“The Gates” (*1/2 out of four) was a dreary horror thriller about a serial killer (Richard Brake) who is sentenced to death in London in the 1890’s but in his final hours he puts a curse on the prison and all prison workers and inmates (Donal O’Shea, Sarah Noll, Peter Coonan, and others) there and (yawn) all Hell breaks loose. Overlong and overly dour thriller missing any key ingredients of fun and scares. It’s duds like this that make you think that the similarly themed “Shocker” and “Fallen” weren’t that bad by comparison.