The Devil's Doorway (2018)

The 1960s setting is great as is the acting. Unfortunately, they forgot to write an intelligent, compelling story. And so many loose ends. They start to investigate the "miracle" of blood tears flowing from Virgin Mary statues. Doesn't that sound creepy/disturbing? Why would the Catholic church consider that a miracle? They somehow jump to the conclusion that it means one of the women or a nun is pregnant. (?) That leads nowhere until one of the women says a pregnant women is locked in the basement. Of course, she's possessed so we're subjected to 15 minutes of her screaming and attacking people, a bed shakes, crosses turn upside down, she levitates, etc. I mean, really? Then they find--and film--a room filled with Satanic stuff. When they show the head nun the room moments later, all the Satanic stuff is gone. What's the point of that? And the priest don't even mention it again. Then it turns out the girl is a virgin what she's pregnant. And no one seems that stunned; even the Dr. is sort of, "Weird, huh?" They set up all these little scenes that go nowhere. Oh, and one priest hears children whispering to him, "We're going to kill you." Whispering kids are pretty non-scary to me, so this doesn't add any frights to the movie but of course, he has to race up and down the hallways to find the ghost kids. And while this is supposed to be found footage, there is a SOUNDTRACK for all the jump scares, along with scary music when they go to find the baby the girl gave birth too. And the end is a mess--I think the nuns are attacking the priests (you can't see a thing) and then the older priest is killed and then...film over. It's really a mess but again, such a great setting, well acted. Just lacks a great story.

Will first of all i don't usually watch found footage movies but this film is freaking good the jumpscares are not bad but the way they edit it the movie 60's old camera effect it's a nice touch the story is good but little bit confusing overall it's a good moive to watch if you don't have any thing.

So the Devil's Doorway is another found footage foolish endeavor. This one is dressed up to be filmed in the 1960's. OK, If I sat down and watched this movie, shot not as found footage, but a traditional movie... I would have likely rated this a 6. As it is, It gets a really strong 3. It's got some scares, the young girls voices whispering makes the skin crawl a little, and nuns are always scary. I usually don't like these new attempts at making a film look retro , as if it was made and filmed in a different era, but this one would have worked well...if it wasn't a found footage genre film. In fact I would even give it a 4 or 5 if it was a standard film that incorporated the found footage into it in some way. Instead The Devil's Doorway took the dumb road and made it all just a standard (and by standard I mean really bad) found footage piece of garbage!

I'm not big into found footage, but this one is sort of footage being shot, not found. The priests are genuine, not typical Hollywood Catholic priests. The Magdalene laundry was a real place, and it wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing happened in those horror houses-there were more than one in Ireland until the early 1990s, I believe. You sort of know what is happening, but you still want to see it to the end. Very scary, a few minor jump scares, and one or two major ones. Ghoulish, hellish, and pure evil. And the fact that there is an atypical ending actually supports the integrity of the priests while bringing into stark relief the evil of the antagonists.