It's hard to say if it's the script or the actors or both... budget isn't an issue to making a good horror film, let alone good enough to show at Frightfest. I think it's both, seem better shorts made by students than this. It's played almost with a nod to the camera that really doesn't work when you are shooting a supposed documentary. Can't believe anyone involved has attended a film class or learned about the need to not provide exposition through every scene.

Want a found footage film go watch the Blair Witch. Want a scary alternate dimension, go watch The Void (low budget genre flick which shows how it's done)

This is a found footage film, I don't particulary like the genre. However I had fun with it. As other reviewers have put it perfectly: they seemed to have fun with it. The fun shines through, however it is useless to look for a deeper narrative or a "science" part in the science fiction. Also the characters are not real, they do not react normal (you find a portal to another dimension and do not try to a) go to some authority b) make money of it. Ok, but after you use the portal and get to a hostile place you also do not equip yourself with some kind of real weapon / armor etc.).

The upside is that it is quite entertaining you want to know how it ends. But its a one time watch, perfect for an otherwise lazy afternoon or night.

What we have here is, effectively, a found footage film, about the making of a documentary about a found footage film.

So...a little bit of found footage inception, I guess you could say.

The story revolves around, well...a door.

A door that, each time you open it, leads to an alternate dimension.

We find ourselves following two young women, who have set out to investigate the disappearance of a woman named Emily, who went through the door...and was never seen or heard from again.

The door is freestanding.

So, as part of their investigation, the women bring it home to their apartment.

Which is when stuff starts getting inexplicably weird.

As it marks their foray into the otherworldly. The concept of this low budget horror flick is interesting enough: random isolated doors, left in dilapidated locations, act as portals to alternate dimensions.

She had been with her friend, Brian, when she went through the freestanding door.

Only to completely disappear after having passed through it.

Brian then posts the video of her disappearance onto youtube.

The two women find it.

And agree to make a documentary on the subject.

Which eventually leads them to find the door, and bring it home with them.

After which they proceed to use it to go to and from a series of different dimensions, in search of Emily.

Only to be led, through the looking glass, down a series of weird rabbit holes.

That culminate with a somewhat violent conclusion.

Unfortunately...while the concept here is intriguing enough...the narrative is incredibly incohesive.

There's just too much going on...and it ends up coming off as kind of random.

Sure, the overarching narrative is detectable at the beginning and the end of the film.

But the middle section is too disconnected from it...and kills the flow of the storyline.

I've got to give them props for their ambition, though.

Because what they tried to achieve, with the budget they clearly had, is laudable.

But it's just too convoluted to keep you engaged.

So it ends up being a bit of a fail.

But God bless them for trying.

2 out of 10.