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The Gate
The Gate

6.0

The Gate

PG-13·1987·86m

Summary

Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.

Crew

Director

Tibor Takács

Screenplay

Michael Nankin

Reviews

D

Dan_Tebasco

March 16, 2017

6

Not too shabby.

Stephen Dorff is one of my favorites (in a long list of favorites mind you but one of my favorites none the less) so it was interesting to see him as a child in this one.

He's pretty good no Elijah Wood in his age or anything but perfectly decent for the lead in this.

It's a bit on the slow side but it's got some cool ideas and if I saw it as a kid I'm sure I'd appreciate it even more, might even been scary to me back then cause even though the cast are mostly kids it is rather dark in tone and manages to not feel too cheesy.

I (re?)watched Critters some weeks ago and I didn't think it held up very well in 2017 but this one did just fine.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$2,500,000.00

Revenue:

$13,539,458.00

Keywords

legend
eye
babysitter
stop motion
demon
sibling
backyard
record album
dawn
geode
eye gouging
occult
dead dog
moth
mud mask
hand
canuxploitation