A scene from ‘Knock at the Cabin’ | Photo credit: Universal Pictures
Knock! Knock!
Who is there?
Is happening
Who is happening?
Happening in the cabin at the end of the world.
Yes, I know it’s silly but there’s something about M. Night Shyamalan’s latest feature that strikes me as odd. Paul G. based on tremblay cabin at the end of the world (2018), which won the Bram Stoker Award, knock on the cabin Opens in a sunny forest. A little girl, Wayne (Kristen Cui), is studying grasshoppers, putting them in a large glass jar, naming them, and writing down their characteristics in a notebook.
knock on the cabin
the director: M Night Shyamalan
mould: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn, Rupert Grint
runtime: 100 minutes
Story: A couple and their daughter are shocked out of their rural life by a knock and four dangerous strangers
She meets and talks to Leonard (Dave Bautista), even though he initially says he doesn’t talk to strangers. Wayne is suspicious when Leonard tells him that he and his teammates have to do something they don’t want to do.
Upon seeing Leonard and his three companions: Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), Adrian (Abby Quinn) and Redmond (Rupert Grint) with their scantily clad, improvised weapons, Wayne returns to his parents, Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Rupert Grint). Ben) runs to warn her. Eldridge).
After huffing and puffing and finally blowing up part of the house, Leonard explains that the end of the world is near and that Eric, Andrew and Wayne are the only ones who can stop it by willingly sacrificing themselves. Leonard uses news reports of tsunamis, earthquakes, planes falling out of the sky and a mysterious virus to prove his point.
Shot with a 1990s lens for an old-school thriller look, knock on the cabin Beautifully framed, with tight close-ups and elegant contours – that reflection of the setting (or was it rising?) sun and feet running away from the sofa immediately come to mind. Despite the magnitude of the choice to be made and the general similarity of the cast, knock on the cabin, does not catch his eye and keeps. There are holes in the logic and a vaguely annoying sermon that digresses into “knock, knock” jokes.
second film after Old In Shyamalan’s two-picture deal with Universal Pictures, knock on the cabin It is also the second of Shyamalan’s 2008 films to receive an ‘R’ rating. popular was the first The vanilla-ization of Tremblay’s novel to a traditional Hollywood ending may have diluted the overall effect, but knock on the cabin is one you don’t need to answer. And if you do decide to open the door, just be prepared for light-hearted fun.
Knock at the Cabin is currently playing in theaters