danron1 The movie is laughable.The plot is so contrived and none of the characters are believable. The character development goes nowhere. The mother is also, besides hot, not a good actress. With the right manuscript I have seen both of the main actors do well but this is just not working. For me this became a comedy quite a short while into the movie. And not a very good one at that.

Páiric O'Corráin The other side of the Door: A US couple live in Mumbai, running an antique business. Their son drowns in a car accident when the mother (Sarah Wayne Callies) only manages to save the daughter, sort of a Sophie's Choice. Their Indian housekeeper offers Sarah one last chance to speak to her son through a series of rituals, the final one taking place in a ruined Hindu Temple. She must not open the door, only speak to her son's spirit through it. But of course she opens it. "Mommy, Oliver is back." 7/10.

GL84 After the death of their son, a couple living in Mumbai trying to cope learn a mystical way of bringing them back to communicate with them again only to find that something sinister is following them home and must find a way of stopping the spirits' influence on them.This one wasn't that bad if an altogether decent supernatural affair. One of the few great parts about this one is the fact that it manages to get the conditions and practices of the ceremony into the story rather nicely. The way it details the instructions specifically, from the manner of how to get there and what to do when they arrive and in what precise order it must be carried out in order to work properly, these are all handled quite well and gives this the kind of set-up which brings the scenes in the temple itself their inherent creepiness. By going through the motions of retrieving the ashes, arriving and preparing the candles and the layout of the ceremonial trinkets that are prepared for the start of the ritual inside which is quite creepy and works due to these early set-ups as well as the details of the temple itself. Once it comes back to the rather impressive supernatural details later on, this one is even better with the series of rather chilling events showing the demonic spirit tormenting her and her family out in the slums of the city or the series of rather tense confrontations in their home which are rather fun and chilling from the accidental death in their backyard or the battle in the kitchen with the possessed individual. With so many of these scenes featuring the rather creepy and chilling looking designs of the spirits taken directly from Hindu folklore for their appearance, this makes for a much more shocking look that really helps this one, this one manages to really get some impressive elements here although it does have it's fair share of sizable flaws. The main one here is the fact that so much of what happens here doesn't have the slightest bit of interest here as it's just not that chilling or scary to go through the rather bland scenes of their marital problems or her physical condition which manifests itself following her return. There's way too much melodrama in this part which doesn't come off in the slightest bit interesting following the stellar opening half with the accident and the ceremony, so that dip really appears obvious with some really troubling and bland scenes that feature the wholly expected jump scares of shrieking ashen-faced specters only she can see that are just so expected and clichéd that they're not even that worthy of generating the jump. That becomes a recurring theme here where it tends to rely on this clichéd look and topic for the vast majority of it's scares and it really becomes old after awhile not only seeing the same type of scares but going through the motions again. Likewise, the other big problem area here is the fact that the ending is somewhat abrupt and just seems to end really without warning, stopping and just rolling credits which somewhat neuters the effects just shown beforehand. Otherwise, this one wasn't all too terrible overall.Rated R: Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and implied animal violence.

Argemaluco I can't deny the fact that the premise of The Other Side of the Door is more creative than the typical tales about haunted houses and vindictive ghosts. And the same can be said about the Indian locations, which employ the city of Mumbai as the frame of exotic rituals and spiritual practices which are a bit confusing, but at least different from the Christian iconography which is so common in the horror genre. Unfortunately, co-screenwriters Johannes Roberts (who was also the director) and Ernest Riera thought that that innovation was going to be enough, so he filled the story with the most worn- out clichés, including: forced shocks every 10 or 15 minutes; skeptical husband; night noises; visions which end up being simple nightmares; gratuitous dog victim; digitally deformed faces; and evil kid (or childish spirit, in this case). The mythology of the screenplay isn't clear, but it has a certain logic which isn't convenient to examine too much, while it's not convenient to deepen into the solution offered by the Indian Brahmins to break the spell. As for the cast, we find two solid actors (Jeremy Sisto and Sarah Wayne Callies) trapped into bland and generic roles which don't require too much effort. On the positive side, I liked the way in which Roberts and Riera brought an interesting twist to the typical car accident which adds drama to any tale, because it makes us think about what we would do under similar circumstances, while inspiring fear of something like that happening in our lives... not the apocryphal "horror" of ghosts and possessions, but the real anguish about the welfare of the family; in other words, another good idea into a screenplay ruined by an insipid and listless execution. However,I think I can give The Other Side of the Door a slight recommendation, specially to those people who don't know the previously mentioned clichés by heart. Stan Lee once said: "every comic is someone's first comic", and I guess that The Other Side of the Door can be the first horror film someone watches, and in that case, I found it moderately entertaining... and mediocre enough in order not to create excessively high expectations for this genre. It's better to start from the bottom and then going up in order not to get immediately disappointed.