Knock at the Cabin (2023) Movie Review + SPOILERS

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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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The thumbnail you look like a doll. Cute.

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

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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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.

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.

Dont read the book or synopsis.

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.

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 .

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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Books are almost always better than the movies 🎬

The book is at the top of my all time favorite books

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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

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

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.

Even as someone who hasn't read the book, the movie did feel far too obvious for me.

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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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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.

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…

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.