The head-scratching premise is that, one day in the near future, about a million “doors” suddenly appear all over the planet. They’re not your standard hinged panels, though. Bigger than a normal door and smaller than a monolith, each one resembles a big dark block of something like stone, but more malleable. People vanish into them. Sometimes they come back.
Three directors each take on a different chapter, loosely tied together by the ramblings of Martin Midnight, a radio host who’s clearly been waiting his whole life for this kind of paranormal oddity to arrive. Jeff Desom delivers “Lockdown,” set on the day the doors appear, and featuring a group of students trying to make sense of one that infiltrates their high school.Article content
Behind door number 2 is “Knockers,” in which a group of portal-nauts explore what’s inside one of the doors, finding a weird dream logic that threatens to unhinge them. If you thrilled to the weirdness that was Alex Garland’s 2018 filmThen there’s “Lamaj,” directed by Dugan O’Neal, in which a scientist has spent months trying to communicate with one of the doors.