Doors (film)

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Doors
Directed byJeff Desom
Saman Kesh
Dugan O'Neal
Written byJeff Desom
Ed Hobbs
Saman Kesh
Dugan O'Neal
Chris White
Produced by Brad Miska
Starring Josh Peck
Lina Esco
Wilson Bethel
Kyp Malone
Release date
  • March 19, 2021 (2021-03-19)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Doors is a 2021 science fiction anthology film written by Jeff Desom, Ed Hobbs, Saman Kesh, Dugan O'Neal and Chris White, directed by Desom, Kesh and O'Neal and starring Josh Peck, Lina Esco, Wilson Bethel and Kyp Malone.

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Plot

A man in his underwear walks through the forest feeling confused and lost.

As students sit in class ready to test for the SAT. Their phones are collected and locked away before the test starts. During the test Jake tossed a note to his friend but it lands next to Ash. ash picks the note up but the teacher looks up and asks her to read it.

Suddenly all of the phones in the locked cabinet begin to ring/receive notifications. The teacher's phone begins to ring also, visibly shocked from the news he heard he excused himself and placed a student in charge. Phones still ringing Ash breaks it open and hand the phones out.

A warning comes through the intercom system warning students to stay inside the classrooms. Turning on a nearby radio the students hear distressing news and turn it right back off.

Ash begins to hallucinate but Lizzy another student snaps her out of it. They open the classroom door to a hallway in disarray. Ash is drawn to the doors. And continues to hallucinate. Anthony opens a door and sees his brother standing there naked and boxing the clown. He stares at Anthony with an annoyed look and tells him to shut the door and continues his sparring session. Anthony is now extremely angry and yells at his brother to get back inside before the cops come and he gets arrested.

Cast

Release

The film was released in select theaters on March 19, 2021, on demand on March 23, 2021 and on DVD and Blu-ray on April 6, 2021. [1]

Reception

The film has a 46% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews. [2] Buffy de Latour of SciFiNow awarded the film three stars out of five. [3] Alex Saveliev of Film Threat rated the film a 6 out of 10. [4] Jeffrey M. Anderson of Common Sense Media awarded the film three stars out of five. [5] Cath Clarke of The Guardian awarded the film two stars out of five. [6]

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References

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  2. "Doors". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. de Latour, Buffy (April 28, 2021). "PORTAL REVIEW: CERTAINLY A PUZZLE". SciFiNow. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  4. Saveliev, Alex (March 23, 2021). "Doors". Film Threat. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  5. Anderson, Jeffrey M. "Parents' Guide to Doors". Common Sense Media. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  6. Clarke, Cath (April 14, 2021). "Portal review – close encounters of the disappointing kind". The Guardian. Retrieved February 29, 2024.