Caleb is an ex-marine who's drifting through life trying to find answers. He moves back to his childhood home to escape his nightmares. He finds that everything's different. His high school sweetheart is now engaged. His parish priest, to whom he always turned for support, is struggling with his own crisis of faith. And instead of getting better, the nightmares start coming true.
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Too many fans seem to be blown away
This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
The Worst Film Ever
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
CALEB'S DOOR is an indie mystery/thriller with horror elements. The story follows the protagonist, a low key David Boreanaz lookalike, as he visits a small town that he left years before. He chats to pretty much all of the townsfolk and tries to solve various mysteries that have been plaguing him over the years. The pace is so slow that it feels like this film goes on forever, and that's not a good thing.
I saw this movie because of the absolutely CRAZY review a Norwegian guy posted here. My favorite part - of the review not the movie - was when he compared it to a Polish movie from the 1970s... Is that even a reference? Anyway, I was disappointed to see the movie was nowhere near as bad as the review made it out to be and was, in fact, pretty good.The premise of the film is interesting and the actors and director all do capable jobs.I'm not sure what the guy from Norway was expecting from a low-budget thriller, but it's definitely a good way to spend an evening.
The only reason I watched this "presentation", to the end, was to see if there was any redeeming value at all. There wasn't!Unfortunately, I didn't read any reviews before wasting time on an amateurish effort by everyone involved with Calebs Door. Acting, direction, scenery, props--all score zero on a scale of one to ten. Hopefully, these comments will save other viewers from a mind-numbing journey through insipidity.If you decide to ignore this warning, be prepared for a soap opera treatment of a disjointed, lame storyline that beats you over the head with blatant morality. Both the writer/director and producer seem to take some special glee in insulting the intelligence of the viewer.
Caleb's Door is an adventurous first film that explores ways to record inner sensibility on film. Its likable and well played main character, Caleb, who strives to be a writer, is plagued by problems that will strike a chord with anyone familiar with today's news. Writer-Director Arthur Vincie doesn't go for the familiar happy ending, but instead paints a real (if imaginative) picture of a soul in distress, a soul that refuses to surrender to despair, regardless of the burden of his suffering. Vincie probes the roles of family and religion, as well as the effects of social climate on the sensitive person. He asks some probing questions about the power of love to heal as well as to hurt. Well worth a look. We'll hear from Vincie again.
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