Knock At The Cabin

RATING *** - 2023 - Mystery/Horror - 2h 19m

Like several earlier horror-thrillers from the tireless M Night Shyamalan this new one has a child close to its centre: a little girl (first-timer Kristen Cui) who is staying with her two dads (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) in a cabin in the woods when they're confronted by a group of home invaders. Shyamalan has reportedly agonised over whether to reveal further major plot points in the trailer and we're not going to do so here - but the script is based on Paul Tremblay's 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World a title that may be enough of a hint. Opens February 3.
Cast: Dave Bautista Ben Aldridge Jonathan Groff

Release date: 3 February 2023

Official Trailer

Review

*** IMDB
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Without a doubt, the weirdest filmmaker wading in and out of the mainstream on his own flamboyantly odd terms is the one and only M Night Shyamalan. Remember 2021's Old? You know, the movie where everyone aged an entire life in a single day? That was Shyamalan. Once again, he is here to rough you up, get you in and freak you out with yet another audaciously bonkers premise.

There is this cabin in the woods. It is being rented for the week by a precocious little girl Wen (Kristen Cui) and her two doting dads Eric and Andrew (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge). Shortly after settling in, the trio's idyll is shattered by the arrival of four strangers. The mysterious quartet's leader Leonard (Dave Bautista) has an announcement to make. The world is about to end. Only Wen and her parents have the ability to stop the apocalypse.

However, to save the planet, one of them must make a single, terrifying choice. While Leonard and his gang are not as nasty as they sound, they cannot and will not take no for an answer. What follows - particularly when it comes to the proofs offered and pressures exerted by Leonard and company - is patently ridiculous, yet irresistibly compelling.

You won't believe a shred of what is going on, but you won't want to miss how this baffling affair is going to end.