''The Entrance'' is a 2006 independent Canadian

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...

Damon Vignale Damon Vignale is a Canadian writer, director, and producer working in film and television. He has directed the films ''Little Brother of War'' and ''The Entrance''. He released the web series ''The Vetala'' in 2009, drawn from the Baital Pachisi, ...

Plot

The movie opens on a man, Ryan James, fleeing for his life in a

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. With the assistance of a

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, Joe, Ryan is able to escape. He makes his way to a police station and speaks with

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Porhowski, to whom he explains the events that unfolded that night. Ryan claims that he and four other men were abducted, locked in a

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and told they must play a series of

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s, the winner of which would be allowed to live. Before any games begin, one man attempts escape and is killed before the others. The four remaining men comply and start their first game,

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. When one of the men loses, a

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shows a clip of the man molesting his

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. The three remaining men move on to the next game,

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. Ryan calls out the numbers and when both the men at the table win, Ryan's video plays. He is shown to be a

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whose product has resulted in many

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. At this time Ryan manages to escape to the

where he is chased by a

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. At this point

Porhowski, naturally, does not believe the story she is being told. Ryan asks the

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for a glass of water. When she returns she finds that the man has left, though he kidnaps her shortly afterward. At this time the final game is going on between the last two men,

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. As the game comes to an end, one of the men reveals he is

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and the other flees. At this time Ryan brings Porhowski to the very place he escaped from, claiming that was the Janitor's price for allowing Ryan to leave. The janitor escorts Porhowski to the basement where the final man's video is shown. He is the man who

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d Detective Porhowski years earlier. The janitor and

watch as Porhowski struggles with herself about killing the man, but ultimately does not, shortly thereafter she is knocked out. When she comes to, she is in a cab, driven by

, being brought to a large manor. Inside she finds her dead father and struggles with Ryan James, who is now possessed by the demon that held the janitor earlier, Balberith. The title credit cites the work of Father Sebastien Michaelis as inspiration for the film. He wrote a book that listed the Hierarchy of Devils as revealed to him by a possessed

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