Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
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- TriviaThe small demonic minions are played by actors in rubber suits, and shot in forced perspective.
- GoofsWhen Glen is descending the crumbling staircase there is a brief shot of his legs searching for a foothold. The legs are clearly those of a female stunt double.
- Quotes
Terrence 'Terry' Chandler: May the old devils depart! May they burn in the fires of their own damnation! May they freeze in the infinite golden darkness of their own hideous creation!
Glen: Isn't that kind of insulting?
Terrence 'Terry' Chandler: I guess it's supposed to be. I mean, we're trying to get rid of them.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Making of 'The Gate' (1987)
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A great horror-fantasy
Don't let the PG-13 rating and the "if it's not gory and new, it's no good" critiques fool you. This could possibly get an R today, and is a great horror-fantasy that I loved as a kid and still love now. All of the actors turn in great performances (including a very young Stephen Dorff who proves here that he was a great actor from the start), and I have no idea how anyone could dare to criticize the quality of these great special FX. To me, "The Gate" is an example that sometimes a low-budget film, if done well, looks much better than big-budget swill could ever wish to be. The only less than totally impressive special effect is the big monster that shows up, but it's no better or worse than the computer-generated monsters we're accustomed to today, plus the fact that it WAS done on a low budget should make it more worthy of respect when it probably looked state-of-the-art back then. All of the rest of the creatures are great. Like in "Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn" (another great movie with even lower budget creature FX), if I were to run into some monsters in real life, I would expect them to look as real as this! Another thing I loved about this was the fact that, despite idiotic people who write all the time that this movie is making a comment against heavy metal, "The Gate" actually poses an interesting idea that sometimes the knowledge of some of these heavy metal rockers can be positive and helpful, no matter how "evil" their image might be. If you watch this movie, you might see what I mean. This is definitely a PG-13 horror movie that deserves a lot more respect than it's gotten.
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- Also known as
- Gate - Die Unterirdischen
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- Budget
- CA$2,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $13,539,458
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,258,063
- May 17, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $13,539,458
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original ratio, open matte)
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