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The Gate [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Horror |
Format | NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | Tibor Takács, John Kemeny, Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rowan, Louis Tripp |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 22 minutes |
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Product Description
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While his parents are away, a teenager and his friends discover that the "gate" to hell is located in his backyard.
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Special Features Include:
Audio Commentary with Director Tibor Takacs, Writer Michael Nankin, and Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook
Audio Commentary with Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook, Special Make-up Effects Artist Craig Reardon, Special Effects Artist Frank Carere, and Matte Photographer Bill Taylor
Isolated Score Selections and Audio Interview with Composers Michael Hoenig and J. Peter Robinson
THE GATE: Unlocked -- A Conversation between Director Tibor Takacs and Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook
Minion Maker -- An interview with Special Make-up Effects Artist Craig Reardon
From Hell It Came -- An Interview with Co-Producer Andras Hamori
The Workman Speaks! -- An Interview with Actor Carl Kraines
Made In Canada -- A series of interviews with many of the local Toronto-based cast & crew including Production Manager Robert Wertheimer, Costume Designer Trysha Bakker, Third Assistant Director Kathleen Meade, ''Minion'' Performer Jonathan Llyr, Actor Scot Denton, and Post-Production Supervisor H. Gordon Woodside
From Hell: The Creatures & Demons of THE GATE with Randall William Cook and Craig Reardon
The Gatekeepers with Tibor Takacs and Michael Nankin
Vintage Featurette: Making of ''THE GATE''
Teaser Trailer
Theatrical Trailers
TV Spot
Still Gallery
Behind-The-Scenes Still Gallery --Lionsgate
Product details
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Item model number : 43449056
- Director : Tibor Takács
- Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 22 minutes
- Release date : February 28, 2017
- Actors : Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan
- Subtitles: : German
- Producers : John Kemeny
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B01LTHZVLK
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #975 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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and its still a great movie
1. Despite its corniness, its villains are creative. When I compare this 80's classic to more modern horror, say Drag Me to Hell, the saving grace of The Gate is that we can see how disturbing and grotesque the demons actually are. A lot of modern "demon" movies (which have grown tired and stale over the years) don't use as many special creature effects, and that, to me, does them a huge disservice, because it's truly one of the things that kept The Gate so entertaining over the years.
2. It's cheesiness doesn't feel forced. It feels more like a "so bad, it's good" situation. I think they tried their best with The Gate, and its corniness was a product of its times.
3. It's hilariously nonsensical. Normally I'd consider this a huge downside to any film, but somehow the confusion in this movie almost benefits it. You leave the film with so many questions and never any answers... which is kind of how I'd feel if there really was a gate to Hell in my backyard, come to think of it.
4. The creature effects were on point. It always makes me miss the monster movies of the eighties, where the villains actually looked and behaved terrifyingly. Horror films are so focused on jump scares today because they assume actual creatures won't scare anyone, and I think the blame lies on indie B monster movies released straight to video. Hollywood... monster movies need a comeback. A Quiet Place was a good start, maybe move on from there.
5. Nostalgia. It always brings me back to my adolescence.
The Gate is a corny, silly film... but somehow it's one I never forgot, unlike a lot of the trash I see nowadays.
The story is surprisingly simple. The main character, 12-year-old Glen (Stephen Dorff), dreams about a tree in his backyard being destroyed by lightning. He wakes up to find workers removing the tree (the treehouse in it smashed) and trying to fill in a big hole where the tree’s roots were. Glen and his friend Terry (Louis Tripp) play around in the hole and find a geode. Glen and his 15-year-old sister Alexandra (“Al,” played by Christa Denton) are left alone by their parents for a long weekend, with Terry sleeping over and Al having a house party over the express wishes of her parents (a very common 1980s movie trope).
Long story short, the boys figure out the hole where the roots were is a gateway to a domain of evil gods or demons and they have accidentally opened it by not only the tree being removed but by a few things that the boys do or accidentally happen over the course of a day or two. The rest of the film revolves around the boys and Al trying to seal the gate and deal with the demons that pour from it. Along the way they also encounter ghosts and zombies and see a number of things that aren’t really there (such as Terry seeing his dead mother).
The movie is sort of hard to follow in terms of logical rules of why things happen, what works, what are the operating rules of the gate, the demons, how to defeat them but the film doesn’t suffer too much from it. It has the feel of what a young teenager would imagine happen, of being heroic against demons and zombies, with lots of adventure and spectacle on spectacle but not a situation where it is good to ask too many questions. If you want hard and fast rules, you won’t get it, but if you want a fast-paced film of giant demons splitting into groups of tinier demons, or zombies bursting from walls, or interdimensional rifts opening, or ghosts of dead parents appearing, than this is your film.
The best part of the film is definitely the special effects, especially the demons. Though sometimes the plot lacks a little, once demons are on screen it was excellent. Really nicely done effects (and not gruesome or gory or either but Harryhausen-esque).
The movie also is surprisingly tender, as the bond between two friends (Glen and Terry) and a brother and sister (Glen and Al) are key to defeating the demons and closing the gate, with surprisingly good foreshadowing to these bonds being important (most especially the sibling bond).
It was fun, I can see why kids or teens watching this growing up in the 80s or early 90s would have loved it. I would have loved it had I seen it at that age. The 80s feel of music, hair, etc. was fun to see too.
Just rented it with my own kids, and they enjoyed it but weren’t nearly as creeped out as I was. Probably because they’ve seen scarier and better quality movies than I ever did at their age.
Still, given the right context (like a slumber party or something), the movie still is fairly creepy. And it’s really fun to see Stephen Dorff’s mannerisms showing through even at his young age.
Highly recommend this movie for some fun, creepy, slightly cheesy, old school horror movie enjoyment :-)
Top reviews from other countries
Das Cover C ist auffällig schön gezeichnet und matt gehalten. Das Booklet fällt recht dünn aus, die abgebildeten Fotos wirken verwaschen und entsprechen zu keinem Zeitpunkt der BluRay Bildqualität. Die fällt nämlich sehr gut für das Filmalter aus. Die Farben sind kräftig, die Konturen scharf gehalten, mögliches Bildrauschen ist mit bloßem Auge nicht zu erkennen. Besonders positiv sticht hervor, dass die Szenen bei Nacht, welche hier reichlich vorhanden sind, nie künstlich bzw. weder zu hell noch zu dunkel wirken. Details sind hier deutlich zu erkennen. Vom Bild her wurde daher alles richtig gemacht. Auch beim Tonformat von DTS HD MA 2.0 gibt es nichts zu beanstanden. Der Sound kommt in angemessener Lautstärke daher.
Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit dieser feinen VÖ. Freunde des kleinen Horrorklassikers dürfen beim Upgrade hier bedenkenlos zuschlagen, aber natürlich auch Interessierte, die Stephen Dorff gerne mal in seiner Kindheitsrolle erleben wollen.
Reviewed in Germany on November 1, 2018
Das Cover C ist auffällig schön gezeichnet und matt gehalten. Das Booklet fällt recht dünn aus, die abgebildeten Fotos wirken verwaschen und entsprechen zu keinem Zeitpunkt der BluRay Bildqualität. Die fällt nämlich sehr gut für das Filmalter aus. Die Farben sind kräftig, die Konturen scharf gehalten, mögliches Bildrauschen ist mit bloßem Auge nicht zu erkennen. Besonders positiv sticht hervor, dass die Szenen bei Nacht, welche hier reichlich vorhanden sind, nie künstlich bzw. weder zu hell noch zu dunkel wirken. Details sind hier deutlich zu erkennen. Vom Bild her wurde daher alles richtig gemacht. Auch beim Tonformat von DTS HD MA 2.0 gibt es nichts zu beanstanden. Der Sound kommt in angemessener Lautstärke daher.
Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit dieser feinen VÖ. Freunde des kleinen Horrorklassikers dürfen beim Upgrade hier bedenkenlos zuschlagen, aber natürlich auch Interessierte, die Stephen Dorff gerne mal in seiner Kindheitsrolle erleben wollen.