Knock at the Cabin

Official Australian release date: 2/2/23. Viewed: 3/2/23.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Kristen Cui
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Rating: M

 

‘Knock at the Cabin’ is the new M. Night Shyamalan thriller. I’ll try not to give much away, but it’s sort of hard to describe anyway – it’s got some light horror, a lot of tension, plenty of mystery and onion-layers. There’s really only 7 characters – Eric (Groff) & Andrew (Aldridge) with their daughter, Wen (Cui) on holiday in a cabin in the woods, when 4 strangers show up – Leonard (Bautista), Sabrina (Amuka-Bird), Ardiane (Quinn) & Redmond (Grint). It’s definitely not what you might think – certainly no ‘Evil Dead’.

All the actors are good, but Wen is the best character, but unfortunately she doesn’t get to do too much. There’s some flashbacks to give background on Eric, Andrew & Wen, because it all kicks of pretty quickly, posing all sorts of questions early on. Another good cameo from the director, as is standard.

While always having some inkling of where it’s heading, and definitely not being a typical horror/thriller, yet it doesn’t have as many twists/turns/fun revelations as I was hoping for. It’s by no means a bad film – not as good as ‘The Sixth Sense’ or ‘Split’, but similar to, and slightly better than ‘Old’ and ‘The Village’.

Overall: The less you know, the better

Gav's Rating: 3 stars.