Knock at the Cabin (2023) Movie Review + SPOILERS

Knock at the Cabin (2023) Movie Review + SPOILERS

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is M Night Shyamalan more of a hit or a miss for you?

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@alexhite1857
17.05.2025
sometime after this week will we be getting an infinity pool review sometime soonish?
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@17samalex
17.05.2025
its brilliant
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@17samalex
17.05.2025
I like you but you babble on too much
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@alexanderchan2304
16.05.2025
I love what you’re wearing
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@davidking4838
16.05.2025
I wanted to say what a great job Abby Quinn did - she really got to me. I think the scene where she pleads is the most intense and saddest part of the story and she was terrific.
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@thequestion4818
16.05.2025
I feel like as a gay man this rubbed me the wrong way. So the men who parents left after a 45 minute visit, who got attacking at a bar just for talking to each other, the couple who had to lie just to volunteer to give an orphan a good home, those people got chosen to kill each other to learn to see the goodness in humanity?
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@carolinaaguilar6820
15.05.2025
M NIGHT TIER LIST!!!!???? Yessssss
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@carolinaaguilar6820
15.05.2025
Hey Sarah! Just wanted to thank you for guiding me to Paul Tremblay a books! I’ve always been a big Chiken towards scary movies but watching your videos helped start in the genre and the first scary book I read was head full of ghosts and I really pushed my own boundaries and I really loved it! I’ve know read cabin and pet semetary (which is the worst I’ve read) and just bought only the good Indians! So thank you for helping me enter the community (slowly but surely) and I want to recommend The Dangers of Smoking in Bed! It’s a short story collection and I’ve been liking it and finding it pretty disturbing so hope you can read it and share your thoughts! Love from Mexico🧡
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@rebeccaNdraws
15.05.2025
I haven't read the book and I liked the movie! Not my favorite by any means but it was a fun experience to have at the cinema.

(Spoilers) I think with the changes they made to the plot, I'm kinda glad they changed the ending so it was clear that the apocalypse had ended, because I was dreading that they would sacrifice someone and then it wouldn't even work. It sounds like in the book they didn't sacrifice someone on purpose and then decided to risk the apocalypse happening, and I think I prefer that ending overall. They could've kept that ending in the movie, but if they rsther wanted to sacrifice Eric I'm glad they changed the ending too. Just my own opinion from a person who got attached to the characters and didn't want them to turn on each other :')
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@SamTV7
14.05.2025
The thumbnail you look like a doll. Cute.
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@zharko
14.05.2025
loved everything about this movie but ESPECIALLY leonard
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@leonalee5868
14.05.2025
After watching Old I completely lost interest in Shyamalan’s half baked toothless attempts to make a disturbing and mind bending thriller. He watered that ending down as well, and removed all potential ambiguity that would have actually made it a more Shyamalanian film
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@dbgreene9020
12.05.2025
I loved the movie bc it really messed with me!! I liked the movie better. I didn't love the ending in the book at all.
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@bennett_moon
12.05.2025
i loved the book, and i loved the ambiguous ending. i also loved the movie, i felt like it was one interpretation that could’ve occurred based on the book ending, except of course without wens death. i’m someone who loves to know what’s going on, so the movie version gave me some closure i needed. BUT i also love the openness of the book ending. guess i loved it all 😂but i agree on the gore, i wanted so much more horror
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@gamer_dehymos
12.05.2025
First, I want to say a big thank you! I discovered Cabin when I stumbled upon one of your book videos about a year back. I'm glad I got to enjoy this story before I knew there would be a movie. Please keep those reading recommendations coming!

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who was disappointed with the omissions of the film. Wen being the biggest. My gut reaction was cowardice in adapting the story. Now knowing the "great ending" quote, I'm even more disappointed with choices made. Overall I enjoyed the film, and casting was spot on. The opening scene was shot for shot how I imagined that scene playing out. I only wish they played it less safe and stayed true to the tension and ambiguity of the novel.
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@zeynepgulsu1899
11.05.2025
filmin sonunda bu dört palavracının yalancı olduğu çıkması gerekiyordu.
bizden kurban isteyen bir tanrı tarafından yaratıldıysak varlığımızın hiçbir anlamı yok.
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@zeynepgulsu1899
11.05.2025
bu haliyle hikayenin sonu çok daha karanlık; insanları, insan kurban etmenin meşru olacağı durumlar olduğuna ikna etmenin amacı nedir?

the purpose is to spread anti-humanity. 🤮
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@zeynepgulsu1899
11.05.2025
kitabın yazarı haklı, bravo ona.
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@carolinemarie7495
10.05.2025
Thanks to you I started reading Paul. He’s now my favorite writer; so I was pumped for this movie. I left very disappointed from the ending. Especially after reading how M Night thought his ending was better.
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@arcaneteresa
10.05.2025
I enjoyed it but purposely held off on reading the book. I don’t think they could have killed Wen and hoped to gain favor with a wider audience, she was too darn cute.
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@MsOctoninja
10.05.2025
I saw this last night with having never read the book and not ever hearing of the story. I left feeling like it was OK but there was something missing. I didn’t feel like there was much depth, and I felt like the Apocalypse storyline was really spoonfed to the audience. It didn’t give us a chance to decipher it for ourselves. I I just left feeling like it had a lot of potential with the story, but it just felt like it wasn’t quite there and maybe now I need to read the book.
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@kaitlynmarie2640
09.05.2025
I liked it. I wish it had more gore. I like when movies aren’t vague at the end. One part that got me was he said the book was too dark to put on screen for audiences and my thought was why put it on screen though. Now, after this video, I’m going to read the book.
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@Bbummer
09.05.2025
Watched up until the spoilers. Currently reading the book, but I might have to stop and see the movie before I finish. Hah I don’t want to be disappointed. Thanks for the review!
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@besprenmoroon
09.05.2025
Dont read the book or synopsis.
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@juancarlosch1511
09.05.2025
I hit the like and it went from 999 to 1k! Cool 😎 feeling
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@eljefebridget
09.05.2025
You & I have the exact same opinion on this movie. Tremblay is my favorite author as well and I really don't feel like they should have changed what they did when it was going to be R rated anyway. I gave it a 3 and a half on Letterboxd because I did enjoy Dave Bautista's acting a lot and enjoyed the movie up until the last half.
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@bunchacrunchlucy-7753
09.05.2025
Wow this is super reminiscent of Stephen King's book Cujo vs the movie... The director didn't have the guts there to do it either! I was so annoyed by the ending of Cabin in the Woods. So interesting that you liked the ending. It was my first book by him and I enjoyed it otherwise. Since you speak so highly of Paul, I will give another one of his books a try! Awesome you got out and had some alone time!!
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@royalhorror
07.05.2025
I personally loved that the movie doesn’t contain much of g0re because that would affect the real meaning behind the movie , which for me , it was the human touch to the situation .
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@Bolts_Films
07.05.2025
personally M Night isn't even hit or miss, for my personal tastes they're all misses except for sixth sense, which is just OK for how people talk about it. I almost always have fun at points in his movies and try to support his work, He's just dropped the ball a lot in my personal opinion. Can't wait to see this new one tho! Hope it lands better than Old did for me...
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@blakemack2877
07.05.2025
I have to agree with you, that I preferred the book over the movie. While I enjoyed the movie and thought the cast did a great job, there was something unfulfilling after watching. The choices Paul Tremblay made in the book were much darker and heavier, but it is what makes the book so good and complex! I was disappointed when the movie steered away from the book, but I also should have known better with M.Night. It is almost like the twist in the movie was how it was different than the book, lol.
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@joelsnyder5866
07.05.2025
Congrats on the baby
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@sallyhenneri7071
07.05.2025
I love your videos so much!!!!
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@mayhit
07.05.2025
Yeah, it sounds like the ending to the book, while darker and more tragic in many respects, was also more thoughtful and reflective.

The worst thing that could happen to this family has already happened, and it happened for nothing. It would be so easy for them to be broken by that, and to become nihilistic and complacent. But instead they refuse to be complicit. They refuse to be the tools of whatever unknowable force it is that perpetrates this cruelty. They reject its terms.

They opt to wither with tenderness rather than live in subservience to an unconscionable force. I do think there is a tiny grain of hope in that, for all its tragedy.
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@williamlugo6426
06.05.2025
Books are almost always better than the movies 🎬
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@rainbowshitter24
06.05.2025
There’s an episode of the 2000s version of The Twilight Zone which is very very reminiscent of this, but featuring cave explorers who uncover an ancient Mayan tomb and similar events occur. Has to make a sacrifice to stop the end of the world…. but was it actually necessary? Etc the book Cabin At The End Of The World sounds very good multilayered, but unfortunately the movie version just felt completely ripped off that episode of the twilight zone.
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@lizh4715
06.05.2025
The book is at the top of my all time favorite books
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@skabcat242
04.05.2025
I had no idea this movie was rated R.
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@chelsey1087
04.05.2025
Spoiler:


I see where you’re coming from, but in my opinion I’m glad that Wen survived in the movie. If she did get killed like the book, I feel like watching her death on the big screen would have been really hard for me to watch since she is just a little kid. It is very sad to happen in the book, but that’s just a book. Seeing a little kids death on the big screen would be too depressing so I’m glad she lived in the movie
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@spencerluther6485
04.05.2025
I saw the movie, and I do feel every change was for the best. You can’t kill the kid like that, it would put off the vast majority of audiences too much.
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@troytracey44
25.04.2025
i did like the movie i dont like when they go pg13 it was repentiff i would of liked them to go all the way because i never did believe them but i liked it being rated R kill the kid definitely not it was nice to see a young kid in a movie liked this i also liked the idea of the off screen killing that shows the suspense
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@mayzo51184
25.04.2025
I haven't seen the movie but I did read the book when I heard this was going to be made into a movie and it was coming out this year. I read this during the end of last year and really liked the book. Without seeing any spoiler reviews (I don't mind if it's spoiled for me), I had a feeling that the person who dies would be changed. I can guess why they changed it because people don't like to see children dying but it did make the story more intense with that especially when we learn that the death wasn't counted as a sacrifice and it was really for nothing. I do want to see the movie though and I did really enjoy the book, I am also tired of everyone going to the safer places when making movies just for catering to the audience too. This book was so good and there was a lot of violence that could have made it with an r rated movie but they of course didn't do that and isn't that what horror is all about? Making us feel uncomfortable and scared? I think so. Great review!
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@EDDYLOPE1
25.04.2025
Honestly I didn’t read the book. Therefore the movie was really good. I enjoyed the take of the gay guys having to make that decision of why protect those who hate us. It was very powerful take and message. There was a hetero couple next to me that that made some “homo” comments and ended up crying at the end!
The back and forth seemed very honest like a logical point of view and a “believer” point of view.
It didn’t need a vague ending because we needed to know the sacrifice was valid and worth it.
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@kirkcole105
24.04.2025
I loved it and saw it twice. Awesome
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@AE-ee6mg
24.04.2025
Even as someone who hasn't read the book, the movie did feel far too obvious for me.

spoilers
Since there was never a point in the film where I didn't believe the intruders, the entire 'are they lying or telling the truth' really fell flat. You're right, there was nowhere near enough effort into making it ambiguous.
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@ginagina909
24.04.2025
I liked the movie, but it wasn’t his best. Haven’t read the book.
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@notamy5432
22.04.2025
Spoiler:



I think the point about the apocalypse being so straight forward is interesting because as someone who hasn’t read the book I came away from the movie wishing we could have seen more of the horseman’s struggle with what they were going and their belief in it. We see bits and pieces, like their almost relief when they think they see signs that it’s actually happening, because otherwise they would have just killed someone for nothing. Or when they refuse to go look at the Id because at that point they didn’t want to question it, the idea of being wrong is too horrifying. Especially when they were displayed as such normal people, (the I don’t have a homophobic bone in my body scene was especially funny because it just encapsulated that idea that these people were dropped into this completely unprepared just as the family was) I would have liked to see the movie explore that idea that maybe they indoctrinated each other and the idea of egging each others delusions along, and if it was real or not and the implications of that. It’s why I was kind of disappointed when the planes just started falling from the sky by the 100’s. There was no real way to justify that. The first two times could be easily questioned but then it just erased all that tension.
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@haydeneverette7422
22.04.2025
I SPRINTED to my phone to pause when you said you were gonna spoil the book. I was too late 😂 not watching from afar with my AirPods anymore.
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@chelsea2059
22.04.2025
Oh my gosh hearing you explain what happens in the book sounds so much more interesting!! The movie was so toned down and straightforward and honestly kinda boring…
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@jenniferthompson2293
19.04.2025
I saw it in theaters too ;;it was...interesting I just kept waiting for something to happen
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@archaicwolf972
19.04.2025
M. Knight is king, Knock at the Cabin was absolute shite. Long time Knight fan and I even enjoyed lady in the water but.... Knock was utter bollocks that should've gone straight to streaming and a waste of hard earned Cinema funds.

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