# The Gate (1987)

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**Runtime**: 86 min
**Genres**: Horror, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Tibor Takács
**Written by**: Michael Nankin
**Starring**: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan, Jennifer Irwin, Deborah Grover

> *Pray it's not too late.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Summer twilight, the air thick with the smell of cut grass and the thunk of a skateboard against concrete.

Three brothers pry open a rotting garden gate just wide enough to let the darkness leak through.

A child’s eye peeps from the other side.

**Mood tags**: body-horror, dread, slow-burn

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