The Pale Door

2020

Action / Drama / Horror / Western

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 40 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.4/10 10 3786 3.8K

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Plot summary

The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.

Director

Aaron B. Koontz Photo
Aaron B. Koontz

Top cast

Mark Adam Goff Photo
Mark Adam Goff as Outlaw
Pat Healy Photo
Pat Healy as Wylie
Bill Sage Photo
Bill Sage as Dodd
Jonny Mars Photo
Jonny Mars as Vernon
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1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jwilsop 5 / 10

Not great, not terrible.

This could have been a really great, creepy little b-movie with just a few minor tweaks. The first 20 or so minutes really had me drawn in. The acting was a little inconsistent but passable. Wardrobes and sets felt pretty cheap but I can usually overlook that. But then the witches show up. And I mean cartoonish, pointy-nosed, cackling Wizard of Oz witches. But they're also zombies sort of? Spraying blood everywhere and just ruining the good occult horror vibe the film had going. Some other reviewers have drawn comparisons to From Dusk Til Dawn and yeah that does come to mind but Pale Door had absolutely none of the self aware, self deprecating humor which made that work. It's like there was one idiot producer involved who at the last minute decided, "it needs monsters, though." And they just shoe-horned in these absurd witch-zombies that I cannot get past. Shame on whoever thought that those noses had any place in a horror movie that was trying to take itself at all seriously.
Reviewed by nebk 3 / 10

Pale Bore or Pale Snore...You Decide

The Pale Door has a somewhat cool poster and had a decent idea or two. Unfortunately that's about it in terms of the positives of the review. The negatives far outweigh them. The story takes close to 40 minutes to actually get going and is mostly boring. It's about a group of western outlaws who end up trapped in a cursed town inhabited by witches. They want to capture the youngest gang member who is the brother of the wounded leader and had only joined the rest of the gang in a heist for the first time. He is apparently pure hearted and would sustain the witches for a long time.The acting is nothing to write home about even though most of the main cast has worked on some very good movies in the past so the problem must be with the bad story, script and dialogue none of which are engaging or exciting. The action is kind of funny at times and so are the effects but not in a good way. More in a cringeworthy way. The sets look very fake and as someone already pointed out the clothes are all too clean. The story has a few similarities to From Dusk Till Dawn but that movie is superior in every possible way. It would be better to watch that instead. Overall this is best avoided or forgotten as soon as possible.
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