Some time ago I watched a 2009 movie called "The Hole" in which kids/teenagers find a mysterious hole in their garage, and then weird things start to happen. Now I watched "The Gate" and noticed a lot of similarity. Here too the main characters are very young, and they find a hole in their yard.
My problem with this movie was that it doesn't decide whether to be a children's movie or a horror movie. I mean, if you have kids as main characters then the horror level probably isn't going to be very extreme. But there are some scary looking things, so it's not a children's movie either. I just wonder to whom is it intended for?
I didn't care about the characters, and the plot also didn't go where I wanted it to go. Same thing as with "The Hole", it was not enough about the gate (to hell) itself like the dvd case promises. Seems like the hole is just an excuse for supernatural things starting to happen. But the special effects are quite good and that's probably the best thing about this film. Some surprisingly gruesome monster moments for a cutesy teen-fantasy-horror flick.
There is something charming about how very 80s the movie looks. So even though I didn't like the movie that much, I believe there are certain people who will love it. If such movies as Poltergeist, House, Lost Boys, and Gremlins belong to your favorite things in life, then you might be the chosen one to open this gate.
My problem with this movie was that it doesn't decide whether to be a children's movie or a horror movie. I mean, if you have kids as main characters then the horror level probably isn't going to be very extreme. But there are some scary looking things, so it's not a children's movie either. I just wonder to whom is it intended for?
I didn't care about the characters, and the plot also didn't go where I wanted it to go. Same thing as with "The Hole", it was not enough about the gate (to hell) itself like the dvd case promises. Seems like the hole is just an excuse for supernatural things starting to happen. But the special effects are quite good and that's probably the best thing about this film. Some surprisingly gruesome monster moments for a cutesy teen-fantasy-horror flick.
There is something charming about how very 80s the movie looks. So even though I didn't like the movie that much, I believe there are certain people who will love it. If such movies as Poltergeist, House, Lost Boys, and Gremlins belong to your favorite things in life, then you might be the chosen one to open this gate.