Straight to DVD this one went, easy to watch, some good moments, some bad moments, in fact I don't really know what to think of it. The start, as with many movies, isn't really that bad at all but being a low budget you will have to do a lot of blah blah due money restrictions. Talking about the effects, well, there are no effects. Car crashes off screen. People being shot in the head, off screen. showing dead bodies, no blood and I can go on and on. In other reviews people are really tearing down the main actress, Laura Mennell. I admit, she isn't that good but here she plays in one of her first major rol. In 2010 she will be seen in the already acclaimed Hard Ride To Hell, a gory piece of exploitation. If they had money they could have made a great movie but it fails a bit, no scary parts, it's sad, but also in the editing there are some faults left in, for example, the shadow of the zooming camera on a wall, you can count on it that they mostly made one takers. Anyhow. One to watch before you get to business with the real stuff.

11:11 starts as a young girl named Sara (Ingrid Libera) witnesses the murder of her parents at the hands of two escaped convicts who she then manages to shoot herself. Jump forward several years later & Sara (Laura Mennell) is a university student, she arrives home to find her aunt Lydia (Jane Sowerby) in bed with the guy who tried to rape her. Obviously upset Sara feels betrayed, whoever that night Lydia drowns in a bathtub & not long after the guy is found burned alive in his crashed car. Is this merely a coincidence? Is Sara a killer? Does Sara's creepy friend Raden (Christie Will) have anything to do with it & why does Sara keep seeing the numbers 11 11?Known as Hell's Gate 11:11 in the US this Canadian production was co-written & directed by Michael Bafaro & for me 11:11 is a complete mess of a film that I suspect tried to be a supernatural psychological thriller but just comes across as a confusing mess that is actually very frustrating to watch. The script tries to juggle lots of ideas but gets it horribly wrong, there's some nonsense about the numbers 11:11 which are supposed to hold some supernatural significance, there's a few death's, some rubbish about ESP, there's some evil entity who disguises itself as a hot chick & most of all it's about not taking your medication which I don't think the makers of 11:11 did. At over 90 minutes 11:11 feels like it it goes on forever & is so disjointed & confusing it's hard to watch, while I just about kept up with it until the end in the hope that it would all becomes clear & the film would explain itself it never does or at least to any satisfactory degree. All the character's seem to talk in very vague terms about 'this' or 'that' or 'it' without ever going into specifics which doesn't help matters either. The ending is a mess where we learn Sara's good looking friend is some evil demon & then there's a shot of two young girls running down a road before the adult Sara then wakes up & we get a close up of Raden's eyes before the credits roll. So was it all a dream? What was with the flashback? Who really killed Lydia & that guy? What was the significance of the medication Sara stopped taking? Sara had great ESP levels but so what? What's all that rubbish about fate? What's with the random out of body experience at the end when that guy sees his own dead body? Also what's that bizarre ending in which Sara doesn't shoot Seth & walks away before magically going back in time & shooting him? What gate's are opening & how can 11:11 come? What is 11:11 for God's sake? Does anything make sense in 11:11? I just didn't get it, maybe I wasn't concentrating enough but I personally think you shouldn't need a PHD to work out what happens in a low budget supernatural horror film, should you?You know I can relate to Sara because I also have been regularly experiencing the numbers 11:11, spookily it happens twice a day usually just after 11:10 for a minute or so until 11:12 & it's freaking me out. What can it mean? Does anyone have any explanations? Nope, it's a total mystery just like this film. The usual haunted house supernatural horror scares are here with doors opening & closing on their own & loud noise suddenly happening during quiet bits as people walk around in the dark, you know that sort of thing I am talking about. Forget about any gore as there isn't any.Filmed in Vancouver in British Columbia in Canada this looks alright & has reasonable production values I suppose but nothing amazing. The acting isn't anything special, Laura Mennell looks like she wants to be a goth & Chrsitie Will is quite cute while I can't say I recognised anyone from the cast.11:11 is a film that tries to make you think & be original but it just ends up being an absolute mess that is becomes very frustrating to watch. No scares, no blood or gore & a confusing plot sinks 11:11 without trace.

i thought this was a really good movie.it's a sort of ghost story/end of the world prophecy combination.it has some similarities to both "The Ring" and "The Grudge".i didn't really care for those 2 movies.i just didn't feel they worked for me.this 1 however,worked really well for me.there are many very suspenseful and eerie moments.the hair on my neck stood up a lot in this movie.i thought the acting was pretty good. i also liked that fact that they kept you guessing about things until the end.i did,anyway,and i wasn't sure how it would end.i like unpredictability in these kinds of movies.the ending is sort of open ended,so you can come to your own conclusions.i think this is 1 of the better movies of this genre,that i have seen.i'm sure there are lot's of plot holes and inconsistencies,if you really look for them.but i just wanted to be entertained and hopefully creeped out for a couple hours,and i was.besides,i/m sure every movie has flaws of some kind.it just depends what your reasons for watching are.if you did enjoy "The Grudge" and "The Ring",you may enjoy this movie as much or maybe more.for me,"11:11:Hell's Gate is a 9/10

What can be said about such a pathetic movie ? Very bad acting ! The main actress seems to know only one facial expression : fear mixed with weakness. Like a poor beaten dog... The other actress (the one who plays the evil) looks like the female double of Ozzy Osbourne, with an awful red wig. The other actors are so pitiful that they don't even worth being described. There's absolutely no plot. The story begins with possibilities but goes nowhere : we don't know anything about the meaning of "11:11", nor who Rayden really is, excepted the simple "she's evil" or "she's a child of Apocalypse"... which is not an explanation. We don't know why the parents have been killed, what kind of danger is growing and why Sara was chosen. As the film goes on, we just watch pseudo-scary scenes, with a bad music. Moreover, the end doesn't tell anything : we just see two possibilities as if one of them was a bonus scene or the director's cut... There's no plot, so no possible interpretation. "11:11" is just full of clichés ! It is so obvious that i couldn't help laughing. For example : the deserted library or the bathroom scenes, ghost silhouettes walking with a blast of wind, ... there's even the fashionable "little scary girl" as in "Dark Water" or "The Ring". Of course, the main character is bullied at school and looks like a stereotyped Gothic girl (dark hair, red lips, skinny, black clothes). Is it an obligation to make her credible ? I don't think so. The psychology of Sara is so few developed and so typical that it doesn't make her credible, nor endearing.Terrible direction : as i said, nothing original, everything has already been seen a thousand times and is used here without any real purpose. There are some funny incoherences. For example, i don't know if "ghost science", "paranormal course" or whatever is taught in American universities... In Europe it is really not the case : teachers talking about negative energies or using "unmaterial" creatures sensors... ridiculous. Also : how can you watch a movie shot in the sixties with a Super-8 camera on a computer screen without spending hours of your time for a digitalization (in the movie they watch it immediately on the computer screen) AND how can you, on this old film, isolate a tiny detail then zoom in and see a perfectly identifiable face ? I wonder if the director has ever tried to digitize an old analogical film...Eventually, "11:11" just worths being watched if you like to laugh at silly movies, or maybe if you want to fall asleep on your couch... But it's an expensive way to fall asleep !