The Pale Door (2020)
3/10
Westerned horror story
3 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This is one strange film that could have done with much needed exposition rather than allowing/forcing the viewer to solve a metaphorical rubik's cube with missing sides and no guidance on where anything fits.

This is set in 1800s and the first scene involves a family that is about to be home invaded. However, the family has strangely prepared the whole family for such a scenario & they execute the escape and children find their hiding place and guns & ready themselves to use them against the intruders. One of their parents does not survive this ordeal..

Next scene is the children all grown up with Duncan (Zachary Knighton) & Truman (Noah Argan) and are part of some Western outlaw group that plans to hijack a train for loot but instead they open a box containing a live, chained teenage girl & Duncan is injured during all of this. She promises them that they'll get their rewards & also they can help Duncan if they take her back to her home. The group agrees, mostly thinking they will receive a cash rewards, and makes the journey there. But they get more than they bargain for...

It felt like 2 films haphazardly combined into one. It doesn't work as a film. This is done better as a TV series in particular Wynonna Earp which has everything devoid in this film: likely characters, great humorous dialogue & action scenes that fit well in its storyline.
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