Knock Knock

Knock Knock has something genuine to say, and it uses some really dark dramatic beats to get there.

Roth's tale is fairly twisty, as the behavior of the women grows increasingly violent and more outrageous. The two are not simply nut jobs; Roth presents them as a form of avenging angels who target philandering husbands. That's an interesting premise, but the movie lacks the depth or layers to make that truly compelling.

While its message is a little simplistic, Knock Knock is shot through with a brilliant, gleefully anarchic dark humor that's equally fun and disturbing.

There's satiric potential here, but Eli Roth's sense of humor abandons him when his hero isn't about to get down with the get down.

Men are pigs! Women are psychos! One-percenters have it coming! Pick your moral in this nasty, single-setting thriller that’s ultimately quite tame by the standards of torture-porn director Eli Roth (“The Green Inferno”).

The movie's uneven tone and ridiculous twists never quite gel, but Knock, Knock is so eager to please that it's hard not roll with the absurd depravity on display — which has been the essence of Roth's appeal from the outset.

Roth, who is no Michael Haneke (or even Adrian Lyne), seems unconcerned with creating genuine tension or digging into an allegory of moral consequence.

This makes me wish these male punishment porn movies would break away from the ol' **** trope more often. I can stomach graphic depictions of gore and mutilation, but not sexual assault. So the way this is centered around the far less heinous crime of cheating allowed me to enjoy the ensuing carnage without my mood having been soured by the main plot device. While tamer in the blood and guts department than one would typically expect an Eli Roth film to be, watching these women ruin the protagonist's life is nonetheless a blast. Their methods of torment are disturbing, darkly comedic, and on a surprising note even genuinely erotic at times. Plus, the torture never feels especially vile as it's easy to see the whole situation the guy finds himself in is his own darn fault. I'm not saying the punishment really fit the crime, that he wasn't rather aggressively cajoled into the threesome, or that a woman isn't capable of molesting a man. However, no one forced him to have sex with those girls in this case so he doesn't exactly have my sympathy here. In fact, the only thing that was suspect to me about the whole thing was the acting. Particularly that of Reeves himself. The John Wick star has always caught a lot of flack for perhaps not being the most talented leading man in Hollywood, which is a bit harsh in my opinion. For a low budget movie of this caliber though, he does a fine job. At least when his character isn't being subjected to physical pain that is. His reactions in these scenes are admittedly laughable at best. Knock Knock is simply a whole lot of fun, and when you consider that all Eli Roth has ever wanted to do is make a bunch of dumb, amusing grindhouse throwbacks there's an argument to be made that this is the best work of his career. For once his stupid sense of humor isn't a hindrance, but instead actually a boon to the movie! Allowing you to revel in the absurdity with greater glee. The director took a concept usually reserved for crummy, pseudo rom-coms and applied it to a genuinely effective horror-thriller format that brings every man's worst nightmare, having to pay for infidelity, to life in gruesome fashion and the results are pretty fantastic. You know, for a B-movie...

I just watch this movie and I'm really don't know what to say about this movie at some point this movie was interesting and sometimes weird like really weird I don't know actually what to say the crazy ending of this movie but overall I would say 6 or 5 out of 10 but more likely 6

Eli Roth mag Filmverweise – liegt wohl an der engen Freundschaft zu Zitatkönig Quentin Tarantino. Nach der Menschenfresser-Hommage The Green Inferno wendet sich Roth in der Home-Invasion-Variante Knock Knock einem anderen bekannten Thema zu. Architekt Evan bleibt das Wochenende daheim, während sich die Familie am Strand sonnt. Zum Arbeiten kommt er jedoch nicht, denn plötzlich stehen zwei vom Regen durchnässte Mädels in der Tür – und bevor das rettende Taxi kommt, landet man sich windend in Bad und Bett. Der Morgen ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht: Die zu völligen Psychopathinnen mutierten Girls wollen nicht gehen und nehmen Evan die Designer-Butze auseinander – und bei Sachschäden bleibt es nicht. Ziemlich frech schnappt sich Eli Roth den Plot von Death Game und die Psychospielchen von Funny Games und Hard Candy, nutzt aber statt Subtilität stets den Holzhammer. Doch das holprige Drehbuch, hölzerne Dialoge und ein wirklich mieser Keanu Reeves ändern nichts daran, dass Knock Knock als trashiger Thriller einen Riesenspaß macht.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Keanu Reeves... Por que? por que? Esta pelicula es increiblemente irrealista que me hizo llevarme las manos a la cabeza cada 10 minutos, por las tonterias que estaban pasando, no me la pude tomar en serio en ningun momento lo que hizo que las cosas buenas de esta pasaran desapercibidas.