Right at Your Door
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 Written and directed by Chris Gorak, comes this high intensity thriller starring Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack. When dirty bombs explode in central Los Angeles, sending a wave of toxic gases across the city, Brad (Cochrane), has to accept that his wife Lexi (McCormack) may have been caught near ground zero as the bombs went off during the morning commute; all the while fighting to survive.
The film wastes no time to get started, within minutes of introducing the married couple, Brad and Lexi, who we will follow through the film, Lexi leaves for work and shortly after, Los Angeles is rocked by a series of explosions. Brad initially tries to ring her on her mobile phone however due to the volume of calls, he cannot get through. It soon becomes apparent that smoke spreading out from the centre of the city is toxic. Brad decides to go and find his wife and heads towards the explosions until the police stop him and insist that he go home and wait for instructions. It gets worse for Brad when he gets home as soon he realises that he needs to seal the house in order to keep the poisons out. It is now not just his life at stake, a neighbour’s gardener has taken shelter in his home. He seals the house, sealing his wife Lexi out in the process. The army are patrolling the streets and martial law has been declared. Brad is told that anyone contaminated should be quarantined outside and should not enter the house or they will all die. And then Lexi arrives home…what would you do in Brad’s place? Writer and director Chris Gorak has done wonders with this film, the filmmaker creates such a gripping, on-edge mood that this film will grab you, shake you, and refuse to let go right until the very end. Not recommended for anyone with heart problems! Never has opening your door been so terrifying… A series of ‘dirty bombs’ are detonated in Los Angeles, scattering poison dust over the city. Brad (Cochrane), an out-of-work musician, follows official instructions to seal his home, though this means shutting out his infected wife Lexi (McCormack). The couple wait for official help to come. While it deals with the modern issue of terrorist attacks on urban population centres, this suspenseful, upsetting picture is in the edgy, paranoid vein of such 1970s films as The Crazies in its belief that, after any given disaster, the worst enemies the average citizen has are the know-nothing government forces they might look to for help. Set in a pleasant, hillside Los Angeles neighbourhood, the film opens with a credible early-morning sketch of the not-untroubled relationship of Brad (Rory Cochrane) and Lexi (Mary McCormack), a slacker and a suit. Soon, however, as conveyed by a chatter of radio news and a few effective long views, the bombs go off — on freeways, at the airport, in Beverly Hills — in the middle of the commuter rush. Unlike the British TV film Dirty War, which went into the realistic details of what a dirty bomb is, how it would affect a city and who would be likely to deploy the device, this avoids the political side of things to the extent that even radio reporters are so focused on the crisis they don’t try to speculate who might have launched the attack. There’s a science-fiction element around the mystery virus spread by the toxin, with almost no information given to either protagonists or audience about its specific nature or effects. But that sense that we’re being kept in the dark feeds in to the uneasy and increasingly worrisome sense that things are not as they should be — beyond, that is, the obvious fact of the devastation of the city. Debut writer-director Chris Gorak cannily plays against expectations: we hear a few gunshots but there’s no descent into anarchy, and when a black man in a hoodie invades the garden, he turns out to be a work-friend trying to persuade Lexi to take herself to the hospital rather than the post-catastrophe rapist-looter of everything from Panic In Year Zero to Time Of The Wolf. In a tiny cast, the familiar-but-not-stellar Cochrane (A Scanner Darkly, the CSI franchise) and McCormack (best known for TV work like The West Wing and ER) are convincing and affecting in roles which cover a great deal of emotional ground. Amid the mind-warping, large-scale horror, there’s room for small, believable character bits like Lexi’s fending-off of unhelpful but panic-inducing phone calls from her well-out-of-the-danger-zone family. A necessary counter-argument to the wave of patriotic 9/11 movies, this homes in on the other side of disaster and rings horribly true in the wake of the Washington anthrax scare and post-Katrina New Orleans.  Mary McCormack ... Lexi Rory Cochrane ... Brad Tony Perez ... Alvaro Scotty Noyd Jr. ... Timmy Max Kasch ... Corporal Marshall Jon Huertas ... Rick Will McCormack ... Jason Emeka Nnadi ... Synthetic Soldier #2 Marisol Ramirez ... Synthetic Soldier #3 Hector Luis Bustamante ... Store Owner Alejandra Flores ... Terrified Woman on Street Christopher Rocha ... Hurried Man Soledad St. Hilaire ... Hardware Woman Nigel Gibbs ... Another Officer Jenny O'Hara ... Lexi's Mother IMDB Trailer Download Torrent 
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