This seems to have barely got a release but it's an absolute cracker.
Joe Dante has cooked up an 80s style kids horror movie. The setup is cliche as all hell: a couple of kids are dragged along to a new home by their single mother who's just starting to date again which the kinds are none too impressed by. There's a scary hole in the basement that goes nowhere and a super cute girl living just over the next fence. But it's the delivery that counts and here Dante pulls off something a bit special.
It's as charming and cine-literate as you'd expect something from Dante to be but strangely for a kids flick it's actually pretty fucking scary. Certainly has a couple of the creepiest moments I''ve seen in a film for years and I'd be quite circumspect about showing it too young kids despite there being not a drop of blood in the whole film.
Really worth checking out if you're ever in a nostalgic mood for an 80s style kids flick. It's the film The Gate wanted to be.
Joe Dante has cooked up an 80s style kids horror movie. The setup is cliche as all hell: a couple of kids are dragged along to a new home by their single mother who's just starting to date again which the kinds are none too impressed by. There's a scary hole in the basement that goes nowhere and a super cute girl living just over the next fence. But it's the delivery that counts and here Dante pulls off something a bit special.
It's as charming and cine-literate as you'd expect something from Dante to be but strangely for a kids flick it's actually pretty fucking scary. Certainly has a couple of the creepiest moments I''ve seen in a film for years and I'd be quite circumspect about showing it too young kids despite there being not a drop of blood in the whole film.
Really worth checking out if you're ever in a nostalgic mood for an 80s style kids flick. It's the film The Gate wanted to be.
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