Even before “The Other Side of the Door,” leading actress Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) had to deal with supernatural ghosts and a lost son in the horror film “Pay the Ghost,” where she played alongside Nicolas Cage. In addition to “The Other Side of the Door”, the Brit Johannes Roberts can already look back on a remarkable series of horror films in his filmography: As a director, he directed, among others, “Darkhunters” (2004), “F – London High School Massacre” (2010) and “Storage 24” (2012).
In “The Other Side of the Door,” Maria (Sarah Wayne Callies) just wants to say goodbye to her dead son, but during a ritual she accidentally opens the door between this world and the next. In India she lost her son Oliver (Logan Creran) and cannot get over this tragedy. In her grief, she turns away from everyone who could give her comfort, including her husband Michael (Jeremy Sisto) and her daughter Lucy (Sofia Rosinsky). When she learns of a supernatural ritual, she hopes to be able to contact her dead child one last time to say goodbye. So she takes a journey that takes her to an ancient temple that is considered a portal between the world of the living and the dead. Here she ignores the ban on opening a door shrouded in mystery. Instead of better accepting death in this way, Maria unknowingly pushes aside the curtain to the afterlife and thus opens a gate that would have been better left closed. The order between death and life is disrupted and Maria actually gets her wish fulfilled: the spirit of her son returns to her and the rest of the family - or is it not Oliver in the end who soon makes his presence felt in Maria's house? The dead at least don't have good intentions.