Christopher White’s Portals, an anthology horror film from Bloody Disgusting, is set during a worldwide blackout the day scientists created “the world’s first man-made blackhole.” Cities are being evacuated. There’s chaos in the streets. As everything falls apart, portals start appearing everywhere.
The portal effects are one of the highlights of the film. They’re black rectangles, calling back to the Monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but they gleam, as if wrapped in cellophane. They shimmer, with lightning bolts flashing across them. The portals can influence the minds of anyone who gets too close. It’s never clear why some people can resist the mind control and others can’t, but the portals wield their power to either get people to come through, or to force others into the portal.
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Ryan C Bradley 