The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Blistering performances.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I wasn't even aware of The Devil's Doorway until someone linked me the trailer on social media. It looked truly terrible but I took that as a recommendation and gave it a go. The film was really oddly hard to get hold of, but upon viewing it I prepared for the worst as the trailer was pretty dire.It tells the story of two priests who are sent to investigate a statue crying tears of blood in a home for "Broken women". You know the drill, weird things happen and everything goes to hell.Irish made this is yet another cliched demonic film with a messy plot and more questions provided than answers. We've seen this before, but done considerably better. Mostly shot in the found footage format so therefore meant we don't see much and experience a whole lot of "Shaky cam". That didn't do the already mediocre concept any favours.Coherent but messy.The Good:The Bad:Things I Learnt From This Movie:If you listen very closely you can hear the exact moment the Priests heartbreaks upon being told there are no children thereChristians still think the pentagram has something to do with Satan

Very suspenseful...camera work was very clever and keeps you on edge throughout just waiting for the next thing to jump out and scare the bejesus out of you. Father Thomas plays the old weathered cynic very well whereas father John is the excitable young 'believer', almost as if to mimic the two voices inside your own head...the 'sensible one' and the 'scared child' who still believes in ghosts. I also liked the fact that it was only 75 minutes long as it felt quite punchy all the way throughout. Not a dull moment. Recommend if you just want something that's gonna get your heart racing without a load of blood and gore like so many so called 'horror movies' these days.

So the Devil's Doorway is another found footage foolish endeavor. This one is dressed up to be filmed in the 1960's. OK, If I sat down and watched this movie, shot not as found footage, but a traditional movie... I would have likely rated this a 6. As it is, It gets a really strong 3. It's got some scares, the young girls voices whispering makes the skin crawl a little, and nuns are always scary. I usually don't like these new attempts at making a film look retro , as if it was made and filmed in a different era, but this one would have worked well...if it wasn't a found footage genre film. In fact I would even give it a 4 or 5 if it was a standard film that incorporated the found footage into it in some way. Instead The Devil's Doorway took the dumb road and made it all just a standard (and by standard I mean really bad) found footage piece of garbage!

Unless the Vatican had the world's earliest and smallest Hi-Def camera with built-in sound recording at their disposal - in 1960, this looks all wrong. The forced 4:3 aspect ratio, rounded vignette corners, and occasional faux sprocket hole appearances aren't enough to make one feel that this is truly old-time footage shot on gear and stock available at the supposed time period. They didn't even bother to add any grain, color or stutter effects to age the appearance. Did they not watch any cinéma vérité from the past to get an idea of what this should have looked like? Plus this is supposed to predate Cannibal Holocaust by 20 years; yet it looks insanely modern - as clear and decent as even the latest cellphone could shoot. And intermittent bulb issues to add spooky factor? Um. no. I mean there was a good and workable story of Satanic child sacrifice underneath this. The acting is panicky and professional. Had they just found some old 16mm cameras and shot it as a regular movie, I would have been more impressed. Plus of course it was the nuns.