still, I give it thumbs up for scaring the bejesus outta me and turning my skin as cold as stone, like all good apocalyptic type stories do.
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Right At Your Door
Added 3/16/2010
What would you do if terror struck home? Would you risk contamination to save a loved one? Would you trust the government to help you if you were infected? Could the news be relied on for the truth? These are all questions that must be examined while watching RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR, an apocalyptic Suspense Thriller in the vein of BUG and REC. After a series of 'dirty bombs' encase Los Angeles in a poisonous cloud, a husband and his infected wife must struggle to survive on opposite sides of the plastic sheets sealing their home. Mixed reports delivered in a Wellesian fashion filter in through the radio and television broadcasts, while the couple must hide to avoid capture from suspicious military officials. The film strikes an emotional chord in the wake of 9/11, tapping in to real life terrors that hit close to home. Director Chris Gorak implements a hyper-kinetic filming and editing style that intensifies the frantic pace and panic in the streets, while the tiny windows into the outside world delivered through the media create a huge scope on a small scale. Just when the script seems like it has no where to go due to its cramped shooting location, jarring suspense sequences and sharp twists maintain a steady forward momentum. The limited cast members deliver powerful and effective performances that also serve to drive an emotional high from start to finish. Lock your doors, seal your windows, then pop in RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR for a smart and frightening disaster flick.
-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies
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Reach for the gaffer tape
Added 2/14/2010
This is a powerful indy thriller that demonstrates what can be achieved with a small budget as long as you have a good idea, a good script, and a good cast. The cinematography is impressive, as is the first time direction from Gorak. The performances are convincing, adding weight to this disturbing examination of the effects of terrorist activities on Mr and Mrs Everyman. Their struggle to survive makes for harrowing viewing, and, although it does run out of steam in the middle, it provides a memorable experience. It's a shame that a little humour wasn't injected, particularly during the slightly flat mid-section, and the ending, on reflection, seems just a tad contrived. But overall this is a muscular and unsettling piece of worthwhile cinema.
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Emotionally implausible
Added 1/25/2010
This movie frankly irritated me. The pivotal moment is where husband who has been distraught at the possibility of wife being lost in the anthrax cloud rejoices at seeing her return, but is too spineless to allow her back into THEIR house (probably paid for mostly by her) lest she contaminate him. From that instant, even if they were both to survive, that marriage is toast. This aspect is hardly even alluded to in the film itself - now, OK, wife reckons she is doomed anyway so perhaps it's not her numero uno concern at that moment ... but over a timescale of a couple of days, might it not cross her mind? .... hey, come on! Poisonally, I would not even want a spouse like him weeping over my mass grave and nor should she. Still, what goes around comes around .... even so, it's an hour and a half of my life, I won't be getting back.
Oh and here's a side issue for you, Amazon - why, oh why will you not ensure your product listing actually mentions all the key actors (but, preferably, leaves out most of the bit part players)!?!
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