McCormack and Cochrane can't transcend the cliched, meandering dialogue, so Brad and Lexi's dilemma never feels like anything but a didactic contrivance.
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08/24/07
Right at Your Door (2007)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:37
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Though Right at Your Door dips into melodrama at the end, it's an otherwise tense, effective, and eerily plausible doomsday scenario.
Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: With a finely honed craft and skill that belie its budget, Right at Your Door is a remarkable debut for its director, Chris Gorak. It begins on a beautiful, sunny morning in Los Angeles, where Brad... [More]
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Reviews for Right at Your Door
Right at Your Door is a tick-tock of post-apocalyptic paranoia and moral ambiguity that would have made for some taut psychodrama on The Twilight Zone.
08/23/07
An intimate disaster drama that gets under the skin like a virulent toxin.
06/13/07
What starts out as a horrible, even tragic set-up ends up feeling more like a so-so episode of The Twilight Zone.
09/23/06
Though not a zombie film (if only!), Gorak's shuffling contagion thriller lumbers and groans like the living dead.
08/23/07
While Brad fumes in his tight shots, Lexi is mobile.
10/19/07
As a story, it's about twice as long as it should be, but as a horror experience, it's just about right.
02/09/08
Movies about moral choices work if we can relate to the characters’ motivations, but that never happens here.
09/23/06
...a low-key yet sporadically tense drama...
01/31/08
A realistic chilling post-9/11 doomsday film.
02/15/09
Despite being a talky movie, the writing and dialogue are mundane with characters inserting the F-word into every other line to try to make things edgier and more intense.
08/21/07
The first reel is intriguing and the ominous mood is consistently right, but ultimately, this potentially timely feature shows its narrative weaknesses in being narrow-minded and underpopulated in characters.
06/12/06
Not since the Jehovah's Witnesses came by has opening the front door seemed so terrifying.
02/24/06
Another overstretched Rod Serling episode with misplaced irony that provides so many false moments of its own that its impossible to take seriously.
01/30/06
A healthy mixture of "On the Beach," and "Fail Safe," Chris Gorak's "Right at your Door" is possibly one of the most horrifying apocalyptic films I've seen in years...
08/15/07
Filmmaker Chris Gorak's unflinching focus, admirably impossible choices and unromantic naturalism make it a damned sight better than the much-hyped TV-movie The Day After.
08/22/07
Listening to these two irritating people in a movie that's not scary is exasperating.
08/17/07
Has an ironic and unpredictable ending.
08/24/07
Top CriticWhile this is admittedly not lighthearted mainstream fare, the subject matter is interesting and is handled in a manner that offers a compelling and sometimes unsettling 95 minutes.
08/23/07
Top CriticIf Rod Serling had had a shot at penning a post-9/11 scenario for The Twilight Zone, it might have come out something like this compact and creepy suspense thriller of apocalypse, Los Angeles-style.
08/23/07
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