While some uneven plotting and awkward moments in character development mar the process, this is an illustrative example of how capably creepy independent American horror films still have the potential to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2019

At The Devil's Door is not a horror movie that has much splatter, dialogue or, when taking the long view, originality. What it does have is real horror, which is the element most required here.

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2019

Writer-director Nicholas McCarthy's At The Devil's Door is a fright vehicle that dutifully tingles from time to time but somehow still feels strained in its creepy convictions. [An] atmospheric boofest...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 10, 2018

It created such a feeling of unease leaving me thoroughly creeped out long after the movie ended (without necessarily having any big in-your-face scares).

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 3, 2018

Not all horror films need to shake you to your core, and good jumpy films like this are fun when your expectations are low.

| Aug 21, 2018

McCarthy lends some visual flair to the generic material, but the clumsy screenplay turns a potentially compelling premise into an incoherent mess.

| Oct 31, 2014

McCarthy's marvelously unnerving set pieces are in service to a headscratcher of a story that never coagulates.

| Oct 2, 2014

McCarthy shows he's mastered the things we already know scare us onscreen; next, how about something we don't expect?

| Sep 26, 2014

Though disappointing content-wise, McCarthy's sophomore feature still demonstrates admirable attention to things that usually suffer in more superficially flashy horror efforts ...

| Sep 26, 2014

Things pick up, but too late to really have any impact.

| Sep 25, 2014

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.

| Original Score: C | Sep 13, 2014

Part Paranormal Activity, part Rosemary's Baby, it's never clear where the story is headed from one moment to the next

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2014

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2014

This is the sort of cinematic patchwork from which Brian De Palma made his name, yet the style and playfulness of Mr. De Palma's work are absent.

| Sep 11, 2014

Haunted houses and devilish deals are done to death, but Devil's Door, to its credit, tries a few things new and takes a handful of unexpected twists.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Sep 10, 2014

Creepy atmospherics aren't enough to compensate for the muddled storyline.

| Sep 8, 2014

An accumulation of dread in search of a properly fleshed-out screenplay to sustain it, the film plays like a show reel for writer-director Nicholas McCarthy's considerable craft.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2014

Deals up some infernal imagery that chillingly toys with concepts of identity and the unknown, yet these individual moments do not collectively build to anything of note.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2014

Like a giant gob of peanut butter without any bread, McCarthy's film is an empty smother of tense disquiet that tastes fine, but sticks to the roof of the mouth.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2014

Many fine talents are thrown into this witch's cauldron of chopped-off bits from other horror films, but it doesn't cohere.

| Aug 7, 2014