The Devil's Doorway (2018)

Directors

Aislinn Clarke

Cast

Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, Lauren Coe, Dearbhail Lynch, Carleen Melaugh

The story

In October 1960, a Vatican bishop sent two priests to a Magdalene Asylum in Ireland in response to a letter claiming a statue of the Virgin Mary in the asylum chapel bled from the eyes. Of the two, Father Thomas Riley is the older and jaded miracle investigator who has seen too many frauds, while the younger Father John Thornton is enthusiastic about the assignment, and believes they will find a genuine miracle. Initially, the asylum's authoritarian Mother Superior tries to discredit the letter (sent anonymously from her hospice) by reminding the priests that "they are not all good girls in this home." She makes it clear the priests are…

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