Only a few weeks ago, the stars aligned for the release of director Eli Roth’s long delayed horror flick, The Green Inferno. The film was about what you’d expect from the deviously perturbed mind of Roth – but it, like Hostel, packed a serious punch in terms of toying with the psychological mindset of viewers.
This time around, Eli Roth is back behind the camera for the 1977 Death Game remake – simply titled, Knock Knock. In this horror-thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as Evan Webber – an architect that’s married to a surging artist, Karen (Ignacia Allamand), who takes the couple’s two children to the beach for the weekend.
In the meantime, two young women, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bel (Ana de Armas), show up at Evan’s front door – claiming they are lost and stranded. Evan invites them in due to the pouring hair, offering to call them a cab and tend to their wet clothes. But, a …show more content…
Regardless, Izzo and de Armas are acceptably creepy and slightly kooky – even despite the fact they’re (wholesome?) ambitious goals are unrealistic and unbelievable. To the casual observer, one appears to have daddy issues, while the other simply seems to require some anger management. Oh, the humanity…
As far as where this film fits-in on the belt of Eli Roth’s directing career, Knock Knock is far, far from memorable – even if it incorporates a few easter eggs from the original (like a cameo by Colleen Camp – who starred in Death Game). In actuality, this is about as tame as you’ll probably ever find his directing schemes. Roth does attempt to inject a few thrills via a few unorthodox and discomforting scenes – like the “Who Wants to Be a Pedophile?” game show sequence or an uninspiring game of Hide and Seek. But – none of them could be any more disdainful if they
This time around, Eli Roth is back behind the camera for the 1977 Death Game remake – simply titled, Knock Knock. In this horror-thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as Evan Webber – an architect that’s married to a surging artist, Karen (Ignacia Allamand), who takes the couple’s two children to the beach for the weekend.
In the meantime, two young women, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bel (Ana de Armas), show up at Evan’s front door – claiming they are lost and stranded. Evan invites them in due to the pouring hair, offering to call them a cab and tend to their wet clothes. But, a …show more content…
Regardless, Izzo and de Armas are acceptably creepy and slightly kooky – even despite the fact they’re (wholesome?) ambitious goals are unrealistic and unbelievable. To the casual observer, one appears to have daddy issues, while the other simply seems to require some anger management. Oh, the humanity…
As far as where this film fits-in on the belt of Eli Roth’s directing career, Knock Knock is far, far from memorable – even if it incorporates a few easter eggs from the original (like a cameo by Colleen Camp – who starred in Death Game). In actuality, this is about as tame as you’ll probably ever find his directing schemes. Roth does attempt to inject a few thrills via a few unorthodox and discomforting scenes – like the “Who Wants to Be a Pedophile?” game show sequence or an uninspiring game of Hide and Seek. But – none of them could be any more disdainful if they