While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.
- Awards
- 12 nominations
- Seismologist
- (as Bill Vargus)
M. Night Shyamalan Puts on His "Boogie Shoes"
M. Night Shyamalan Puts on His "Boogie Shoes"
Storyline
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- TriviaIn a 2023 interview with Screen Rant, M. Night Shyamalan explained how he came to cast Dave Bautista: "I thought, 'This is an impossible role. A GIANT who can emote and do 30 pages of monologues. This doesn't exist, this person doesn't exist!' And then I was like, 'Wait a minute, what about that guy in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)?' I don't know much about wrestling, so it wasn't like I had that in my head, and probably if I did I might've been blinded to the fact that this person was an amazing actor... They said his name was Dave Bautista and so I reached out, and then Dave reached out, and then we met. And when I spoke to him, I found a human being who was ready to start over again, take away all the success that he had and unlearn it and then start over... He just wanted to be proud of himself and I was like, 'I'm down, brother. Let's do it the right way from beginning to end' and he's like, 'I don't know if I can do this' and I go, 'But I do'."
- GoofsDuring one of the news reports, the Scottish reporter uses the term 'parking lot'. This term is not used in Scotland--they use the term 'car park'.
- Quotes
Leonard: The four of us are here to prevent the apocalypse. We - and when I say, "we", I mean everyone in this cabin, can stop it from happening, but only with your help. Ultimately, whether the world ends or not is completely up to you three.
Andrew: You are having a psychological break of some kind.
Leonard: Your family must choose to willingly sacrifice one of the three of you in order to prevent the apocalypse. After you make what I know is an impossible decision, you must then kill the one you choose. If you fail to choose, of if you fail to follow through with the sacrifice, the world will end. You three will live, but the rest of humanity, seven billion plus... will perish.
Eric: They're lunatics.
Leonard: And you will all live long enough to witness the horror of the end of everything. And you will be left to wander the devastated planet alone. Permanently and cosmically... alone.
Andrew: Leonard. We haven't done anything wrong.
Leonard: I agree with you. You haven't. You haven't done anything wrong to... to deserve this burden. You're just the family chosen to decide for us in this time.
- Crazy creditsAt the very end of the credits, you hear the knocking on the cabin door.
- SoundtracksDistance
Written by Emily King and Jeremy Most
Performed by Emily King
Courtesy of Making Music Records
M Night Shyalaman always manages to offer something a little bit different, sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't, Knock at The Cabin I'd place as one of the better ones, I enjoyed it.
I expected something along the same lines as Strangers, some sort of slasher movie, I wasn't expecting a horror thriller with biblical overtones.
I'll be honest, I didn't care a great deal for it when I first saw it at The Cinema, but second time round, I rather enjoyed it, possibly because.i knew what I was expecting.
It's a truly quirky film, pretty much as you'd expect, it's fairly well paced, has a degree of tension, it just manages to be so different.
I always like to think about how I'd feel in the position of a film's central character, and seeing if from Eric's point of view, you'd surely be thinking it was a set up, and that someone from the past had set up an elaborate hoax, the alternative is too terrible even to contemplate.
It's well acted all round, but I have to give credit to Dave Bautista, who puts in an absolutely terrific performance, he's captivating.
Those BBC news articles made me chuckle, most presenters now have regional accents across the channel, here they all had those wonderful accents from the 1950's, all terribly posh.
This film is definitely worth seeing, even if you were a bit undecided first time round.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Sep 19, 2023
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Llaman a la puerta
- Filming locations
- Tabernacle, New Jersey, USA(Farmland)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $35,397,980
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,127,170
- Feb 5, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $54,760,947
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1