History Film / TheGate

* ShooAwayTheClowns: The sister's friends leave the story before the darker events of the finale.

* NobleDemon: It's implied with the Demon Lord, unlike the imps who torment the others via MindScrew and MindRape techniques ForTheEvulz, it spares Glen by giving him a mark to show he will be spared now that the sacrifices were made and leaves him alone until he actively tried to undo the damage.

* {{Jerkass}}: All of the sister's friends are this to the younger boys, either mocking them for their supposed statements of supernatural events or in the case of those who do get involved in the supernatural events [[DirtyCoward dont' even bother helping out the boys or their friend- hiding while they hide]]. The sister gets sick of their behavior and it's implied she'll no longer hang out with them after the events of the 2nd night.
* KnightOfCerebus: While the film was already very dark with its MindScrew elements and the demons tormenting the heroes in disturbing ways, there's an element of BlackComedy to them. This ceases the moment the Demon Lord appears, [[ShooTheClowns with the imps proceeding to disappear as well]]. Unlike them, its presence is played as straight as possible as an ominous and imposing figure- setting up the darkest part of the story.

%%* DemonicPossession: Happens to the protagonists best friend partway through the movie.
%%* DraggedOffToHell: The protagonist's sister and friend. He has to rescue them.

%%* JerkAss: All of the sister's friends are this to the younger boys.
%%* TheLegionsOfHell: Are mostly tiny devil things. At first...
%%* NotNowKiddo: Not too painfully played, but the older sister doesn't believe them at first.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Mostly small, hunchbacked gray imps with one huge, four armed sloth thing leading them. They also have more Lovecraftian themes surrounding them than Satanic ones.
%%* PrimordialChaos: The origin of the Old Gods.

%%* WhenThePlanetsAlign: A requirement for the gate to be opened.

* HonkingArrivingCar: A honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping. Alexandra's friends impatiently honk a second time while Glen continues arguing with her.

* HonkingArrivingCar: A honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping.

* HonkingArrivingCar: A honking car horn interrupts Alexandra and Glen while Alexandra is putting Glen's rockets in the trash. Alexandra explains she has to leave with her friends to go shopping, who are waiting in a convertable.

%%* HellGate: The centerpiece of the plot.

''The Gate'' is a 1987 Canadian horror movie directed by Tibor Takács and starring Stephen Dorff.

* DemonicPossession: Happens to the protagonists best friend partway through the movie.
* DraggedOffToHell: The protagonist's sister and friend. He has to rescue them.

* HellGate: The centerpiece of the plot.
* JerkAss: All of the sister's friends are this to the younger boys.
* TheLegionsOfHell: Are mostly tiny devil things. At first...
* NotNowKiddo: Not too painfully played, but the older sister doesn't believe them at first.

* PrimordialChaos: The origin of the Old Gods.

* WhenThePlanetsAlign: A requirement for the gate to be opened.

* DreamIntro: The film opens with the main character walking into an eerie empty house, then climbing a tree which gets struck by lightning and falls down... And then he wakes up to the sound of the trees being cleared in the next lot.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: The demons cause an eye to [[BodyHorror grown in the protagonist's hand]] at one point.

* JerkAss: All of the sisters friends are this to the younger boys.

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: The demons appear as the parents seconds after they first arrive. They break their diguise before they even speak, but all they ever say is "YOU'VE BEEN BAAAAAD!".

* BuildingOfAdventure: Every scene happens in or around the house.

* CallBack: Earlier in the movie, Terry tells Glenn that a workman died while building his house years before he and his family moved in and that he was still stuck in the walls. Glenn's father brushes it off a few scenes later as Terry making things up on account of [[FreudianExcuse struggling to deal with the recent death of his mother]]. Later, when a zombie busts through the wall of their house, Glenn whispers, "It's the workman" but Terry quickly informs him that he made it all up.

''The Gate'' is a 1987 Cabadian horror movie directed by Tibor Takács and starring Stephen Dorff.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: The kids throw the Bible at the titular Gate, the hole goes up in flames and closes up quickly. The demons have been vanquished, everyone's alive, including the JerkAss friends. Then you realize ''the movie still has 30 minutes left'' ... [[OhCrap yeah.]]

''The Gate'' is a 1980s horror movie where three children are left alone for the weekend. Through a set of contrived circumstances, they open a gate to hell in the backyard.

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'''''The Gate''''' is a 1980s horror movie where three children are left alone for the weekend. Through a set of contrived circumstances, they open a gate to hell in the backyard.

''TheGate'' is a 1980s horror movie where three children are left alone for the weekend. Through a set of contrived circumstances, they open a gate to hell in the backyard.

* BodyHorror: The demons cause an eye to grown in the protagonist's hand at one point.

* NotNowKiddo: Not too painfully played, but the older sister doesn't believe themat first.