Beyond the Gates (2016)

What a tedious, awful movie. No urgency in the characters' actions and the titular game requires very little skill or wit. The action is poorly choreographed and the dialogue is bland. The ending is simultaneously a relief and a disappointment. Avoid avoid avoid.

Three highlights: 1. The "Weredad" poster. 2. The brother's best-friend's hairline. 3. The occult store owner's acting.

Fmovies: Now considering the fairly high rating some may argue I'm too harsh here. Which will come of as a surprise to a lot of people who have blamed me for the opposite thing. But while I can see a bit of charme here (old video store, some nerds, a couple of nice gimmicks), the movie is just plain bad. And not in a good sense either.

Let's pretend you don't mind the simple nature of film quality (and I am putting it mildly here, and I also want to note that I didn't care about that, I guess you get used to it slowly if you don't fixate too much on it)! Let's also pretend the awful overacting is neither bothering you and you either like it or think it's so bad it's funny. You may roll your eyes on the cliché of a story, but also just go: Whatever, it's a Horror movie. If you succeeded to avoid experiencing any pain while watching, then congratulations. But I can not recommend this under any circumstances. Especially when there are way better movies for you to spend your time and money on

Overall a not unwatchable effort, a story line with certain potential is littered with some enjoyable blood-fest elements. Unfortunately Beyond the Gates is marred by slow paced dialogue, between one dimensional characters, who all clunkily perform their way to the end. The issue here is that before anything begins to get going, you're likely to be half out of your mind with boredom. The 88 minute run time, which was reduced to about 80 after the exclusion of the opening and closing credits, still felt drawn out.

When things did get going, Beyond the Gates takes some particularly odd turns to create none too convincing or all that scary "monsters". In retrospect the film could well have borrowed more themes from greats such as Hellraiser and utilized them to bolster its own version of hell (assuming that's what the movie was trying to get at).

This may well appeal to die hard horror fans, but you're likely to be disappointed.

Beyond the Gates fmovies. Horror movies are my favorite movies. My wife gets tired of me suggesting them. So it had been a week or so and we decided to give Beyond the Gates a spin.

I understand some of the negative reviews. The pace of the first half is a little slow, but the character development and plot are still interesting enough. The acting can be wooden at times, sure. The 80's feel to modern day is somewhat puzzling, but since it's all about a video store, forgivable.

The two requirements I have for horror movies is that they have to at least be a little scary and they have to be fun. This movie succeeds at both.

The actress who plays the host for Beyond the Gates knocks it out of the park. Her performance is one I won't soon forget - creepy and diabolical.

The overall feel of the movie reminded both my wife and I of the recent Creepy Pasta adaptation Channel Zero: Candle Cove which was just about the same level of scary and fun.

Give this one a go, it's worth a watch for sure.

To get it out of the way - i rated the movie a 4/10 for being pretty forgettable.

But that does not mean i do not appreciate some things it tried to do. It does however fall with its totally and utterly ridiculous story; a story that is so silly that it most probably is intentional. In short - the story feels like one of those cheap books that tells you to keep on reading on a certain page once you made a decision or like an amateurish table-top-rpg - all along with actors that both underact and overact. (kind of like many roleplayers i feel) Then there are the character archetypes that are so flat and one dimensional... they do not have a sliver of personality about them; and of course a story that lacks any logic.

Once you get that out of the way - you can start to appreciate some neat details though. There is a certain 90s vibe going on, which is dismissed by the rather modern still shots in many scenes. There is some 90s colouring and scenes - and then again more modern ones.

There is what feels like a certain homage to Lynch movies (curio shop owner and camera works in that shop) and some raw, low budget slasher core movies.

The tone of the movie itself is almost somber with extreme gore sprinkled in (that mostly looks deliciously fake) The dialogue consists of meaningless one liners for the most part - and the actors hardly act scene-appropriate.

But the movie actually was kind of funny to watch - utterly forgettable but fun - in all its cheesiness. And sometimes one wants to watch some cheese i guess.

However - i cannot recommend it. Maybe as part of a horror video night with friends (and alcohol...) There are "gems" in the movie that certain people may love and appreciate though. It has a very narrow target audience. (i am not it) But if you are - you may well very much enjoy it.

I can't be the only person that could not even sit through this garbage. The worst horror movie of 2017 IMO. I can't even name something I liked about it. Sure, Barbara Crampton is in it, but she must be slumming it. Her role was so dumb it's unbelievable. I am sure she did her best but the quality wasn't there.

The plot seemed cool but it was not done well, the actors don't seem to believe in their own dialogue, and the effects were beyond cheap. Maybe when other reviews say its fun and funny they mean because they think it's so bad it's good? Or maybe it's just got some good ratings from family and friends? I don't know but the good ratings convinced me to watch it and now I know they either confused this with a another movie or it was paid reviews. I don't trust IMDb anymore and I miss the message boards where you could find out more about a movie and more accurate reviews.

I got a group of friends together to watch this.Not one of the 6 of us liked it. Dare I say it, we detested it. We shut it off. I saw one review say it was a slow burn. I wish I could burn it.