 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 stream / download | 🎙️ EPISODE 679: 04.03.23  I saw my daughter's brain humming today with a bad idea, a really bad idea but a creative one, and I realized that you have to have bad ideas to get to the good ones. I think this website is a bad idea, mostly. I think 9/11 was a real bad idea, totally. So Right at Your Door (a "tree movie" if there ever was one) enters the fray at an odd intersection between these two bad ideas, and — conveniently hahah — I find myself at a miserable crossroads now that it's time to write the review herein. But these words are my lashes and this post a singular crime in the dossier against me. It's always good to whip out the "disaster tag," however; I feel good about that. |
| By no means is this perfect, but its gritty and lo-fi aesthetic is really effective. With handheld camerawork that's never annoying and strikingly simple exterior shots of an ash-covered Los Angeles, or what they could manage to create of one, provide a workable base for this little disaster movie that could. Made in the wake of terror war on terror madness threat level orange no red fear fear scary fear times, a series of dirty bombs have gone off all around L.A. spreading toxic air around the massive, highly populated area. The danger is "right at (their) door" and residents are instructed to seal up all the windows and doors of their homes as best they can. Starring Slater, from Dazed and Confused (!), and Mary McCormack, from lots of things surely, as a married couple, Right at Your Door's probably doesn't make a lot of sense scientifically/realistically (the dirty bomb is viral in nature? the military could figure out that a small sample mutated into an ever worse virus in a single house in the middle of all this chaos??) but that doesn't matter much. It creates real tension without a lot to work with and the performances are commendable if not fantastic. I was surprised I enjoyed it as much I did and it feels nice to be surprised by a movie, especially a TRUE RANDOM one. Namaste. |
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Right at Your Door is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles. Chris Gorak both wrote the screenplay and directed the film in his writing and directorial debuts. It was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006, where it won the award for Excellence in Cinematography. It was released on August 24, 2007.
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