![]() ![]() Thanksgiving releases in United States theaters on November 17, 2023. The way I think of it is that if you love Thanksgiving, you’re going to want your kids to be into horror films.” So we really wanted to do a modern take and create a new mythology and a new slasher film. You went to Plymouth Plantation/Plimoth Patuxet in Sturbridge Village and saw all these pilgrim recreation villages. “It seemed so obvious to us, so from the time we were 12 or 13 years old, we always wanted to do it, because Thanksgiving is obviously a huge deal in Massachusetts with the pilgrims. to create a horror film specifically set around Thanksgiving. In the meantime, let’s take a closer look and see if Knock Knock is just what you’re after in. ![]() In a recent interview with ComingSoon, Roth said he and Rendell were inspired by other holiday slashers - Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, My Bloody Valentine, etc. The movie may just be the perfect fall thriller, but you’ll have to watch and see for yourself. He and James Frey also recently created Fright Krewe, a DreamWorks Animation animated horror series now streaming on Hulu and Peacock. Little here is going to challenge the opinion of Roth as a bratty provocateur, but it’s still fun to experience a latter-day thriller pushing so many buttons in broadly the right order: if Knock Knock’s no more than a sick joke, it’s been very shrewdly constructed.Roth is known for directing 2002’s Cabin Fever, 2005’s Hostel, 2007’s Hostel: Part II, 2013’s The Green Inferno, 2015’s Knock Knock, and 2018’s T he House with a Clock in Its Walls. You may even consider it a blessing that the film can’t sustain the frowning moral conservatism of the AIDS-era Fatal Attraction instead, we witness the director cackling – loudly, maybe reassuringly – as the girls threaten to out Evan as a paedophile, and a punchline that sniggers at the way our nightmares have shifted over recent decades from the private to the public domain. Roth remains among our brighter shock merchants possibly we love to hate his films as we hate to love those of, say, Lars von Trier – because they draw us in as they do) ![]() Remake de Death Game (Las sdicas), dirigida por Peter S. Yet the infrastructure sustaining it – a clever deployment of tensions specific to the Uber app (a mainstream first), one eerily positioned overhead shot establishing the house’s isolation, the tantalising hints this could all be a bad dream – stands as uncommonly sound. El lado oscuro del deseo (Knock Knock) Dos chicas jvenes se presentan sin previo aviso en la casa de un hombre casado, dispuestas a seducirle y complicar su vida perfecta. (His final scenes recall his deathless Jonathan Harker, which is entertainment of a kind.)Īs a vision, Knock Knock remains pretty grim: the man’s an easily-led dupe who gets what he deserves, the women shape-shifting temptresses. Keanu, attempting more acting than the recent John Wick demanded, is less certain: he’s nicely courtly when shrugging off the girls’ initial advances, and it’s amusing seeing his inner Theodore Logan reawaken when the flirtation moves up (or down) a notch, but he gets hysterical during the morning-after parenting job. Izzo and de Armas, afforded greater screen time than Hostel’s harpies, actually prove the film’s most valuable players, shuffling through multiple wardrobe changes, each time re-entering as different kinds of little monsters. “I like building up the anticipation,” Reeves declares while unwrapping his presents, and his director may now feel similarly inclined: the gorehound of yore here reveals a new-found attention to script nuance and other varieties of kink.) The film’s a judicious tease: for much of the first half, we’re anticipating hot three-way action, yet for once, Roth appears less interested in the big bang than he is in the initial tremors, and their possible repercussions. After a sinuous opening tracking shot, we’re largely left in situ watching the girls playing Evan for a fool: cooing upon discovering his DJ past, marvelling at his muscle tone.
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