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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Gate, it turns an ordinary suburban home into a child’s-eye portal to supernatural danger, balancing playful adventure, tactile scares, and the vulnerability of young friends confronting something far bigger than them.
02
Why this pick
Its youthful horror-fantasy energy, suburban setting, practical-creature charm, and band-of-kids solidarity closely echo The Gate’s mix of childhood curiosity and escalating demonic peril.
03
Why this pick
A spooky, effects-rich dark fantasy seen through a lonely child’s perspective, with secret occult forces and an invitingly old-fashioned sense of danger rather than bleak horror.
04
Why this pick
This similarly uncanny 1980s fantasy-horror filters frightening supernatural events through a child’s imagination, sustaining a dreamlike, intimate unease instead of relying on relentless shocks.
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Why this pick
For The Gate’s eerie family-friendly edge, it offers children investigating a sinister mystery around their home, building atmosphere through strange signs, nocturnal dread, and youthful determination.
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01 / THE STORY
Twelve-year-old Glen has a nightmare of finding his home abandoned, then going into his tree-house only for it to be struck by lightning and collapse. When he wakes he finds that in his backyard, workers have cut down the same tree from his nightmare and unearthed a geode. Glen returns with older friend Terry to investigate. Though the workers attempted to fill the hole left by the tree, Glen and Terry breach the surface, finding a large geode. Glen catches a splinter and leaves a small amount of blood behind.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Glen
Mom
Paula
Terry's Mom
Al
Dad
Workman
Brad
