So Lions Gate has brought up a bit of that old retro horror with the rerelease of The Gate, now out on DVD. And as always, the question we’re out to tackle today is, is it worth your rental dollar?
The plot is a little convoluted, and basically requires you to suspend disbelief like no tomorrow. But after an old tree is pulled out of a suburban family’s backyard, it’s left a whole lot of trouble in its wake. Like a load of fairly valuable geodes. And a reeking pit in the backyard that just happens to be full of demons. TINY demons.
And now it’s left to the kids of the suburban family to take on the horde of tiny demons that have burst forth from the hole in the backyard.
See, this may sound just plain old loopy to horror buffs of the modern era, but this kind of thing happened ALL THE TIME in eighties horror flicks, especially ones that carried that malign PG-13 rating, the rating usually reserved for half-baked slasher flicks today.
And frankly, it IS loopy. How do we discover what’s going on under the surface? Simple–the characters learn about it from the album cover of a heavy metal band from “Europe”, and more than likely, from Finland. Because as we all know now, thanks to Metalocalypse and the various Lordi incursions, Finland and metal go together like peanut butter and jelly.
The farther in you get in this thing, the steadily more insane the whole thing gets. In fact, it’s like that loopy uncle of yours that lives in the attic and won’t stop screaming about how the government’s putting mind control suicide chips in the flouride in the water–it’s absolutely insane, and yet at the same time, it’s also entertaining in a creepy sort of way.
If you’re up for a history lesson, then The Gate will provide it. If you just want a creepy and fun little movie with some occasional scares, then The Gate will provide that too.
The Screenhead Ten Scale can’t help but give due props to this piece of the past, and thus issues a seven out of ten for being fun, even if absolutely looney.
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