Name: Portals
Genre: Horror
Released: 2019-09-07T04:35:12-07:00
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Movie Info

After a series of worldwide blackouts, millions of mysterious door-like cosmic anomalies appear on Earth. While many flee from them, the real terror sets in when others are drawn into these mysterious voids.

Genre:

sci fi, action, horror
Original Language:

English
Director:

Gregg Hale
Producer:

Alyssa Devine, Griffin Devine, J.D. Lifshitz
Writer:

Sebastian Bendix, Liam O'Donnell
Release Date (Theaters):

Oct 25, 2019 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 25, 2019
Runtime:

1h 25m
Production Co:

Bloody Disgusting, Pigrat Productions, BoulderLight Pictures

Cast & Crew

Deanna Russo
Leslie

Neil Hopkins
Adam

Ptolemy Slocum
Dr. Markonen

Michele Weaver
Frantic Caller

Clint Jung
The Chief

Salvita Decorte
Salvita Decorte

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Critic Reviews for Portals

All Critics (11) | Top Critics (4) | Rotten (11)

While the concept suggests mind-bending alternate-reality stuff, the not terribly cerebral reality of the movie offers more in the line of eyeball-gouging, blood-spurting, face-melting shock horror.

October 25, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Glenn Kenny
RogerEbert.com
Ultimately, the unusual structure seems like a cover for how underdeveloped this film's various segments are.

October 25, 2019 | Full Review…

Noel Murray
Los Angeles Times
Not a dimension to which you'll want to cross over.

October 24, 2019 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
It is difficult to believe that an actual first encounter with interdimensional beings would be such a complete waste of time.

October 24, 2019 | Full Review…

Ben Kenigsberg
New York Times
There's no extra meaning here, and if there is, it's really not worth pursuing. I was done with it when it was done...

November 7, 2019 | Full Review…

Korey Coleman
Double Toasted
Despite an intriguing premise, this film goes absolutely nowhere, opting for random gore as opposed to containing any real ideas.

October 26, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Joey Magidson
Hollywood News
The cohesion and payoff I was awaiting wasn't coming. Sigh.

October 25, 2019 | Full Review…

Anne Brodie
What She Said
Portals ensures connective tissue unites worldwide events within each localized story, but loses the inherent variety of anthology freedoms in doing so.

October 25, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Matt Donato
Flickering Myth
A sci-fi/horror anthology that tries to tighten the format, but still suffers the usual pace, flow and suspense problems of film anthologies.

October 24, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation
There's no character progression, nothing is explained, yet the audience is assaulted with a ton of pointless exposition, wooden acting, and a hilarious ending that's supposed to be tantalizingly ambiguous but instead reeks of desperation.

October 24, 2019 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Alex Saveliev
Film Threat
A poorly structured, forgettable horror anthology that leaves a lot to be desired.

October 24, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/10 | Full Review…

Adam Patterson
Film Pulse

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Audience Reviews for Portals

Dec 30, 2019

Much more interesting in concept than it was good in practice, Portals exists in this weird psuedo-anthology format, where it both is and isn't a series of related short films, and is and isn't one story that sometimes switches perspectives. This "in-between" factor works to the detriment of Portals which never really gets a cohesive movie out of its very cool idea.

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