Movie Notes: 'Knock Knock' (2015), Don't Answer to Strangers
Knock Knock? Don't answer...
Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) is left at home while her wife Karen (Ignacia Allamand) brings along their two kids for a planned beach trip due to an injury.
He changes the course of his picture perfect life over the weekend when two girls, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bel (Ana de Armas) knocked on his door. He is then seduced and finds himself entangled in a dangerous game of torture and sex.
Eli Roth's film is a psychological thriller about a father who in moment of lapse lay waste to two scheming and dangerous women. It was a bit surprising that there is not so much gore in Knock Knock compared to his previous films such as Hostel but despite that it was an effective psychological thriller.
It is a social commentary about social media (to an extent) and the sexual perversions. It presents how quickly things change - in this case his life - especially in the social media age.
Some scenes were a bit outlandish and campy but I feel they are negligible. What set this movie apart is that unlike other home invasion psychological thrillers in the past where the perpetrators are mostly dominant men, Knock Knock has these crazy and almost childish females.
Roth is a master at building tension from the calm to a raging storm which was consistent with his works. Despite the lack of gore - except for the some actual torture scenes (sexual in nature) - the psychological torture was enough to make you fear not Evan's safety but his life after.
Photo: Knock Knock
Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) is left at home while her wife Karen (Ignacia Allamand) brings along their two kids for a planned beach trip due to an injury.
He changes the course of his picture perfect life over the weekend when two girls, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bel (Ana de Armas) knocked on his door. He is then seduced and finds himself entangled in a dangerous game of torture and sex.
Eli Roth's film is a psychological thriller about a father who in moment of lapse lay waste to two scheming and dangerous women. It was a bit surprising that there is not so much gore in Knock Knock compared to his previous films such as Hostel but despite that it was an effective psychological thriller.
It is a social commentary about social media (to an extent) and the sexual perversions. It presents how quickly things change - in this case his life - especially in the social media age.
Some scenes were a bit outlandish and campy but I feel they are negligible. What set this movie apart is that unlike other home invasion psychological thrillers in the past where the perpetrators are mostly dominant men, Knock Knock has these crazy and almost childish females.
Roth is a master at building tension from the calm to a raging storm which was consistent with his works. Despite the lack of gore - except for the some actual torture scenes (sexual in nature) - the psychological torture was enough to make you fear not Evan's safety but his life after.
3/5 - Good Movie.
Photo: Knock Knock
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