Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

Someone Behind the Door

PG 1971 1h 37m Mystery & Thriller List
Tomatometer 4 Reviews 25% Popcornmeter 100+ Ratings
A brain doctor (Anthony Perkins) with an unfaithful wife (Jill Ireland) brings home an amnesiac (Charles Bronson) and gets him to commit murder.
Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

Where to Watch

Someone Behind the Door

Critics Reviews

View All (4) Critics Reviews
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Ungainly and unappealing. Rated: 1.5/4 Nov 30, 2019 Full Review Ed Travis Cinapse [Charles] Bronson truly surprises as a blank slate amnesiac known only as The Stranger, confused and malleable to the sick whims of [Anthony] Perkins' Dr. Laurence Jeffries. Nov 16, 2019 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 2, 2005 Full Review Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press Someone Behind the Door is a good idea in need of a script writer. Nov 20, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (14) audience reviews
delysid d don't be so hard on bronson, he was one of the greatest badasses in human history Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/19/20 Full Review Audience Member What a strange psychological thriller. It's weird to see Bronson play the role of the victimized/vulnerable. There's pretty great acting throughout, and it's got an interesting concept, with this doctor manipulating an amnesiac. Built ultimately it gets a little too convoluted, drags on and plays like a bad soap opera... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/09/20 Full Review Audience Member Fascinating mainly for pairing Charles Bronson and Anthony Perkins in a bizarre love triangle with Jill Ireland, contrived doesn't even begin to describe the tale fleshed out in Nicolas Gessner's 1971 attempt at a psychological thriller. Kind of a less entertaining version of the Deathtrap-variety plot twist model, Someone Behind the Door primarily succeeds in revealing just how odd Perkins and Bronson can come across on screen. Great cinematography and set design aside, the pair's awkwardly wooden performances almost sink the entire story, and the action is delivered so clumsily that most viewers won't even care why which characters are alive or dead in the end. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Nyt oli kyllä pappa ihan väärässä leffassa. Jotain ihme teatteri- / TV-tyylistä draamaa. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member The main problem of the movie is not the low budget (Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson are enough to make an interesting movie, to me), it's the screenplay, that in some parts seems to have no sense at all. It would look better as a theater piece, i think. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Dial Bronson for Murder...Perkins with his Psycho charm--Neat little mind twister!! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Someone Behind the Door

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Movie Info

Synopsis A brain doctor (Anthony Perkins) with an unfaithful wife (Jill Ireland) brings home an amnesiac (Charles Bronson) and gets him to commit murder.
Director
Nicolas Gessner
Screenwriter
Jacques Robert, Nicolas Gessner, Marc Behm
Rating
PG
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 12, 2016
Runtime
1h 37m
Most Popular at Home Now