“Knock at the Cabin” reviews

70% is a smash, you idiot.

R1 did you tell your parents you smashed your tests when you brought home a C minus?

Although it's often less than scary and parts of the story don't bear scrutiny, Knock at the Cabin is a thought-provoking chiller and upper-tier Shyamalan.

What’s the twist?

70% isn't even close to a smash.

Below 60% is "rotten," so that's only eleven points away. "Perfect," by contrast, is thirty points.

Up to 88 reviews, 72% fresh

Its going to stay in C- territory

I’ll see it this afternoon

I just read The Cabin at the End of the World, which must be what this is based on. It was an only slightly compelling and not very well told story.

You know, it's just occurring to me that the family at the center of this film is a gay couple. Is that good or bad?

Several of the reviews say the depiction of the gay couple is very patronizing. I may skip it.

R10 I kind of figured that based on the trailer, which is too bad. I mean of COURSE it's two thin, attractive white men with an adopted Chinese daughter. Shyamalan really populates his films with characters that are caricatures. See the abysmal Lady in the Water for plenty of evidence.

I see they started including more in the trailers. For a while it didn't show much, and those four weirdos who show up and are dressed just so ON PURPOSE and are standing JUST SO and looked like they were extras from this video:

Cis White Gay Male Couples are having a good week on Film and TV. This was a very good representation of a gay couple, in my opinion. There was no twist and I was really hoping there was going to be. Overall it was a good date night flick. It's not scary but it's entertaining.

Opening at the low end of expectations

*spoilers* I read both the book and the movie spoiler synopsises and Shyamalan made such a major change to the novel that it renders an entirely different meaning to the story that I’m completely turned off from seeing the movie. The book is sort of analogous to of all things, Angels in America and what Prior Walter does with his heavenly mandate, which is what makes that play so implicitly queer; Shyamalan who is both religious and kind of conservative, changes it so that the gay couple accepts the mandate.

Rupert Grint is looking OLD in that photo.

It’s opening below the projected low end, $14.5 million

I guess you can’t just open a film about a gay couple in wide release

R11 It's based on a novel (A cabin at the end of the world by Paul Tremblay) and in the novel they are two white men with an adopted chinese daughter so Shyamalan didn't changed anything in that front

If the male, cis, and white (oh, the triple horror!) gay couple had adopted a baby from Romania, it could be a little vampire!

The reviews here in Spain are pretty good

R18 I’d watch that.

Spoiler

You have been warned

The "twist" is that there is no typical Shyamalan twist. He subverts expectations by having events play out pretty much exactly as shown. Even the relative ambiguity about whether the actions are truly occurring due to the sacrifice, or lack thereof, is not really in place anymore.

I've enjoyed every Shamalamadinger film, even the bad ones. They're fun!

R 22 Then you must have loved the Happening, especially with Marky Mark playing a high school science teacher whose face can’t move it’s pumped so full of stuff. I still don’t know if I was supposed to be seeing as a comedy or not.

I’ve only read the book, but I’ll say Leave the World Behind has almost the exact same premise, family (not gay) at vacation house has people showing up saying something in the world is going wrong and want to be let in and then strange things happening. Definitely more creepy and terrifying and I think it was even short listed on literary awards. I think it’s being filmed as well. Skip the other book/movie and read this instead.

R1 must have worked on the movie. In no universe is a 70% RT score considered a "smash". It's basically saying this movie is okay.

Still, it's nice to see a mainstream movie starring gay characters, and played by gay actors to boot. But all the gays on Twitter were hyped for Meghan but I haven't seen much talk about this one.

When I hear “Smash” it’s in relation to “Pass,” I think they were just expressing it’s worth seeing as opposed to passing on it.

Unfortunately this and Bros will be used as excuses for mainstream Hollywood not making films with gay leads.

Gay male audiences don’t appear to respond to literal gayness onscreen as much as perceived camp (M3gan, Tár, The White Lotus).

R24 Leave the world behind has a similar theme but the development is very different.

It's curious that there's zero gay content when the writer is openly gay (but i think there's basically zero content in all his novels). To be honest i was very far from impressed with Leave the world behind no matter if it was an NBA nominee

R27 The family is gay for a clear plot reason (with two males is way more difficult to chose who is supposed to be the sacrificed one) but this is not a gay movie (and it was not a gay novel), just a film with gay main characters

This is a case where the trailer spilled too much of the plot. You basically know how the entire thing will play out up to the twist, and then, well, R21. So I left underwhelmed.

If this film had been directed by Greg Berlanti then both gay men would have died.

Actually that's not true.

They'd be changed from 2 cis gay men to a bulldagger and a chick with a dick.

This movie isn't explicit. No nudes.

I found it largely boring and tedious to get through. Oh and the ending was depressing.

Does someone die at the end?

The movie would've been vastly improved by having Dave Bautista's character spit roasted by the gay couple.

[quote] I mean of COURSE it's two thin, attractive white men with an adopted Chinese daughter.

You're so right to complain! They should have cast Sam Smith and Ice Cube instead--that would have put seats in seats!

[quote] Does someone die at the end?

Just Rupert Grint's adult acting career.

I disagree r37. Rupert Grint was very good. Don’t come for my Ron Weasley, bitch!

[quote]Does someone die at the end?

Don't ask.

I was really bothered by the ending of this film. Any "God" that would set up such a plan is clearly evil, so why would you be content for your daughter to live in a would governed by such an entity? I'm not even saying you have to change anything that happens on a narrative level; just acknowledge this. It's not that the ending's a happy one, but no one seems to question "Why" God would do this, which seems to me to be the most obvious, compelling question. He's not "letting" bad things happen to people; he's actively doing them. I kind of hope that M. Night Shymalan wasn't taking all this too seriously, because if this actually reflects his religious views, he has a really fucked up, transactional type of faith. It's like that MST3K "Merlin" episode: "Believe in the power of magic, or I'll kill you."

No cock or ass from the two hotties in lead?

Can someone tell us what happens at the end? Who dies?

Spoiler

The Brit shoots the yank

Is it VOD yet?

The twist is that there is no twist, but it does end differently from the novel.

R42 here you go:

I got choked up at the end but not as much as when I saw The Seventh Sign. That's a better make-a-sacrifice-or-the-end-will-occur movie.

It would have been more exciting to spice it up with a bit of cock & fartbox (NOT from Grint!)

R42, Here you go

So, "Knockin' Boots At The Cabin," R35?

I don't like Shyamalan changed the end because i really liked the end of the novel.

I don't know if there are a good relationship between the director and the writer because they changed the name of the film (to be honest the title of the novel makes more sense and even works in more than one way) and the barely mention the film is an adaptation based on the novel (and Tremblay is not a unknown writer)

[Quote] There was no twist and I was really hoping there was going to be.

Then what’s the point of an M Night Shy movie?

Which is which, r43?

R53 the Brit is Aldridge x

Just saw it last night and I enjoyed it. The ending was better than the book, which if I recall correctly just petered out with no explanation.

Of course, there is no explanation about why this was happening or who made the decision and the rules, but at least we knew that it was somehow tied to the gay couple and their daughter.

On the other hand the friend that I was with did not like it; she thought it was too slow and the ending was too sad.

I’d say a solid three stars.

What was the name of the movie/s were all the events are a hoax but the main characters has killed their loved ones to "save them"

The Mist (2007) kind-of ends with people dying unnecessarily but the threat isn't a hoax.

I caught it tonight and liked it. Nights movies are definitely bonkers shaggy-dog stories — sort of a horror version of the Cohen Brothers — and I enjoy the ride. Yes, despite the sneer upthread, even The Happening. (Although not as much.)

The one I didn’t care for was “Lady in the Water.”

Signs is one of my favorite movies.

I like movies in which gays are just characters and gayness isn’t one of the characters. I thought that was just well done here. And that little girl was terrific when they gave her a chance to be. For too much of the movie she’s just a doily.

Is it streaming on some platform somewhere yet?

No cock or arse anywhere from the men

[quote]Is it streaming on some platform somewhere yet?

At the moment, you can pay $20-25 to rent or buy it from iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Amazon, etc.

As a Universal film, it will likely be available to stream on Peacock sometime later this month.

I liked the movie, although I liked Old a lot more.

I agree with R24 - Leave the World Behind is a great, great novel. It will be interesting to see how that translates to the screen.