Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a 1987 supernatural horror film called:
The Gate. Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
As we begin this film, we see a young boy named Glen riding his bike home. He enters,
calling out to his parents and sister, named Al. When no one replies, he goes and enters Al's room,
but again sees no one. Hearing music, he goes downstairs and sees the TV running.
He goes into the kitchen and sees a half eaten dinner, and then goes to the backyard. Glen
goes up into his treehouse and finds a doll. Suddenly, lightning strikes his treehouse.
Glen wakes up, as it all has been just a nightmare. He looks outside to see
some workers removing the same tree from his dream, as it has fallen in real life as well.
He finds a geode amongst the debris and decides to keep it. Later, he and his friend Terry repair
the ground where the tree came out. As they are working, Al falls partway into the hole.
The boys look into the hole, and Glen gets a splinter. They hear sounds from inside the hole,
and Terry finds a large geode. Glen then sees Al throw away some toys.
She goes to leave to go shopping with some of her friends,
telling Glen not to worry about the thunderbolt from last night.
Later in the backyard, Terry has caught some bugs in a jar,
but Glen insists that he is being cruel. Time passes and Glen's father sees the hole.
During dinner, Al and Glen's parents discuss Al babysitting while their parents are away.
Al insists that she's responsible enough to look after everything, and her parents agree.
Glen then gets grounded for the time his parents will be gone.
Later during the night, Glen expresses his discomfort with the hole he filled in the
backyard. He explains Terry told him someone died when their home was being built. His dad assures
that Terry has been confused since his mother had died a year ago, and leaves to go to bed.
The next day, the children's parents leave, and later, Al has a party at her home. Al
tries to keep things clean, and sees a boy across the party that she has a crush on.
Upstairs, Terry is with Glen, trying to break open the large geode he found. Terry is unsuccessful,
and tries to join the party. Glen tries to crack open the geode and somehow makes it.
Looking inside the geode, Glen sees some kind of incantation. They read it aloud, and outside the
hole begins to smoke. The boys then sneak down to the party, where a young man is telling a
scary story to the partygoers. Some people don't believe him, but some do, bringing up levitation.
The boys get spotted, and they try to levitate Glen. They begin the process,
and lift up Glen. To their surprise, Glen actually floats, and comes crashing down.
Glen then runs off, and both Al and Terry go to check on him.
Glen wants to call his parents, but Al suggests Terry spend the night instead.
Later, everyone goes to bed, but Terry gets up to use the restroom.
After he is done, he imagines that he sees the ghost of his dead mother, and goes to hug her.
Inside his room, Glen inspects his walls,
which are moving as if alive. Downstairs, Terry continues to hug his mother,
but in reality, he is only hugging Glen's dog that had recently passed away.
Al comes to check on the noise,
and she and Glen rush downstairs. The next day, Terry apologies, and goes home.
Meanwhile, Glen wants to call his parents, but Al tells him no. She then stops him from calling as
her friends visit. Terry is in his room playing music, and reenacts a portion of the record.
Terry then realizes something, and matches the symbols on the record cover with the writing found
in the geode. Meanwhile, Al gets invited to go out with her friends, but Glen insists that she stays.
When everyone blows off the events of the night before, Glen becomes angry and leaves. Her friends
volunteer to take care of her dead dog, and Al finally caves into leaving the house.
After, Glen looks over some old photos, then takes a present he had gotten for Al
under his bed and opens it. He throws the gift away, but then hears something in the house.
He goes outside and inspects the bug zapper, unplugging it. He sees the hole in the backyard
smoking, and then runs into Terry. Terry then tells the information he has found out,
telling Glen there is a demon about. They cover the hole, and then Terry takes Glen to his house
to show him what he has discovered from the music record. He shows Glen something
called the Dark Book, claiming that the band died shortly after making the album
based off the Dark Book. Glen doesn't believe him, but Terry further explains his theory, claiming
they accidentally opened the gate to let the demon come through Glen's backyard.
Terry claims they are in big trouble, and mentions a soul is needed to complete the ritual.
Meanwhile, one of Al's friends tries to find a place to bury the family dog.
Back at Terry's, the boys listen to the record album backwards,
listening to the incantation to close the demon's gate.
Al's friend then sees the hole in the backyard, and puts the family dog there.
The boys try to recite the sealing incantation, repeating it twice. Al arrives, and the boys
fill her in on the current situation. Al asks what is in the hole, and sees that it is sealed
up. Al then gives Glen a present, a flying model rocket that he had been longing for a long time.
As the siblings set up the rocket, Terry reads out more information about the advent of the demons.
Terry explains that the demons will also be looking for two humans
to solidify their power on earth, but requires a special person to seal them back below where
they came from. Glen then ignites the rocket, and then everyone celebrates as it takes off.
Later on that evening, all three of the kids are playing cards,
when they hear something at the door. Al goes to see who it is,
and then brings her friends inside for a sleepover. Glen and Terry find Glen's
father's gun, as well as a huge rocket, and Glen realizes his sister had got it for him..
They put it back, and Al and her two friends check up on the boys.
Al's friends and Glen get into an argument, and then everyone leaves.
Later that night, Al is reading, doing some research on the demons while Terry is asleep.
Glen then tries to go to sleep, but something is lurking around the house. He is then woken
up by something banging on the window, and goes to see the bug zapper still operating.
Suddenly a horse of moths breaks through his window,
swarming him. He yells for Al, telling her that the demons are back. He goes and shows
her the destruction in his room, and they try to wake up Terry. Terry appears behind
them and they are horrified to realize their dead dog is in Al's bed. A demon then grabs Al
and tries to pull her under the bed. The two boys try to rescue her, and successfully pull her away.
Everyone runs out of the house, only to see Al and Glen's parents. Glen rushes to them, but
soon realizes they are not his parents at all when they begin to attack him. Glen runs back inside,
and looks out the window but the demons are gone. Suddenly all the doors begin to close
in the house, and then All goes to the backyard to make sure things are safe.
Just then, some of the demon's minions chase Al back into the house.
The phone begins to ring, and Al answers, but the phone bursts into flames and melts.
Terry then reminds everyone that they must seal the hole in the backyard to get rid of
the demons. Glen mentions the sealing spells are in the basement, and everyone goes to get them.
They arrive in the basement, and find the spells. The spells and records then burst into flames,
and are unable to be used. Glen then suggests they use the bible to try and get rid of the demons.
Al's friends find a passage in the bible, and they go outside to the hole.
Al's friends run back inside the house while Glen, Al and Terry approach the hole.
Terry begins to read from the bible,
and the hole begins to shut, but then he stumbles and falls into the hole. His friends pull him out
and he continues to read, but ends up throwing the bible inside the hole.
An explosion occurs, and knocks them all out. When they wake up, the hole seems closed.
Later that night, a wall breaks open and a dead body comes through Glen's wall. Glen speculates
if this is the same construction worker that Terry had said died building their house.
Suddenly, the construction worker pulls Terry into the wall and it closes behind them. Upstairs,
Al notices an image of the construction worker in her mirror. Glen suddenly comes into her room,
and the construction worker comes out of the mirror, into her room.
Al then attacks the construction worker, and it breaks into a bunch of demon minions.
Glen runs out of the bedroom and Al holds the door shut
while he finds their father's gun. As he does so, a demonic version of Terry appears and bites him.
Al tries to help him, injuring the demonic Terry with a barbie doll. Al and Glenn hide in a closet,
but the man breaks through the wall. Al tries to shoot him but he is unfazed and takes her away.
Afterwards, Glenn comes to realize that Terry and his sister are the two human souls needed
for the demons. He also realizes that the rocket he had found near his dad's gun,
from Al, was the symbol of love and light needed to kill the demons. As he discovers this rocket,
the ground begins to break, and the floor collapses behind him revealing
a giant hole. Glen then tries to light the rocket that he has found, but is unable to.
As he's trying to, from the hole, a large serpentine demon with many arms appears,
along with a multitude of demon minions. This large demon doesn't attack Glen,
instead it touches Glen on his head and hand before going back inside the hole.
Glen sees where the demon had touched him, an eye has been placed.
Glen then goes inside his room, and sees the gate
fully open, allowing demons to come through into the world.
He then breaks a glass jar that is in his room, using that to remove the eye from his hand.
As he begins to take cover from the swirling winds and debris in his room,
he sees the present that he was going to give out, which is a battery powered rocket launcher. Glen
goes downstairs and sets up the rocket, using the battery launcher as the demon emerges again, this
time ready to attack it. He then uses the battery powered launcher to shoot the rocket at the demon.
Glen thinks that his rocket has done the job, but the demon seems unfazed, grabbing him and putting
him upside down. Suddenly, the rocket begins to take effect, and it bursts and explodes into
the night sky, sending Glen hurtling out into the front yard. It seems to have an immediate effect,
as the sun rises for the next day, eliminating the demons and clearing the air above the house.
As Glen returns home, the family dog reappears,
brought back to life. The dog is followed by Terry and Al, who are also unharmed. The kids
look around the wreckage and wonder how they will explain this to their parents as the film ends.
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