Jeremy Sisto‘s latest project is Johannes Roberts‘ paranormal horror film The Other Side of the Door.

Jeremy Sisto On ‘Other Side Of The Door’

Sisto stars in The Other Side of the Door as a husband and father traveling through India with his young family, who decides that the country is a great place to build a life. All is going well until one of his kids dies in a tragic car accident. In the aftermath of the accident, Sisto’s character’s wife is struggling to cope with the terrible loss.

“In my wife’s grief, she is told of a place she could go, a temple, where she can go and talk to a deceased boy on the opposite side of a door. But, the caveat is you do not open the door,” Sisto told uInterview. “She opens the door and brings the boy back. He starts haunting the family. At first it’s a good thing for her; she gets to read books to her kid again.”

“But spirits are never the happiest souls when they’re caught between two worlds and he starts going dark,” Sisto added.

Although The Other Side of the Door is sure to be chock-full of frights, for Sisto, the scariest part of filming the movie was the larger concept at play.

“There is an element of someone coming back, someone that you love, and someone that you missed dearly, and when that person, when that spirit or whatever becomes an evil entity and it actually decides to try to destroy you and the family that they were in, I think there’s something really unique and frightening about that,” said Sisto.

The Other Side of the Door, which also stars Sarah Wayne Callies and Sofia Rosinsky, is currently in wide release.

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Q: Where is your character at the start of the film? -

It follows this couple when they decide to remain in India, where they are currently traveling and to build a life there, which they do. They have a couple of kids and then eventually tragedy hits and we lose one of our children in a car accident. And in my wife’s grief, she is told of a place she could go, a temple, where she can go and talk to a deceased boy on the opposite side of a door. But, the caveat is you do not open the door. She opens the door and brings the boy back. He starts haunting the family. At first it’s a good thing for her; she gets to read books to her kid again. But spirits are never the happiest souls when they’re caught between two worlds and he starts going dark.

Q: Which is the scariest scene for you? -

I mean, in general, I think that just the mythology of using this long history of spirituality and multiple religions within India I thought was a really, really smart idea and haunting and unique. There is an element of someone coming back, someone that you love, and someone that you missed dearly, and when that person, when that spirit or whatever becomes an evil entity and it actually decides to try to destroy you and the family that they were in, I think there’s something really unique and frightening about that concept.

Q: What were the challenges of filming in India? -

I think the challenges were also what made it so great to shoot there. Just how many people there are. The population is really large and it feels a little chaotic compared to America. There’s not as many straight lines in Mumbai, and so that tends to add a real beautiful quality on camera. But the biggest [challenge] for me was, it’s the first time I had to be away from my young children for any extended period of time, so that was a little hard.