Right At Your Door Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
| Mary McCormack | Lexi |
| Rory Cochrane | Brad |
| Tony Perez | Alvaro |
| Scotty Noyd Jr. | Timmy |
| Max Kasch | Corporal Marshall |
| Jon Huertas | Rick |
| Will McCormack | Jason |
| Emeka Nnadi | Synthetic Soldier #2 |
| Marisol Ramirez | Synthetic Soldier #3 |
| Hector Luis Bustamante | Store Owner |
| Alejandra Flores | Terrified Woman on Street |
| Christopher Rocha | Hurried Man |
| Soledad St. Hilaire | Hardware Woman |
| Nigel Gibbs | Another Officer |
| Jenny O'Hara | Lexi's Mother |
| Chris Gorak |
6.40 out of 10 (3782 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Could have been so much better
posted on 22 Aug 2009Okay. The film itself isn't that bad, that's why I gave it a 5, but I was always waiting for more. Could it be the anticipation of waiting for it or was it just not enough. Well here's were I think the film did well and badly. It grips you from the start and I thought this looks like it could hit the spot. But unfortunately the middle is a big let down meaning if you friends came round and wanted to watch it, you would have to take the dog for a walk or maybe clean out the shed your Mrs has been trying to get you to do for a few months now. The climax is fairly good but if you went to the Cinema or you were the one who payed for it. Sorry mate but at least your due for some good luck. Could have been so much Better.
Retarded
posted on 08 Aug 2009Yes, this movie is actually retarded.The idea is good, I will give them credit for that. But the execution is just a boring movie with horrible editing.First of all, why do we have to watch a minute of 2 people taping up a house??? 10 seconds is fine, we get the point!!! There are more holes in this movie than in a brick of swiss cheese. The dumbest one is the whole "twist". Supposedly some sort of bomb is spreading an illness to anybody who can't seal their home. The symptoms are severe coughing, and at the end the female main character (who's name I don't care about) looks as pale as a ghost. So the twist is the girl who was outside almost the whole movie, who was coughing, turning white and throwing up, was able to be saved. While the guy who sealed his home, and showed absolutely no symptoms (This guy didn't even sneeze!!), was infected beyond saving. Um... What?! If the guy was so infected, why didn't he show even one sign of it? And why was his wife, who was coughing up a lung, able to be rescued and presumably cured. (I say presumably because you never really know if she was cured or not, you just see her getting medical attention and being told she can be saved) Then there's the hole that the main character taped up his entire house, and won't even let his wife in. But when she throws a cell phone through a window, he just leaves the ash that comes in his home and does nothing about it. This guy is paranoid as hell and willing to let his own wife die, but he somehow doesn't mind a pile of ash sitting in his kitchen? Then we have to believe that this small pile of ash mutates in 3 days, and becomes what they call "airborne".If the original "ash disease" wasn't airborne, then why was the whole city getting sick? Why was his wife coughing up blood if she wasn't exposed to the "airborne ash"? We have to buy this BS about the ashes magically becoming airborne. It was snowing ash like it was winter in LA, and all of that ash falling down didn't become airborne. But the little pile of ash inside the main character's house mutated for absolutely no reason. (Don't expect them to explain it, like everything else in this movie) Every character in the movie (other than the 2 main ones) jump in and out of the movie for no reason. This Mexican guy was working next door, but he somehow decides to move in with the main character. Why didn't he stay in the house he was working in? Then, all of a sudden he has to leave to be with his wife, who no one in his family has seen since the explosion. Then there's the little boy Timmy. He's in the movie at the start, and the main character sends him home. Then halfway through, he comes back, and still he has no purpose. Thankfully, the wife takes him to the hospital, and we don't have to see him anymore. Again, that little boy serves absolutely no purpose in the movie. Then there's the wife's friend. He suddenly shows up at their back door (after a "scary" flashlight scene), and the next thing you know, him and the guy's wife leave to go to the hospital. When the wife returns, she says her friend shot a bunch of people and then drove off. What the? What was the point of him being in the movie? Then there's the 2 main characters. The movie spends way too much time on pointless dialog between them. The wife is completely annoying. Apparently Mary McCormack (the actress who plays the wife) thinks screaming and being a nut is considered acting. Maybe that's why all she can get are low budget movies. The male main character was flat, boring and irrational. He tapes himself and a Mexican stranger inside his house, but lets his wife in and the Mexican guy out. Then when a bunch of ash gets thrown in (cell phone scene), he just leaves it there. He doesn't even seal off that part of his house. And no, he doesn't avoid that room.And we can't forget the fact that at the beginning of the movie, the male desperately tries to find his wife (who was downtown). But police sealed off all roads leading to the city core. Somehow his wife gets back home. This is never explained, because you can't explain it. If the male can't get into downtown, how can she get out? If the creator of this movie is retarded, then I forgive him. Otherwise there's no excuse for a bad script and plot. Sure this is a low budget movie. But these types of movies are supposed to make up for their lack of funds with stellar dialog & plot. This movie has nothing. No money, bad dialog, and a slow, boring, pointless plot.If you like dumb movies, this Right At Your Door is for YOU!!!
great b-budget movie... worth renting. 1 star reviews are totally unfair.
posted on 25 Jun 2009A lot of people were giving this movie 1 stars. I think that is totally unfair. The movie operates on a very simple premise. I recommend this movie as an entertaining little rental. It brings out some of the emotions of fear, paranoia, and confusion that people felt after 9/11 using a small budget and set. I commend the film makers.SPOILERS What if 9/11 occurred, not in NYC... but as a germ warfare attack with dirty bombs? This movie follows one man as he deals with fear, paranoia, potential loss of a loved one, etc. People have been criticizing the movie for plot holes. They are not plot holes. The character did things differently than they would. That's not a plot hole.People have also said that the government said (SPOILER!!!) that the house was filled with a deadly variant of the virus and that this doesn't make sense, "how could they know what the air in the house was like". What they're missing is that the government was totally confused all along. I think this helped underscore how our government was giving such mixed messages after 9/11.I gotta say, I think many of the comments about this movie are unfair. This movie does not deserve one star reviews. Those reviewers have obviously never seen a Uwe Boll movie or Dracula 3000.
Massive Massive waste of time
posted on 07 Jun 2009I would have given this 1 star, but the acting in it was not that bad, and i don't want this to reflect their performances. It is obvious what the film tried to achieve, a disaster film on a human level without the budget and the bangs, but you get the feeling that this is a failed experiment and should not be reattempted. I watched it with four other guys around the same age (22). 23 minutes into the film and we were asking each other when it was going to start. Maybe this film hits deeply in America because of their fixation with terrorism there. That is the only reason i can see for being taken in by the film. The "twist" does not leave you thinking, wow didn't see that coming, but more, "wow is that it, thank god its over". its a painful watch for the person who chose the film, although with so many positive reviews they cannot be entirely blamed. There are points in the film when you think, "what is the point of filming that", such as when Lexie is on the phone to her brother. you don't care enough about the character to want to hear her talk about nothing to a completely new character. The child; what is the point in that story line. Same goes for the co-worker(?) who comes to take her to the hospital. You just don't care. Please don't waste a night on this film. i will make you so unhappy!
Wholly original thriller. Edge-of-your-seat realism.
posted on 28 May 2009What can I say about this film?It is certainly one of the most interesting films I have seen in recent months and most definitely already a favourite. It has everything a good, solid film needs: a disruption to the everyday equilibrium of life, the happily married couple / love interest story line and the ultimate threat that is laid upon them. And, as is ever common in contemporary cinema - a sting in the tail which left me speechless, and let me tell you that not many films have done that to me. (Either I've lived a sheltered film life or film fails to impress me, you decide.)Not only does the plot revolve around the married couple and show the devastating effects of the "live-or-die" scenario it has on them; but it never trails away from the bigger picture: - the neighbour's handyman, little Timmy, Mary McCormack's family - everyone's story is told in one way or another and adds to the tension and emotional weight behind this fine film.Both Mary McCormack and Rory Cochrane's performances are touching, IMO. Cochrane's initial confusion and agitated pacing stirs up the question of just HOW exactly would you react if you were in his shoes. McCormack's panicked return home and enraged denial at not being let in ask you if you could cope with your dearly beloved, infected and potentially lethal, sealed out of your home.All in all this film will slowly but surely gather a somewhat cult following as it gets more and more exposure.Enjoy the ride!
snore, snore, snore
posted on 08 May 2009I remember seeing TV spots for this film, and thinking it looked fairly promising, one of these low budget but effective thrillers. I was severely mistaken, it was not good, and it become one of the few DVD's I have just turned off halfway through as I was having so little pleasure watching it.There are only 3 or so real characters in this film, which focuses on a major terrorist attack in a LA, and the widespread panic caused. One of the characters is the husband who is at home when the strike happens, another is his wife who is in the city during the strike, and the other is a the neighbour's cleaner/handyman/chef (who cares?) who stumbles across the husband. The film intends to set up a tense and desperate situation as the man tries to contact his wife from inside the house whilst minimalising himself to the chemical element now polluting the surrounding air, and provide a gritty, realistic take on the situation by using hand held cameras and no nonsense cinematography.I say 'intends' as I felt it fell real short of what it was trying to achieve. It was incredibly boring to watch, and didn't impress me at all. Whilst watching, it felt as if I was ONLY watching to see if the film got anymore exciting or gripping, which it didn't, so off it went. It was poorly handled, and a waste of a good idea.
One of the most realistically conceived post 9/11 disaster flicks shot to date
posted on 04 Apr 2009Quite the solid independent disaster flick, Right at Your Door is a stellar example of making a limited budget work in your favor by effecting us more with two fine actor's insinuations then with huge, mass-extras-driven scenes. Chris Gorak, who has been involved behind the scenes with some modern day classics such as Fight Club and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, makes an impressively tense debut at the helm with this fast-paced, very realistic terrorism scenario executed over Los Angeles one day.From the outset Gorak infuses his survival drama with a tremendously brisk pace, highlighting the confusing and paralyzing fear which would engulf nearly everyone presented with the same scenario. Many parallels can obviously be made to the September 11th attacks as well as Gorak's not-so-subtle criticism of government rescue operations ala Katrina, but everything seems exploited in just the right way as to make the fear actually feel viable as we watch from the safety of our chairs.The third act does wind things down possibly a little too slowly compared to the full-throttle assault that was the first thirty minutes, although despite lapses in logic now and then I felt the movie represented an honest scenario the best it could up until a poetic, but underdeveloped and gimmicky ending.
A gray sky is falling.
posted on 02 Apr 2009Frightened, desperate, paranoid and worrisome describe Brad(Rory Cochrane), an out-of-work musician, as he hears the terrible news on the radio. His wife Lexi(Mary McCormack)has already left for work in downtown Los Angeles as bombs have gone off in three locations of L.A. including Beverly Hills. Not just bombs, but dirty bombs carrying toxic agents to cause a rain of gray unknown to cover the city. A neighborhood handyman Alvaro(Tony Perez)stumbles into Brad's house as word comes to seal homes with tape and plastic to keep deadly fumes from sliding in. Lexi returns, but Brad refuses her entrance into the house for she is obviously contaminated. The two must discuss their lives through the sealed back porch door. Aid arrives and this compelling situation takes a chaotic turn.
worst film of 2006!
posted on 19 Mar 2009this has got to be the worst film i have ever seen! some say its a horror, I've seen more scarier things in my bin, than in this film. there was no suspense, no horror no plot! i had no sympathy for any of the characters,it was bad acting, directing, and writing! so the idea that this could really happen, was plausible, apart from that, there's nothing.the reviews in the UK said 'the twist is so good you don't see it coming' the fact that they point out there is a twist means that there is no twist, you see it coming a mile away! thats not a twist! please please please save your money, rent it if you want but do not go and pay to see this movie, you will regret it! 2.5 hours of my life i will never get back!
Disturbing but excellent drama
posted on 21 Feb 2009I saw this at the Sundance film festival a few days ago (Jan 2006) and while I found the acting and directing top notch, I almost regret watching it. The story involves a very much in love couple who live in LA. During her morning commute, a "dirty" bomb goes off in the city (some type of chemical/biological weapon). The husband is trapped in the house with only the radio to tell him what is going on outside. The city's inhabitants are warned that if anyone comes to their house, to not let them in as they may be 'contaminated' and keep sealed in their homes. Well, his wife makes it home and she was only a few blocks from the blast area. He is now faced with a decision, does he let her in, risking almost certain death? Or does he make her stay outside until help comes. There is even more to the movie and a big twist at the end. The dialogue and images are powerful and frightening. Just the right movie for our terrorist-obsessed culture!
A riveting film, let down by a lazy ending
posted on 03 Feb 2009The basic premise of this film is one that intrigued me in its simplicity. The story takes place in Los Angeles where a series of "dirty bombs" (germ warfare) have been detonated all over the city. All residents are told to seal up their houses and not allow people who may be contaminated indoors. This puts our hero Brad (Rory Cochrane) in the awkward position of having to tell his wife Lexi (Mary McCormack) who he loves more than anything in the world that she must remain outside in the chaos.The film moves quickly and while you might wonder how such a premise can be stretched to 90 minutes, it succeeds very well. It captures the frustration, panic and desperation perfectly and shows the wide range of emotions the characters go through.The longer the characters are isolated from each other, the more paranoid the film becomes. They can't trust the police, they can't trust the media. They have no idea whether or not they are being told the truth and don't know where to go for help. All they have been told is to stay where they are until help comes.This paranoia is heightened by the fact that the film shows events only from Brad's point of view. The audience knows as little as he does and can only guess alongside him about what is to become of them.The major failing of this film is in its ending. Throughout the film, I had a nagging feeling that they wouldn't know how to end it and create some big twist to remedy this. I was correct. While the twist was logical and not altogether awful, I just felt that a simpler ending would have been more poignant. For a film that invests so much of itself in the emotions of the characters, it suffers from detracting from intimacy at the end.Unfortunately, a weak ending is something a film can't quite recover from. Having said that, however, it is still certainly worth a look for the great lead performances and the hugely captivating story.
Absolute Garbage
posted on 14 Jan 2009Save your money and time, please don't go to see this movie because you dollar was the only thing in mind when making it. If anyone was to take this movie to heart at all it will leave them feeling scared for their own safety for no reason at all. The movie is absurd and is only trying to make money on the fear that exists with everyday people which I think is horrific. It left me with the feeling that maybe if someone was to blow up Hollywood, they would at least stop putting out this kind of rubbish. The actors try and make it out to be more than it is, a midnight session of Hollywood bigwigs on how to make another buck. Just plain sad!
well made and disturbing!!
posted on 10 Jan 2009Chris Gorak's RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR, starts off with the simple set up of a couple getting up in the morning and preparing for the day ahead. Brad (Rory Cochrane) is making coffee for his wife Lexi (Mary McCormack) who is off to work. Once she is gone, Brad starts to hear over the radio, news of a series of bombings in downtown LA. Panic ensues, and Brad trys desperately to call his wife. Once its revealed that the bombs have let off deadly toxins in the air, Brad has no choice but to tape up his house and seal off anyone from getting in and this includes his wife, who turns back up and has been affected by the toxins. The set up is pretty simple though rather than focus on the bombings, Gorak focuses on Brad, lexi and there house. The only glimpses we get of the bombings are from far away skyline shots, created by visual effects, and through the audio soundtrack of the news reports. Gorak's film, made on a low budget, is simple and effective and plays like an extended version of one of those BBC 'IF...' documentaries, where possible and real situations are enacted. RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR, though owes a certain debt to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, where characters are isolated and have to protect themselves from the mass panic and threat that is outside of there home, and its this simple isolation set up that is effective for this film. The acting and photography are both top notch, and the limitations of the budget do not show. My only problem with the film, was the ending, which was good but does leave a few plot holes to question. Overall an effective and relevant film that plays on our fears of what we would do in a similar situation.
we're from the government...we're here to help you.
posted on 21 Dec 2008Brad & Lexi have just moved into a new house in L.A. Just after Lexi leaves for work, a series of explosions rock the city and all hell breaks loose. It seems a series of 6 dirty bombs have been detonated and ash from the fires is spreading throughout the area, and the city is a madhouse. Brad, of course, tries to go find Lexi, and yet main streets are being blocked off and stores are closing, although he does manage to score some duct tape. On the way back to the house he sees a man who has fled from the blast area shot and killed. Once home again he tries desperately to contact Lexi with no response. The neighbor's gardener takes refuge with him & together they seal the house with plastic & duct tape like the radio says. Now, ashes & debris are floating down from the sky, and where is Lexi? Of course concerned family members are trying to call, etc. Eventually Lexi finds her way home but Brad has sealed her outside the house. Promises of help keep coming over the radio waves but none seems to be coming. Eventually Brad fixes the "seals" so that Lexi can come into their bedroom but she keeps wandering off. She brings home a small boy who has been wandering the neighborhood, Timmy, whose parents had left him alone while they went to work, and eventually one of her co-workers shows up and they leave for a hospital. Eventually, highly-trained soldiers do show up and tag the house...as what? Then, Lexi shows up again & more soldiers turn up and guess what? Oh, I can't tell you. But if a dirty bomb hits YOUR area, don't seal yourself in your house. This is interesting to a point, but then gets a bit dumb, and it has the usual "we're from the government, we're here to help you" theme that, if it doesn't already strike fear in your heart, just might after this. Overall, it's mostly OK, but it won't give you any warm fuzzy feeling about how safe you would be in the hands of those who purport to take care of you in the event of an emergency. 6 out of 10.
Terrible, uncompelling, boring, worse movie i have ever seen in the cinema
posted on 21 Dec 2008Well what can i say, i sat down in the cinema not knowing what to expect i'd never heard of the movie and had been convinced by a friend to watch it. as the movie started a terrible boredom set in, the script was unappealing, the camera work at times appalling, and the acting that of some 60's b-movie. now i've got to admit i saw lionsgate and thought oh thats the b-movie company, and i was surprised that they had made a non-horror movie for the cinema. but i gave them the benefit of the doubt. There was one moment throughout the whole movie when it evoked some emotion other then boredom and disgust, and that was when Lexi put her had through the back door and dropped the phone and contaminated ash in the house, i felt anger that she would do that to her husband who she supposedly loved (allthough i got no sense of any connection between her and her husband) i feel bad for the actors it was not there fault they got the parts, in fact i admire that they made the appalling script come to life, its not there fault it was badly written. but they need work, the characters were flat and 1 dimensional, i felt myself wanting to leave the cinema in disgust and demand my money back, but i felt myself thinking they could have an amazing ending and that would make up for hours of painful viewing, but i was wrong. the ending was woefully inadequate. the idea behind the movie was great, but it was pulled off in a amateur way. i've seen £100 budget movies that were better then this. if it had not been for the big screen i might have been able to cut it some slack but alas they even chose the format of release wrong. all in all i would recommend that no one watch this unless you are bored out of your mind and have too much money and not enough sense.
Boring and mis-sold
posted on 01 Dec 2008A film that probably could have been 15 minutes long.I was expecting an action/disaster movie, instead I got an overlong and often boring human drama played out between a husband and wife. I found it unrealistic - so in love but when she first returns to the house he wouldn't let her in! And as for the 'twist' - I didn't see it coming but it was not so much a twist, more of a cop-out ending.Very dull and mis-sold on the trailers as some kind of action movie.Maybe my comment is negative based upon an unrealised expectation, but hey, blame that on those who put together the trailer and marketed this movie.Plus points could be the acting which was fine, but I often found myself paying more attention to the shaky camera work - why the director decided on this style during even the most heartbreaking scenes is beyond me.
Excellent Film - Don't be put off with the rating on IMDb
posted on 29 Nov 2008My wife and I almost didn't go to this excellent movie due to the rating level on IMDb.It's superb and tells a very real story in a graphic and emotional fashion.I suppose we all have an idea as to what we might do in the situation the main characters find themselves in and to that extent the actions of Brad didn't sit right with me, but that is the story and everyone must come to their own conclusions.I in particular found the very cool relationship between Brad and the handyman Alvaro very powerful. Alvaro's distress and concerns for his family providing a good balance with Brad's almost selfish actions, following the radio advice.A well acted and thought provoking film and more evidence that you don't need a huge budget and amazing special effects to achieve the desired effect.I'm sure the cynical will find fault as they always do but "Right at your Door" is well up there in terms of the best film seen by us for a few years.
Why bother?
posted on 12 Oct 2008i can't believe this film, i read in a magazine that it was scary, and tense, what were the people who commented thinking? this has got to e one of the worst films i have seen, and i have seen some really bad ones. the only highlight was the acting from Rory cochrane. A really bad ending just made a bad film even worse. this is classed as a disaster movie, you don't see any of the disaster, you don't really see any effects the disaster has, and if anything its like phone booth, only without the intensity and teasers, thats what these films are supposed to be all about! I'm surprised after putting their name to quality films like the Saw Franchise and Hard Candy, Lionsgate would want to lay claim to this one!
Ending is puzzling
posted on 10 Oct 2008I enjoyed watching the movie from a sci-fi perspective. But I didn't get the jest of why the husband was killed? The wife was the one exposed and he took all the precautions as directed to board up the house which he did. Then the loose end of her breaking the window and some ash being on the floor of the kitchen mutating into a lethal version? He had no symptoms. She was hacking away. Bizarre that they just gassed him to death. Really bizarre ending. It made no sense to me. There were a lot of loose ends to it as others has stated. The kid Timmy comes out of the car and the alarm goes off. Was he in there all the time? Where were his parents? In reality why would a kid his age be out without his parents?
Independent Thriller
posted on 24 Aug 2009My key note: I never ruin plot/synopsis/details/ending.In accordance, you will love this movie if you can appreciate a movie that takes an approach that defines the word 'thriller', while also accordingly cutting out the cheese that Hollywood so often feels they need to include (which often ends up being more insulting than substantive.)You will not like this movie if you expect action around every corner, huge payouts (which in my opinion would ruin this movie), or some sort of over-the-top ridiculousness that just isn't this movie.I sat down for this mainly because Mary McCormack is a huge draw for me (loved her in Private Parts), yet I got much more than I expected. The movie maintained a 7 rating throughout, then at the end dipped to a 4, only to minutes later redeem itself and pop to an easy 9 or 10. Enough said. You owe it to yourself to oblige this movie if you have some time to spare and consider yourself someone who can appreciate movies for what they set out to be (regardless of how in or out of the mold they are).