Knock Knock (2015) - Film Review

Review:

*Originally written October 9th, 2015*

"Fucking, bitches!"

Knock Knock is a film I've been wanting to watch for ages now, our cinema showed the trailer for it several times, but sadly it never came to us. So when it finally came to VOD in America recently, I took the first chance I could to download it.

For the film itself, it was a lot of fun. Two young women seduce a married man played by Keanu Reeves while his family are away. The night after, the girls refuse to leave and it turns out this was all just a sick game to torture married men who cheat on their wives. What I appreciated most about Knock Knock is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. While Eli Roth was responsible for the Hostel series, the arguably most brutal of the torture porn genre, he also directs this, but it is remarkable restrained with its torture. This isn't a complaint, I much preferred this to the Hostel films.

It's always a gamble with a Keanu Reeves film these days, the guy is really hit and miss, and his misses can be horrendous, but there is just something so watchable and endearing about him. He wasn't terrible here, but he channelled some Nicolas Cage in a scene towards the end, which was fantastic. He hams it up to 11, and it was glorious. The girls playing the two psychos were fun, they were clearly having a blast just hamming it up and going completely mental.

The girls motivations are extremely weak, they claim they're "not animals" towards the end, but they kinda do some stuff that really contradicts that, it might have been a bit of lazy racism and the writers completely forgot about the black character and what the girls do to him. 

The ending was utterly fantastic and hilarious. The whole film seems to build to this punchline that plays to Where is my Mind by Pixies (A song I adore). I don't wanna spoil it, but the final scene is funnier than anything I've seen from any full on comedy this year. (The alternate ending is pretty good too)


This film was destined to be annihilated by critics, but I think they were looking at it wrong, they were probably expecting a dark morality tale set during a home invasion thriller, but in fact what we get is a trashy black comedy/horror, if you see it for what it is, you're gonna have a good time with Knock Knock.

7/10 Dans

Knock Knock is out now on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK. It is also currently streaming on Netflix in the UK
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