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Right at Your Door
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Right at Your Door reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 57 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.0 out of 10
based on 17 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language and some disturbing violent content

Starring Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Tony Perez, Scotty Noyd Jr., Max Kasch, Jon Huertas, and Will McCormack

After multiple dirty bombs are detonated, spreading deadly toxic ash across Los Angeles, Brad inadvertently quarantines his wife, Lexi, outside their new home by safely sealing himself inside. With the city under siege and martial law in affect, Brad and Lexi struggle to survive with little supply, limited time, and no information--all the while separated by thin doors and thinner sheets of plastic. When "help" finally does arrive, it appears to be anything but. (Lions Gate)


GENRE(S): Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Chris Gorak  
DIRECTED BY: Chris Gorak  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 29, 2008 
Theatrical: August 24, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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91
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
There are no zombies to distract from the plausibility of Right at Your Door. And that's what makes this smart, coolly horrifying American indie thriller one of the scariest movies you're likely to see all year — a post-9/11 nightmare about terrorism, panic, and paranoia with real, waking-life implications.
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80
Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Ultimately a story about the American mindset post-9/11, Right at Your Door is also a much more personal tale, as it forces all of us to consider what we would do if the chips were down.
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78
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
This is frightening stuff, ably helmed (by writer/director Gorak, art director on the nerve janglers Fight Club and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), viciously acted, and altogether horrific in ways George A. Romero could imagine only through the lens of the darkest sort of fantasy.
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75
ReelViews James Berardinelli
While this is admittedly not lighthearted mainstream fare, the subject matter is interesting and is handled in a manner that offers a compelling and sometimes unsettling 95 minutes.
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70
Village Voice Chuck Wilson
Grounded hard by some terrific smoking-skyline special effects and by Cochrane and McCormack's intensity.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The two actors are solid, never overplaying scenes and capturing well that slow realization that their lives are never going to be the same.
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63
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
McCormack and Cochrane can't transcend the clichéd, meandering dialogue, so Brad and Lexi's dilemma never feels like anything but a didactic contrivance.
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63
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The movie has an ironic and unpredictable ending, but it doesn't wash away the sour taste of Brad's behavior.
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63
New York Post Kyle Smith
As frightening as it intends to be, but not enjoyably so.
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50
The New York Times Neil Genzlinger
The film, especially in its resolution, feels a bit like a “Twilight Zone” episode and might have been better at that length, but the acting’s pretty good, and the cinematography keeps things lively.
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50
Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
The characters devolve into boring narcissists. And the movie devolves into a broad-brush dark satire of emergency bureaucracy that feels a lot sillier than the post-9/11 panic attack of the first half-hour.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Pam Grady
Grows more and more incredible leading up to a twist ending worthy of an O. Henry short story that is as appropriate as it is ridiculous.
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50
Variety Todd McCarthy
Chris Gorak grabs the viewer by the throat in the first few minutes, but quickly fritters away involvement by concentrating almost exclusively on two characters who are both annoying and boring.
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50
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
First-time director Chris Gorak is no Rod Serling, and in his hands the enterprise tends toward the lurid, especially after his nifty third-act twist.
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50
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
This doomsday scenario takes up the first third of the movie, after which the tension dissipates badly and the husband and wife, now separated by plastic sheeting, wait for help to arrive.
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40
Los Angeles Times Staff (Not credited)
A dumb twist can be excused, however, if your characters keep the thing afloat, which makes perhaps the most unforgivable sin of this claustrophobic terror scenario the fact that we have to spend it with arguably the two least interesting people in Los Angeles.
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38
Boston Globe Ty Burr
The film is low budget but puffed with self-importance, and it offers proof that Hollywood filmmakers should probably steer clear of topics that actually matter.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

N O gave it a2:
Boring, boring, boring. The first ten minutes promise a tense, suspenseful, thriller. Then, husband, wife, and audience spend the next hour or so waiting around for something to happen. Finally, after a long boring movie there is a twist ending that doesn't make up for time and money wasted.

HWN D. gave it an8:
Excellent low budget thriller. Well made and well acted. Definitely recommended!

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