‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Review: Compact Terror Among Kidnapped Kids

from “This Is Us”) eventually goes looking for him, which doesn’t end well for him either. Six hours later, we’re back where we started — with the duo, bound and gagged, in a car trunk, from which only Kevin is removed. Nearly suffocating, Bobby manages to extricate himself and is about to flee when he hears his friend’s cry for help from the secluded house nearby.

The remaining 75 minutes or so are eventful, in action if not plot terms: Bobby breaks into the large, rather featureless abode and tries to escape with Kevin. This will not be easy, because at first he doesn’t know who or what they’re up against, misidentifies his principal foe and upon encountering the worse one, finds them to be a formidable nemesis. The film is almost two-thirds over before we see that villain clearly, with backstory and M.O. never more than vaguely hinted.

The child actors are very good, the pacing adept, Anton Sanko’s score judicious. The overall effect is a rock-solid if not quite imaginatively memorable exercise in entrapment peril à la “Don’t Breathe” or Shudder’s own recent add “Caveat.” No matter what Charbonier and Powell do next, you can bet it’s going to have more than a handful of characters or settings — and that they will be able to handle the increased scale just fine.

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