In an attempt to do her job well, a young beautiful and ambitious real estate girl named Leigh, who is asked to sell a house with dark secret of its past, the thing that brings terrible for her, as upon meeting a disturbing teenager girl, used to live in the house, incidents come to climax, as she has been chased by an evil spirit.
let[s] genre's demonic possessions & reality's housing repossessions collide at an uncanny crossroads where sociopolitics and scares meet. At stake is the American dream itself, emblematised here by a picket-fence home in the suburbs...
Though disappointing content-wise, McCarthy's sophomore feature still demonstrates admirable attention to things that usually suffer in more superficially flashy horror efforts ...
In his attempt to pull "At the Devil's Door" inside out, McCarthy has forgotten to retain a gripping consistency to the work, rendering the effort distanced when it should snowball into something menacing.
The movie is so consistently moody, and so focused on driving you towards a gut-punch finale, that even valid complaints seem negligible in retrospect.
Despite its thick, creepy atmosphere and sinister tone, the biggest flaw At the Devil's Door has is that it is constantly knocking on the door of a nightmarish journey and yet it isn't tenacious enough to take that first step inside.
