14 minutes. One drunk walk home. A stranger who shouldn't exist. Sleep tight.
Hammered and wandering the forgotten streets of Philadelphia, Ivy encounters a dark stranger and her life is forever transformed as mythology and reality collide.
Cinematography
Philadelphia's forgotten streets become genuinely mythic.
Acting
O'Donnell's drunken authenticity sells the impossible.
Direction
McManus packs a feature's worth of dread into 14 minutes.
Director
M. Sean McManus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a Theosophical concept — the 'dweller on the threshold' guards the entrance to higher spiritual planes, testing the worthy.
Philadelphia's actual forgotten industrial corridors serve as production design — no set dressing required for this Gothic American nightmare.
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