The Devil's Doorway (2018)

Anecdotes

The Devil's Doorway is a 2018 found footage horror film directed by Aislinn Clarke and co-written with Martin Brennan and Michael B. Jackson. The film had its world premiere at the 44th Seattle International Film Festival on 25 May 2018. IFC Midnight released the film in the United States on 13 July 2018.

Production

Clarke stated in an interview that she was wanted to publicise the horrors of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, saying: "I had my son when I was 17, which was the year after the last Magdalene Laundry closed. People think these places existed a very long time ago, but that was 1997; the last one had closed in 1996. I was 17 and unmarried, I could have been in one if the circumstances has been different".

In another interview, Clarke stated: "The Magdalene laundries are only one aspect of the terrible things that happened in Irish Catholic society. They were symptoms of the church/state apparatus, the combination of the two things created the mechanism.

Clarke, who lives in Northern Ireland and is active in the theater, recruited most of the actors from her own work in the theater. About the casting of Roddy in the lead role, Clarke said: "Lalor, who plays the lead Father Thomas, is the only one who didn't come through the process.

About the filming, Clarke stated: "The whole experience was different. I'd made shorts before and I've worked in theatre a lot, but making a feature is different. We had about 16 days to shoot, on a tiny budget, very little lead-in or development time – we just had to do it.

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