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GREETINGS, GOREHOUNDS!

This week The Horror Guru and Count Jackula review KNOCK AT THE CABIN!

KNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023) was written by M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock & Ashwin Rajan, and stars Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn & Rupert Grint.

KNOCK AT THE CABIN was based on The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay.

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Avatar of @EmiaRaine
@EmiaRaine
24.03.2025
Damn.
Maybe if they had kept it more ambiguous, this version of the story could've worked. Or at least have been less negative. I haven't seen this film (I didn't really have much interest to begin with), but doesn't the character that dies have a concussion? If they had kept it ambiguous on whether or not the end of days was real and this character wasn't in his right mind, this story could've been more of a commentary on blind religious faith - no evidence, no personal experiences of your own, just following what others tell you simply because of what they say. If you are commanded or threatened into joining anything, said anything is wrong. Flat out wrong.
I don't know, maybe that angle wouldn't have worked either. It is unfortunate when a movie has all the right ingredients but a bad overall outline.
Anyway, as a Satanic Ace I feel like it is my unearthly duty to proudly declare #FukGod, especially when he's being a vicious two-face down prick and tearing people apart.
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@MrMDrewery
24.03.2025
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@IndengiousGoth
08.03.2025
I'm glad I didn't waste my time on his shit film. M Night needs to stick to doing original stuff.
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@JamiJR
08.03.2025
I've never seen an M. Night Shamalamadingdong movie and I never will. I have read the book and there's a question in the book if one of the home invaders actually manipulated the whole situation because he might be the dude who beat the shit out of one of the men prior to the novel's events.
I personally hated the novel because I don't like ambiguous endings. Life is full of them. I want my fiction to have clear endings. (That's also why I ended up not caring for My Heart Is A Chainsaw even though I enjoyed the book up until the ending.)
#fuckgod
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@Felis_Catus_Nigrum
08.03.2025
I don't have a lot to say except #fukgod
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@spookyartist1166
03.03.2025
Even when I was watching the trailer I was like yikes 😬
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@JoyfulOrb
03.03.2025
I love this book so much, I LOVED this book, and I was so excited for the movie.... then I heard they changed the ending, and I'm PISSED! Way to miss the point, M.Night!
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@Burori1
03.03.2025
Can't wait for Knock At The Cabin: Brotherhood in 10-ish years, lol
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@Navigatortrue
28.02.2025
From what i hear from people whose seen it you're not alone, & a fair number are church goers.
Also for my cheerleader ghost story a prebellum house on stilts too much?
#FUKGOD
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@DinosaurSatan
28.02.2025
Every morning coffee is better with a little Blood Splattered vlog.

I tried thinking what today’s movie looks like if you realise your protagonist has no reason to want to sacrifice themselves and that you’d written God as a bastard. But then I remembered Glorious exists. And I fucking loved Glorious.

So that’s my takeaway, Glorious rules and #FukGod.
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@silverwol844
28.02.2025
I was super excited when the first teasers came out. I thought it was going to be a home invasion story with LGBT+ characters. I am beyond done with tragedy, if you want tragedy turn on the news. The Shyamalan twist is fuk you. As someone with religious trauma #fukgod
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@CajunCraft24
26.02.2025
I know you guys don’t relish trashing movies but I LOVE it when you do😆
Thank you for saving me time and many triggers
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@Falxifer95
26.02.2025
#FukGod
I'm really getting tired of Shyamalan's pattern of two decent movies followed by a string of disappointments, but now bringing back his "god being a dick is good, actually" from Signs feels like a good sing (pun intended and with every insult) to just drop his movies entirely, especially if this is the heavy handed symbolism he wants to peddle.
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@AspiringDevil
26.02.2025
As a Christian I hate these kinda stories.

First off it being a canonical Christian idea is dubious depending on your particular faith & is often antithetical.

Also I'm not surprised that in this particular era of film production that the gay thing flew over they're heads unfortunately. At least the book sounds good, I feel bad for its fans.
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@sophialambert2616
20.02.2025
#FukGod thanks for pointing out everything wrong with this movie.
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@sirjedisentinel
20.02.2025
Yeah.... this falls into "Outright Bad" on the Shyamalan scale...at least for me as well

Legitimately Good (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Split)
Polarizing/ Divisive-- you like it or hate it, there is no middle ground (Lady in the Water, The Village, Glass, Signs)
So Bad, It's Good (The Happening, Devil, The Visit)
Outright Bad (Knock at the Cabin, Old, The Last Airbender)
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@ladyscarfaceangel4616
20.02.2025
Man, this is some heavy shit!
#fuckgod
We all would've been burned alive if we had lived 500 years ago & thought this way. That's a terrifying thought! King James was extremely paranoid about demons & witches. He was also bisexual. Yeah, the man who oversaw the translation of the Bible was into men & was basically responsible for starting the witch hunts. He had a lot of innocent ppl killed in the most horrific ways possible. So I don't trust any book that he had anything do to with!
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@Citrakite
18.02.2025
I feel bad Batista was in this but no fuck this movie. #fukgod
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@arlem525
18.02.2025
Ugh. I watched it with my roommate. I am so glad that I didn't pay for it.

The book was better.
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@JadeCryptOfWonders
18.02.2025
Jackula will know what I'm talking about but you never see Chinese gods doing this, like Guan Yu somehow never pulls Shamalayan shit on his followers, it's always Jesus.
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@jtilton5
12.02.2025
This is why I like Thai horror movies better. When the #fukgod shows up and destroys people's lives, it's almost never about what the people did or didn't do, or who they are. #fukgod is just mad and everybody has gotta pay.
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@theskepticalskeptic
12.02.2025
#FUCK GOD
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@JiNsN16
12.02.2025
I saw the trailers for this movie and had immediate concerns/reservations about the premise and that it seemed to be happening to a gay couple and their kid. Like I have 0 problems with LGBTQ+ representation being in tv and movie etc, as long as it's done respectfully. No disrespect to the actors or anything like that, but glad to know that my instincts weren't wrong with this movie being very problematic #fukgod
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@alexanderleslie3671
05.02.2025
same actor who Played Ron From Harry Potter
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@sdarkly
05.02.2025
Love the book. Tremblay kind of has a thing where he loves ambiguous endings, but since he loves them he does them really well; and he never forgets to make sure there's an emotional resolution even if you don't quite end up knowing everything that went on.
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@alexandercurry1140
05.02.2025
Yeah this wasn’t that good pretty fucked up but Dave Batista was awesome🤘🤘🔥🔥
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@pythonkatie1985
01.02.2025
Well there went the possibility of me seeing this because #FukGod
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@dianes.3718
01.02.2025
You two number 1 don't understand God and 2 you did what you are always preaching others not to do and that is to lump all Cristians in one pile. We're not all haters of people of other lifestyles or faiths because true Christians love all our sisters and brothers equally because we understand we are no better or without as much sin as another. Jessus made the decision to follow the will of his Father and die so that all who believe may have eternal life. Now that is what having faith is about in the long run. I'm sorry the 2 or you had obviously traumatic experiences with the church, but God and the church are 2 separate things. I don't attend church any more but I have faith in God and have accepted Jesus as my lord and savior, I don't need the church to do that any more than I need to go to a priest to confess my sins. I've not seen his film and I'm not going to but I saw Signs and felt it was a misrepresentation of God. Belief in God doesn't promise you happiness in this life because this isn't our home, heaven with God is home and that is paradise.
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@aetherialtea8894
01.02.2025
I'm so glad I decided to take a look at this before seeing this movie. It would have pissed me off so much to give money to this and/or sit through it. #FUKGOD
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@mclineohio
27.01.2025
Maybe this is shamalan's way of perpetuating God and followers are flawed over his filmography? I dunno
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@mclineohio
27.01.2025
Who made this... Kevin Smith?
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@MaduroMan
27.01.2025
I don't see why film makers can't just take the fucking book and make a movie from that rather than re-writting an already well received book from a respected author.
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@Minneow
25.01.2025
Whewf... dodged a bullet. ^_^* A couple other reviewers I normally trust were like "Hey, it's actually competent!" But they didn't say much of anything about the gay couple other than say it. The giant void about the relevancy of that detail made me hesitant to take them up on their recommendation.

And yup. I'd have been pissed at the end. Sham-turdball does it again. I'm quite tired of the clinging to that Iron Age Fantasy Anthology indoctrinating children to lead their lives with self-gaslighting so the least of us can grab and hold power and don't have to do it themselves. #FukGod
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@savageBB
25.01.2025
Honestly, the movie's ending would have worked, if the main character is psychologically destroyed, like the ending of The Mist. Where the sacrifice came at the expense of his suffering and trauma that will never be comforted by the world that doesn't care.

#fuckgod #fuckjob
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@TheNeojanus1
25.01.2025
It's pretty entertaining when you guys hate a movie. Not gonna lie. I wish you had a DVD to flush in the toilet
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@thegothsooz
15.01.2025
i was trying to put my finger on why i didn't like this film and you guys hit the nail on the head #fukgod
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@shizanketsuga8696
15.01.2025
Going by your pre-spoiler section I'd want to watch that movie but hate to pay for the dubious pleasure. I guess I'll have to look for a solution for that conundrum.

Edit: Holy fuck! It's remarkable how Christians making movies about the apocalypse apparently can't help themselves and have to portray their god as a the most petty, cruel and abysmally stupid arsehole you'd ever have the displeasure to meet. I mean, at least that image is quite true to their source material, but how, after acknowledging that, they still think that worshipping that monster is somehow not worse than sucking Hitler's cock is beyond me. I'd be mortified if I believed that wanker existed.
Well, at least I could watch the rest of the video now without spoiling the movie. And you are correct that the end of the book seems much, much more adequate. And you should be antitheists, at least with regard to those Abrahamic religions. I know a couple of pagans who are cool dudes and don't seem to believe in any harmful stuff, but fuck Yahweh, Allah or whatever his followers want to call him! And fuck this movie!
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@koppsr
15.01.2025
M. Night. Shitmalan has an unfortunate tendency to ruin his movies with either his ego or his personal preferences.
Mostly both.
I'm sorry but I just don't like the guy. He had some good movies but also a bunch of flops, a fact he can't really accept.
Also he comes off as a douche in Interviews a lot of times.
Thx for the great, indepth review, love your content and you two together are always a treat to watch 😉👍👍
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@monsterinthecloset793
08.01.2025
#fukgod see I read the book before I watched the film so I had a perspective on the story going into it, but while I prefer the book to the film, I think the ambiguity of the ending of the book wouldn't have translated well into film. On paper, just in terms of what happens, I actually don't mind the ending of the film and in some ways prefer it, but I think what intrigued me the most about the book and the overall premise was that the choice was deeply unfair and terrible, but needs to be made nonetheless, and the "horsemen" aren't crazy or wrong just because they want them to be. What I didn't appreciate about the end of the film and I agree with you about is the way it made the sacrifice seem like a happy ending, when the whole thing is wrong and unfair to begin with. I think having them make the choice to sacrifice one of them to save the world is a good ending with messy implications but the movie tied it up in a nice bow. There's a line in the book where one of the characters says something to the effect of "what kind of god would do this?" and Leonard says "the one that we have", and that is what is so interesting to me. It's not saying that God is good, it's saying that God is God, and I don't think the film expressed that idea well enough, but that is what is at the heart of the story for me, no matter what ending you want to go with. Anyway, if you read my rant thank you lol
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@katherinewiykovics1602
08.01.2025
well, I have a new BOOK to read thanks to this. I want to read the version we should have had. #fukgod
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@stephaniej2235
08.01.2025
#fukgod loved it until the ending. Would have loved to see the ending from the book!
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@cherzo71
31.12.2024
totally spot on review and your views overall #fuckgod
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@wandabrzozowska2983
31.12.2024
I love the way you bash trashy films! #Fckgod!
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@biguy617
31.12.2024
Hated this movie. Aside from Dave Bautista good acting, this movie stinks.
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@matt11708
29.12.2024
With your review of this movie is how i was after i watch bodies bodies bodides fuck that a24 mess of a movie.
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@colinjenson138
29.12.2024
I felt the same as you guys about this
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@lfr8666
29.12.2024
So it was a straight couple in the book, but the moviemakers changed it to a queer couple to seem progressive, and changed the ending, without considering the unfortunate implications? WOW I'm glad I missed this, I would have pitched a fit in the theatre. What a waste of talent and good ideas on such a malignant, hateful message. #FUUUUUUKGOD and fuck off, Shyamalan. STOP ADAPTING GOOD STORIES.
And it's not like Defiant endings are unheard of. Cabin in the Woods said that a civilization built upon mass sacrifice should not continue, and that made bank, didn't it?

Re: how they changed the 4 horsemen -- Malice, Nurturing, Health, Guidance? WTF is that. There are so many sets of 4 concepts they could have used. Upside, at least they didn't label one of the gay couple as Pestilence, which was my first thought.
Thanks for the review, and the comparison of American Gods. Gaiman gives me hope for modern pop fiction.
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@cutelittlecatgirl.6202
28.12.2024
#FukGod, honestly I like Jack's idea where the couple refuses to kill their loved one and Angel comes down and says, "yeah that was the right choice." Or hell here is my own twist, one of them actually does sacrifice the person they love only for those four idiots who started this come back from the dead and everyone's confused and then Lucifer shows up and says, "wow I can't believe someone was stupid enough to believe this crap, I mean I just made this up on the Fly in attempt to take over the world."
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@emotionalglooms
28.12.2024
stop drinking jacko
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