Knock at the Cabin Review: A Disappointing Post-Apocalyptic Tale with a Thrilling Beginning!
Knock at the Cabin Review: The American horror film “Knock at the Cabin” was written by M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman. The screenplay is based on Paul G. Tremblay’s book “The Cabin at the End of the World.” The movie is made by Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan, and Universal Pictures is in charge of getting it to theatres. Stars like Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn, and Rupert Grint are in the cast.
Jarin Blaschke and Lowell A. Meyer are in charge of the cinematography, and Noemi Katharina Preiswerk is in charge of the editing. Herds Stefánsdóttir is the person who wrote the music. The movie’s premiere was on January 30, 2023, at Rose Hall, and it will come out in the U.S. on February 3, 2023.
It is made by Universal Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment, and Wishmore Entertainment, and it runs for 100 minutes. The movie will be in English, and it will be a scary horror movie that will make people sit on the edge of their seats.
Knock at the Cabin Review
M. Night Shyamalan has done it again in a way that breaks your heart. As he has done so many times before, he gives us a great hook, a great high-concept first premise, and a great opening scene. Then what? Well, it doesn’t take long before the movie is shown to be (and this is the only technical term that will do) a pile of crap.
It is based on the 2018 horror best-seller The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. It is supposed to be a post-apocalyptic nightmare, but it turns out to be a silly shaggy dog story whose big reveal is strangely anti-climactic, not scary, and not impressive. It is both wildly exaggerated and completely unimportant, frustratingly lacking in originality or real thrills, with characters whose motivations are unclear even
And yet, like Shyamalan’s other ridiculous end-of-the-world movie, The Happening, from 2008, there’s a real thrill from the beginning: a great scene of dialogue between Dave Bautista and Kristen Cui, who plays an eight-year-old Chinese-American girl named Wen. This child is playing alone in a beautiful wooded area near a cabin. Behind the cabin, her two gay dads, Eric (Jonathan Groff), who is kind and sweet, and Andrew, who is more aggressive, are hanging out (Ben Aldridge). Wen suddenly sees a scary man-mountain coming towards her. It’s Leonard, played by Bautista, who befriends her and might be a gentle giant. But what is he trying to do?
Soon, Leonard’s three friends, Redmond (Rupert Grint), Ardiane (Abby Quinn), and Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), show up with strange-looking weapons. They patiently tell the little girl that they have information about the fate of the universe. The world is about to end, and the only way to stop it is for her family to make some hard choices. Wen, Eric, and Andrew will have to decide who will die willingly to stop the planet from going up in flames. They take the family hostage, which is scary, and their cult-like fanaticism has a hypnotic, almost convincing effect. However, could it be that one of these people seems strangely familiar to the two men?
Well, it might be. That’s just one of many things in this story that aren’t explained well enough or are left mysteriously unanswered. The logical and illogical explanations for what seems to be happening are put next to each other in a pretty predictable way, and the ending’s ambiguity is very silly. Shyamalan’s last movie, the great horror-thriller Old, showed that he can carry a good idea all the way through to the end. This time, though, I’m afraid not.
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Final Words
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Knock at the Cabin” is a shaggy dog story that is both wildly exaggerated and unimportant, lacking in originality or real thrills. Wen is an eight-year-old Chinese-American girl playing alone in a wooded area near a cabin with her two gay dads, Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge). Leonard (Dave Bautista) and his three friends, Redmond (Rupert Grint), Ardiane (Abby Quinn), and Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), show up with weapons and tell Wen that the world is about to end and the only way to stop it is for her family to make hard choices.
