A fantasy and horror movie which does not rely on special effects,gore and monsters is a blessing in these days.Although ,it takes a certain time to take off,the movie is finally gripping ;its subject borrows from two very good (and sometimes a little overlooked) movies of the sixties:
-John Frankenheimer's "seconds" ,in which Rock Hudson is given a second chance at life from a secret organization. -Robert Parrish's "journey to the far end of the sun" aka " Doppelgänger" ,the second title says it all: a parallel world in which everything is reversed . I won't mention "matrix" which came much later.
"Die Tür" brings these elements all back home and is worth watching:his hero discovers by chance a door which opens the gate of a new world ,and thus finds the opportunity of saving his drowned daughter for he's taken five years back;but the price to pay is hard and he will not live happily ever after:in this nightmarish world,the values are inverted (see the police).And for once,the ending does not disappoint,for it may be a happy (or unhappy) end according to your own sensibility.
-John Frankenheimer's "seconds" ,in which Rock Hudson is given a second chance at life from a secret organization. -Robert Parrish's "journey to the far end of the sun" aka " Doppelgänger" ,the second title says it all: a parallel world in which everything is reversed . I won't mention "matrix" which came much later.
"Die Tür" brings these elements all back home and is worth watching:his hero discovers by chance a door which opens the gate of a new world ,and thus finds the opportunity of saving his drowned daughter for he's taken five years back;but the price to pay is hard and he will not live happily ever after:in this nightmarish world,the values are inverted (see the police).And for once,the ending does not disappoint,for it may be a happy (or unhappy) end according to your own sensibility.