An intimate disaster drama that gets under the skin like a virulent toxin.
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... 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 (Rory Cochrane) has just kissed his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack), off to work and started his day when the radio reports the detonation of a bomb. Announcements of additional explosions and an ominous, possibly toxic, cloud blowing ash across the L.A. basin quickly follow. With roads immediately closed off and phone contact elusive, Brad makes the decision to seal himself into his home, accomplishing the task with the assistance of a neighbor's handyman, Alvaro (Tony Perez), while awaiting his wife's return until... Right at Your Door perfectly portrays the realities of this kind of attack–the isolation and fear, the panic, the frustration, and the media misinformation. When authority arrives, the anticipated help may, in fact, be anything but. Gorak and his collaborators demonstrate a restraint and attention to detail that multiply the effect of both the personal and public crises. This is ambitious and accomplished storytelling, wonderfully conceived and executed, that stands apart from similarly themed, multimillion-dollar extravaganzas that have nowhere near the tension, thoughtfulness, and impact of this very independent feature. --© Sundance Film Festival [More]
Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane
Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane
Director: Chris Gorak
Director: Chris Gorak
Screenwriter: Chris Gorak
Producer: Palmer West, Jonah Smith
Composer: Tomandandy
Studio: Roadside Attractions
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Reviews for Right at Your Door
As a story, it's about twice as long as it should be, but as a horror experience, it's just about right.
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.
Not since the Jehovah's Witnesses came by has opening the front door seemed so terrifying.
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...
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.
While 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.
If 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.
After the Katrina tragedy, the filmmaker's fears are both well-grounded and keenly realized.
Right At Your Door effectue en somme un retour fracassant sur les deux derničres grandes tragédies ayant secoué la population états-unienne.
Crosses our real-life national nightmares with a cleverly constructed thriller to create a movie that is smart, impeccably acted, and extremely unsettling.
A necessary counter-argument to the wave of patriotic 9/11 movies, this homes in on the other side of disaster and rings horribly true in the wake of the Washington anthrax scare and post-Katrina New Orleans.
Right at Your Door takes a viewer on a harrowing, distinctly uncomfortable journey.
There are no zombies to distract from the plausibility of Right at Your Door. And that's what makes this smart, coolly horrifying American indie thriller one of the scariest movies you're likely to see all year.
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