You may even consider it a blessing that the film can’t sustain the frowning moral conservatism of the AIDS-era Fatal Attraction instead, we witness the director cackling – loudly, maybe reassuringly – as the girls threaten to out Evan as a paedophile, and a punchline that sniggers at the way our nightmares have shifted over recent decades from the private to the public domain. Roth remains among our brighter shock merchants possibly we love to hate his films as we hate to love those of, say, Lars von Trier – because they draw us in as they do) Yet the infrastructure sustaining it – a clever deployment of tensions specific to the Uber app (a mainstream first), one eerily positioned overhead shot establishing the house’s isolation, the tantalising hints this could all be a bad dream – stands as uncommonly sound. (His final scenes recall his deathless Jonathan Harker, which is entertainment of a kind.)Īs a vision, Knock Knock remains pretty grim: the man’s an easily-led dupe who gets what he deserves, the women shape-shifting temptresses. Keanu, attempting more acting than the recent John Wick demanded, is less certain: he’s nicely courtly when shrugging off the girls’ initial advances, and it’s amusing seeing his inner Theodore Logan reawaken when the flirtation moves up (or down) a notch, but he gets hysterical during the morning-after parenting job. Izzo and de Armas, afforded greater screen time than Hostel’s harpies, actually prove the film’s most valuable players, shuffling through multiple wardrobe changes, each time re-entering as different kinds of little monsters. “I like building up the anticipation,” Reeves declares while unwrapping his presents, and his director may now feel similarly inclined: the gorehound of yore here reveals a new-found attention to script nuance and other varieties of kink.) A familymans (Keanu Reeves) kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse when he opens his door to two.
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The film’s a judicious tease: for much of the first half, we’re anticipating hot three-way action, yet for once, Roth appears less interested in the big bang than he is in the initial tremors, and their possible repercussions. Knock Knock (I) (2015) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Eli Roth Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Manuel Riveiro Cinematography by Antonio Quercia. After a sinuous opening tracking shot, we’re largely left in situ watching the girls playing Evan for a fool: cooing upon discovering his DJ past, marvelling at his muscle tone.