Is Someone At the Door?

The day starts out like any other. You get up, get ready for work or school, down your breakfast at your usual unhealthy pace, head for the door and……..what’s that fine dust falling from the sky?

If you live in L.A. that mysterious ash is the result of several dirty bombs that have been detonated throughout the city by an unknown group. This is the premise behind director Chris Gorak’s new thriller “Right At Your Door” which will be in U.S. theaters this Friday, August 24th.

The movie made its film festival debut over a year ago at Sundance, has made the circuit throughout Europe and the U.K. and is now ready to settle in the mind of an American audience nearly two years after it was first introduced. Is this a good thing? We’ll find out on Friday.

The dirty bombs throw Los Angeles into utter chaos and confusion with traffic jams even more severe than usual for L.A. freeways, planes at LAX are grounded to a halt causing angry crowds wanting to flee the city to practically riot and L.A. neighborhoods are in a panic as several dark mushroom like plumbs become visible across the city.

When the mysterious ash begins to fall people start getting sick and soon learn that this bomb’s passenger is not radiation but a deadly toxin that is infecting everyone who comes into contact with it.

The story moves from the greater populace and narrows its focus down to two people. Brad, played by Rory Cochrane (“A Scanner Darkly”) is locked safely in his hermetically sealed home and Lexi, portrayed by Mary McCormack (“1408”), who finds herself stuck out in the ash frantically beating on Brad’s door wanting in.

What does Brad do? Should he chance getting himself and his safe environment infected by being the good samaritan and letting Lexi in, or does he do whatever he deems necessary to survive, even if it means destroying the life of another human being?

Of course, the bigger question that Gorak may leave you asking yourself could be — Is any of this really happening?

One thing is for sure, when you finish watching this film and walk out of the theater into your clean fresh air, you may never see your hometown as the safe haven it use to be.