{"id":2621,"date":"2023-02-08T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horrorfatale.com\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2023-02-07T22:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:40:05","slug":"knock-at-the-cabin-entertaining-enough-hf-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horrorfatale.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/knock-at-the-cabin-entertaining-enough-hf-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Knock at the Cabin\u2019- Entertaining Enough (HF Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director(s):<\/strong> M. Night Shyamalan
\nWriter(s):<\/strong> M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman (screenplay by), Paul Tremblay (based on the book “The Cabin at the End of the World” by)
\nStarring:<\/strong> Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn and Rupert Grint
\nRuntime:<\/strong> 1h 40m
\nRating:<\/strong> R
\nOur Rating:<\/strong> \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd<\/p>\n

My love\u2013hate relationship with M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s work goes all the way back to 1999, like most everyone else I was so impressed with \u2018The Sixth Sense\u2019, and I will not even pretend that I was one of those people who figured out the twist. I did not know Haley and Bruce\u2019s secret until the very end. Loved it. Then came \u2018Unbreakable\u2019, Signs, The Village <\/em>all of which although I liked these films, I was steadily becoming less impressed, entertained \u2013 yes, impressed no – there were things in each of these narratives that did not make sense or left plot left holes that irked me.<\/p>\n

Then came Lady in the Water<\/em>, a cinematically gorgeous film, but so unsatisfying as a story even though it was trying to be a novel visualized. It did not succeed, and Paul Giamatti could not save it. Now for the hate, The Happening, The Last Airbender, After Earth, Old<\/em>, just SIGH. But there were little spots of you know what M. Knight this ain\u2019t<\/em> bad, like The Visit, Spilt, Glass<\/em> and the first season of \u201cWayward Pines\u201d, and \u201cServant\u201d (for me I stopped watching in season two because like everything, the story got convoluted and too much work for me to keep up with).<\/p>\n

This brings me to the titled work Knock at the Cabin. <\/em>I saw the trailer and was intrigued and then I saw M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s name and I have to admit to being biased. But, I saw Dave Bautista, whom I am a fan, so I thought why not? Having bored y\u2019all with all that here it comes, my unasked for opinion on this film.<\/p>\n

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n