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Right at Your Door

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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.

Rated: R

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Dramas

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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An intimate disaster drama that gets under the skin like a virulent toxin.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/13/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

While Brad fumes in his tight shots, Lexi is mobile.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
10/19/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

As a story, it's about twice as long as it should be, but as a horror experience, it's just about right.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
02/09/08
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
DVDTalk.com

...a low-key yet sporadically tense drama...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
01/31/08
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

A realistic chilling post-9/11 doomsday film.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
02/15/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
06/12/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Not since the Jehovah's Witnesses came by has opening the front door seemed so terrifying.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
02/24/06
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

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...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
08/15/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

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.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/22/07
Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

Has an ironic and unpredictable ending.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
08/24/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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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.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
08/23/07
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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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.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/23/07
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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After the Katrina tragedy, the filmmaker's fears are both well-grounded and keenly realized.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/24/07
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Boxoffice Magazine

Right At Your Door effectue en somme un retour fracassant sur les deux derničres grandes tragédies ayant secoué la population états-unienne.

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

Crosses our real-life national nightmares with a cleverly constructed thriller to create a movie that is smart, impeccably acted, and extremely unsettling.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
08/24/07
Jim Hemphill
Jim Hemphill
Reel.com

This is a powerful and well-told debut from Chris Gorak.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
09/23/06
Joe Utichi
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus

Nightmarish.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
09/08/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/23/06
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

Right at Your Door takes a viewer on a harrowing, distinctly uncomfortable journey.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
01/24/06
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
08/22/07
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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