This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Michael (Jeremy Sisto) and Maria (Sarah Wayne Callies) have given up the city that never sleeps to live in India, the part that looks like paradise and doesn't have all those third world beggars. Maria has trouble coping with the loss of her son Oliver (Logan Creran) who she accidentally drowned Susan Smith style. She is informed on how to talk to her son one last time, by going to a remote temple only known to the locals and those with Google Earth. Here the boundary between the living and dead is weak. After spreading Oliver's ashes and waiting until night, she can speak to Oliver through a door, which she is instructed never to open. She gets it all correct, except for maybe that one thing, which you would know if you are old enough to read the title.Soon they have visitations which are initially pleasant and then formula. The film was meh up until the last 10 minutes which were great.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. The "R" and BCFF 15 ratings I consider a bit high.

Directed by Johannes Roberts and Roberts co-writes the screenplay with Ernest Riera. It stars Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Sofia Rosinsky and Suchitra Pillai.Still struggling to come to terms with the death of her young son, Maria (Callies) is told of an Indian ritual where she can say goodbye to her son one last time, under one condition. The condition is that the conversation will be on the other side of a door - a door which simply must not be opened...There were far worse horror films than this released in 2016, that's not to say this should be a selling point for The Other Side of the Door, but it at least is effective in what it does. The problems really are that it's all very cliché ridden, but how many horror films do not have clichés anyway? This is one for those who are just after a few genuine scares, some creeping dread like atmosphere, and a nifty ending. It doesn't tread any new ground, and it comes off like the bastard child of Ringu and Pet Sematary, but sometimes a safe horror with clichés is all you need for a decent night in with the lights off. 6.5/10

Or, just go to Home Depot equivalent in India and DIY.Seriously. Why hadn't anyone thought about putting a lock on that door? So many people warn about opening it, so many followers spend their life cleaning up the mistakes of the visitors and nothing good comes from it. So lock it up, baby!Backing up, the movie's about a tragic loss of a child that leads the mother to a door she can speak to her ghost son. Only, like it's spelled out above, she isn't allowed to open the mystical door to the "other side." Would there be a movie if she didn't foolishly open it and chaos ensues for the remainder of the family until the returning ghost is busted?2016 is truly turning me around to my least subgenre of horror: ghost stories. Still not a fan, but after this very well shot movie and The Conjuring 2 that easily and triumphantly made up for not just The Conjuring 1, but many more of the same exact haunted house movies that's flooded the market for a decade now. Hollywood, you keep making intelligent and original ghost stories like these two and you'll finally earn my respect and dollars.Yes. I did like this movie. It's not perfect, though. It's got all the stereotypical ghost jump scares that stopped being scary in 2004…or even much before that. It's even got the corny, overlong egg-shaped mouth opening that never stops making me laugh – first seen for me in I Am Legend. And for only about 90 minutes, it seems longer than it should've been.But, the initial premise. Oh, dear God, the first premise. Not just original, well-acted and believable, but heartbreaking enough for any full-length movie. A mother of two is in a sinking car and has only one opportunity to save one of her children. This scenario alone brings this movie from just a haunted ghost story to an elevated and deep movie. That's the lead into the mother going to the ancient door to speak with her son – the one she had to sacrifice to save her daughter. Now, that premise, is also somewhat original, but it's also a double-edged sword: despite what she's been through, and who could ever put themselves into her shoes?, how dumb do you have to be to open a door that not only people warned you about, but also you believe enough to know this is about to get…terrible.The movie's worth watching. Mercifully it is around the hour and a half mark, so even though it drags in Act Two, it's quick enough to get all the better parts in.***Final thoughts: I hate seeing actors type-casted. I know a lot try their best to break from their mold and comfort-zone to avoid that, but even then, there are times I just simply can't get past their past. The lead here, Mother-May-I-Return-From-The-Dead?, is Sarah Wayne Callies. You may not recognize the name, but if you're a die-hard fan of The Walking Dead as I am, it might be as hard for you as it was for me to see her as anything but Rick Grimes' wife on the show. She does have depth, especially for the decision she had to make with her children, but dang it, she's just Lori Grimes to me.

Considering this filmmaker from the B movies, this is not a bad one, probably it may remain as his best work for sometime. Definitely not a great horror film either, yet the rating it has received is a very low. The title says everything, but there are other things in the narration to get engaged with. Obviously a bit slow, and patches between the scenes should have been developed better. But overall film was slightly above average if you welcome a blend between two different cultures and themes.It was the tale of a western couple who settled in Mumbai, but the film opens with their plan to start a family and later it moves to six years forward. Now they're grieving with their son's death, especially the mother with a guilty feeling. Then she comes to know a place to make a contact her dead son and to say proper goodbye. But what follows is the supernatural chaos in the house and finding a way to fix everything is the remaining film to reveal.The concept was really wonderful, but the film was designed to be not scary or maybe those parts were just a cliché. You know those dead guys in the make-ups try to scare you stuffs. The story wise, it is refreshing, but should have been added more to it to make further interesting. It was just a 90 minute film, yet feel somewhat lengthy. Actors were decent, the locations were okay, the production was much better and the overall film was acceptable kind. Except easily predictable scenes, not bad for a casual watch.6/10