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Knocking on Death's Door

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Basically, two scientists (husband and wife) are living at a house for a year to study a rumor of a haunting. The ghost becomes attached to the wife. Instead of studying the ghost, the couple decides to help it out. If I tell you anymore, I will give the movie away. This movie was done very well. The sound was great. If you have Surround Sound, you will be a little spooked. You will hear moaning from behind you, and walking around your house. I think for the price of the movie, it was a really good purchase.

Basically, two scientists (husband and wife) are living at a house for a year to study a rumor of a haunting. The ghost becomes attached to the wife. Instead of studying the ghost, the couple decides to help it out. If I tell you anymore, I will give the movie away. This movie was done very well. The sound was great. If you have Surround Sound, you will be a little spooked. You will hear moaning from behind you, and walking around your house. I think for the price of the movie, it was a really good purchase.

KNOCKING ON DEATH'S DOOR is a sometimes spooky, often times murky, little ghost story. It opens with the savage killing of a cop with an ax, and then segues twenty years later to the wedding of a parapsychologist and a scientist. They are "given" as a wedding present the task of investigating the supposedly haunted house where the murder took place. Once there, they find there certainly is a ghost hovering about, and they decide to try to find out who the ghost is and what it wants.
Although at times stiffly directed, the story moves along fairly well, and we get a few shocks along the way. Brian Bloom isn't very effective as the husband; Kimberly Rowe does well as the wife; and reliable David Carradine (a recent Golden Globe nominee for Kill Bill) plays a mysterious doctor.
No real plot surprises, but an entertaning, relatively goreless shocker.

i saw this movie for rent and decided to give it a shot. my hubby and i sat down and were watching it together. During the movie i had to go potty so i got up to go and he followed me to the bathroom and told me not to leave him alone in the living room. My hubby is affraid of ghosts and the movie had freaked him out enough for him to follow me to the potty. Any movie that can do that get's 5 stars from me!!!!

this was an ok movie, good special effects but entiarly predictable. good enough to view once.

This movie is pretty good. It does have a plot. The story is about two scientists who must uncover a mystery secret that looms over this house that was built in the 1900's. Brian Bloom does a great job in his acting. Kimberely Rowe also does very good, she is okay looking, nice body. You will not see any fight scenes in this movie. The film was shot in Ireland. I recommend this movie to all Horror fans who want to view a horror film without the cheezy sex scenes that appear in other gore films.

Pity the late Dave Carradine, ABC/CBS
Kung FU master (two series in that
genre; 1972-76, 1992-96). When he is
asked to carry a pic like this with
nobodies like Brian Bloom (Who?) and
Kimberly Rowe (Double Who?!?), you
know this Ghost Busters-meets-Ghost
Whisperer remake is gonna crash
sooner or later..

The Plot, if you can call it that,
involves a sleepy (make that sleazy)
New England town where twisted, scream-
ing souls of the not-so-dearly departed
hang out in the purgatory of Hillside
House (gee...do you think the octagen-
erian Roger (Gen.) Corman & Co., could
come up with a less original name)?!

Bloom and his senior partner (pardner?)
female Rowe slip around for 92 minutes
being scared, fighting and being haunted
by testy g-g-ghosts.

One little boy's soul is the only thing
worth watching this for and cheering for,
unless, you like me, bought it Dave Carra-
dine. Fortunately, I got it for $1.08 c @
P.J.'s Elite Thrift Shoppe on Caratoke High-
way, in North Carolina on the way to Nags
Head, today, 11 years after it was released
on VHS (a format I still love, though I do
have 37 DVDsabd 16 CDs now. And yes, I sold
the 8-tracks some time back.

Carradine was murdered (yes, murdered!) in
the Thailand one-and-a-half years ago. Murder
still being investigated. And until the Kill
Bill's his career was almost murdered by this
film and the Monster Hunter, another sucky
Corman Films productions. I hope Dave got paid
good money for this...Where is Calista Carra-
dine when you need her?

I watched the whole movie so it must have been ok
Kimberly Rowe was very good and looks like she has great potential

If I were interested in adult movies I'd have bought one in the first place. If there's something that irks me is gratuitous sexual teasing out of place, and this movie has it galore. Besides, the plot is weak and there's nothing original. Also, the characters were not convincing to me. The guy is a real ham! Buy it if you want a good sedative, though.