Knock Knock

Plot synopsis:
Architect and happily married man Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) has the house to himself and his dog Monkey on Father's Day weekend (due to work and a physical therapy appointment due to a shoulder injury) while his wife and children go on a family-planned beach trip. His wife Karen (Ignacia Allamand), a successful artist, leaves their assistant Louis (Aaron Burns) in charge of her sculpture that needs to be moved to an art gallery. Alone in his beautiful and expensive home, Evan works on renderings for an ongoing house project.That evening, young two women, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bel (Ana de Armas), arrive and knock on his front door. He opens the door and they say that they are looking for the address of a party, but since their phone died, the taxi driver dropped them off. As they have no means of communication, Evan allows them in to use the Internet and get hold of the party's host. Once they find the right address, Evan offers to call an Uber driver for them, but the closest driver will take 45 minutes to arrive. Meanwhile, the girls make themselves at home and Evan plays a few of his old vinyl records he has from when he was a disc jockey. The conversation quickly turns into their opinions about human polygamy and they tell Evan about their jobs as flight attendants as well as how they engage in sexual activity with a new man in every city they fly to. They then disappear to the bathroom and when their driver finally arrives, a circumspect Evan finds them in the bathroom, naked and lusting for him. Outraged, Evan tries to convince them to leave, but as they start forcing themselves upon him, he gives in and has a threesome with them.The following day, Evan finds them eating breakfast and watching Family Feud, not worried at all about leaving. He loses his patience and offers to drive them home, since they have not taken the cab. Evan returns indoors only to find out that his wife's sculpture, which Louis was supposed to collect for the art gallery, has been vandalized. When Evan threatens to call the police, the girls reveal they are underage, showing they have control over him or risk charges on sexual conduct with a minor.Vivian (Colleen Camp), a friend of Karen's, stops by to see if Evan needs help. Seeing Genesis, Vivian angrily leaves, thinking that Evan is cheating on Karen. A shocked Evan tries to make sense of the situation, since he realized that everything the girls had said was a lie in order to get him in bed. When Evan threatens to report a break-in, they give in and agree to be taken home. He drops them off at an upscale neighborhood where they supposedly live.Evan returns home, cleans the mess, and tries to go back to his work. Just as he is getting closer to completing his project, he hears a shattering noise. He goes looking for the source of the noise as he is supposedly alone indoors. He finds a broken picture-frame of his family and Genesis knocks him out with one of his wife's sculptures.The two sinister women tie Evan up and go through his family's belongings. Bel climbs onto him trying to arouse him while role-playing as a school girl in his daughter's school uniform. Evan initially refuses, but the girls threaten to FaceTime his wife with him in a compromising position. Even though this disgusts him, Evan realizes that by moving on the bed he can loosen his binds, so he plays along. Bel semi-rapes him, and unbeknownst to him, Genesis records everything.A few minutes later, Evan finally releases himself where he jumps at Bel and knocks her off. He charges at Genesis, who stabs him in his wounded shoulder with a fork. She then pins him to the ground and both girls proceed to tie him up to a chair with electrical cord.Later on, Louis arrives to collect the sculpture Karen left him in charge of. The girls take Evan's phone and text Louis saying his niece and her friend are staying over. They hide Evan in a room. Louis enters using his keys. He panics upon finding the vandalized sculpture and immediately realizes these girls are lying about their relation to Evan. Louis then finds Evan tied up to a chair, but before he can help him he hears the girls smashing the vandalized sculpture. He runs to stop them, but then has an asthma attack, and realizes they took his inhaler. The girls play monkey-in-the-middle with his inhaler, and as he tries to get it back, he slips on a piece of the sculpture and knocks his head on the edge, killing him.Genesis and Bel turn Louis' dead body into a red sculpture and dig a makeshift grave in the backyard meant for Evan. They also reveal to him that they had been spying on him all along for several days now. He fails in his various attempts to make an emergency call and to escape from the house. They tie him up with a hose, then bury him in the hole, leaving only his head above ground. Genesis shows Evan the video she recorded earlier with his phone of him and Bel having sex. As a horrified Evan watches on, she uploads it to his Facebook profile. Ultimately, they spare Evan's life, going against the idea of killing him in the same fashion they had killed Louis.Revealing that it had all been a "game" and that they're used to tricking fathers into this type of situation, the two sinister women finally depart and take the dog Monkey with them, leaving a broken Evan to his fate in trying to dig himself out of the hole he is buried in while watching the uploaded video with comments coming in. Karen and the kids arrive home to see the entire house ruined. Evan's son says "Daddy had a party" as Karen and the kids remain speechless.

Tags: violence, comedy

Review:
But a film this ridiculously bad has, if nothing else, crossed whichever threshold is required to motivate me to reset my long forgotten IMDb login details and hopefully save some poor souls the 90 odd minutes of their lives, and (god forbid) their hard earned on a ticket.It's so hard to know where to begin, so, as a wiser person than me once suggested, I will begin at the beginning.
The direction of photography is bright and that's a plus, but if you are a careful viewer you will find a lot of goofs including numerous continuity errors which could ruin some of the fun.In the end you might want for the movie to last a couple of minutes more to see the outcome or even the true motives of what just happened...Overall: Not as bad as most of the other 261 reviews might want you to believe.
Whenever he shouted it reminded me of the best cry ever/worst cry ever video in YouTube.Overall this movie was a huge let down, very good idea for a film but a horrific execution.
In summary; I found a few things Keanu said in a serious monologue quite laugh out loud funny and the use of a popular pixies track at the end credits reminded me of a student movie using cool music to be cool.
The movie stuck in my mind enough for m to waste time writing this review, i wonder if that was Roth's intention for the audience or he actually took this movie seriously..
Overall this movie was a huge let down The acting was really over the top at times and so painful to watch.
Knock Knock makes Batman & Robin look like Oscar worthy movie.I don't know what Keanu Reeves was thinking when he agreed to star in this movie but after the incredible John Wick I thought he was getting his career back on track after a run of disastrous movies but I guess not.
I won't spoil the film for you but it's difficult to watch, I've never seen so many people walk out of movie before, honestly.This is 99 minutes of pure hell as a viewer.
The film is tripe, utterly unwatchable completely unredeemable in any sense.This film is a career killer and I suggest you stay the hell away from it.If you want to watch an adult movie in the cinema go see Mad Max: Fury Road.
When I watch the trailer I said like "oh there is Keanu and Eli Roth and two chicks omg there will be some blood, some terror and action, this gonna be a great popcorn film...
This time around he's gone for a more thought-provoking style, and whilst it's far from perfect, it contains a uniqueness that all his films have and which brings an added layer of quality to the story.Roth has an ability, possibly superior to any other current director in the horror genre, to build tremendous characters.
This is the first time I've ever decided to write a review about a movie but I really have to express how I wasted one hour and thirty nine minutes of my life.
Initially pleasant, after luring Evan into a night of soaring passion, they then refuse to leave and subject him to a relentless, psychopathic barrage of violence and humiliation.Playing like a variation on The Human Centipede set-up (and, by the end, astonishingly much more horrible than that film), despite not having much opening development between the main character and his loved ones, Knock Knock does manage to generate an interesting premise for the beginning.
It does not matter how much you enjoy to watch mystery movie: with Knock Knock, you are better off saving your time.
One thing I learned from watching this movie was how terrible Eli Roth was.
This movie caricatures and exaggerates just what two cute women can get away with, to delicious and frankly, genius effect.Eli Roth knew what he was doing (for instance) with the scenes where the girls grill the protagonist on what happens to alleged sexual predators.
It looks like the man is trying here, I'm not too sure if he pulls it off too well.Reeves plays Evan, an architect who has to stay at home for the long weekend and work, while his wife and two kids go to the beach house.
If you like your films dark with traces of subversive humor Knock Knock is for you.The movie could be sold as Fatal Attraction for the social media generation but it's really just a trashy chiller with a solid performance from Keanu Reeves at the centre of it.People seemed to be critical about Mr Reeves' acting skills, I don't understand why, he delivered in John Wick and he delivers in this.Some of the reviews for Knock Knock have been bad but personally I thought the film was great fun even though I expected it to be more violent than it is.My only criticism of the film is that I did wonder about the girls' motivations afterwards.
Also Keanu Reeves was not very convincing in the film.Hard Candy did a much better (and terrifying) job of exploring the shallowness of man(kind), so I would suggest that over Knock Knock.
Reeves acting was terrible, and the character was so pathetic that by the end I just kinda hoping they would off him and put me out of my misery for being one of those people that just has to find out what happens so he watches until the end regardless.
So when Karen and the two kids go away for the weekend to a cottage without their daddy/husband so that Evan can finish a big job at home that he has been working on, the family all are in a good place.Then there is that innocent knock on the door later in the evening where Evan is faced with two attractive nubile and very wet and hot looking young ladies who just want to get out of the pouring rain and use Evan's home phone so that they can get to the party that they have somehow got lost and instead landed on Evan's front doorstep.A warm smile and handshake introduction, leads the ladies into a few giggles and then before Evan knows it he is in the shower with the two ladies getting his stick licked and just like Samson who loses his strength when he gets his long hair cut so does Evan after the ladies whack him over the head, tie him up, and ironically cut his hair as well.This is a remake of the 1977 film Death Game that originally starred Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and their victim was Seymour Cassel.
I'm convinced they watched the 10 cheesiest thriller/suspense movies of all time and set out to beat them all for a lack of originality, believability and depth of character.Having said all of that, I am literally baffled as to why Keanu agreed to do this movie.In short I have three recommendations for this attempt at a movie.
But there are so many points in the movie where we are rooting for Evan, hoping he'll be able to escape and exact revenge on these girls, who it seems have done this multiple times before to other men in their sick thrill.....but the movie ends in a very empty, heart-breaking way, making it a total waste of an hour and a half.
Okay so I have never written a review for a film before, but this film was that bad I've made an IMDb account just to warn people of how rubbish it is.For a start, Keanu reeves acting is the most cringe worthy, painful thing I have ever seen.
It feels like a porn movie plot all the way just without porn scenes, I don't know what the Director thinks about this idiocy, did he watch this before releasing?
Don't know how Keanu Reeves accepted this movie and acted in it.
Don't know how Keanu Reeves accepted this movie and acted in it.
After watching 47 Ronin and Johnh Wick I had a respect for Keanu reeves.His fighting skills were good.But,now i hate him to the core.A hero like him should not have signed for a movie like this.This is the first time i have ever seen an action hero behave like a chicken.I hate him to the core.I wish i never watched this movie.There was It was the fault of those two bitches.They seduced him knowing that he has a family.The movie could have ended like killing the two girls at the end.
I got very angry after watching this movie.I wish i could kill those two bitches.I still cant believe that IMDb gave a rating of 5.8 for this stupid movie.It is a complete waste of time..
I mean we have been indulging Keanu Reeves with his pseudo-roles for years now, and we've allowed him to act the same way for all his different characters, and we watched him anyway.
I don't think there's ever been any kind of true social or political commentary to his work -- which the best gross-out horror films tend to have, including the film he attempts to shamelessly rip off here, Funny Games.No, Roth gets his kicks from getting his wife naked on camera, having Keanu Reeves -- who looks regretful in every scene, and not because he's in character -- bullied, bloodied, raped and tortured.
The dialogue is terrible, the cinematography is shoddy (it basically went straight to video, which is what you'd gather from the way it's shot), the story is stupid which would be OK if the film had something clever to say, but instead Roth presents this all in a transparent attempt to shock and outrage while being too lazy to have any commitment to the material, instead hiding behind the "irony" angle and playing it out as a borderline farce.Reeves, who gained so much goodwill with last year's John Wick, gives one of his worst performances here; Roth's wife, whose name I do not recall and don't care to, is a coarse screen presence; and Ana de Armas just seems like she's being exploited here.I only gave this a chance because of Reeves, but I should have known better when I saw Roth's name attached.
Bad acting: This film has a well known actor Keanu Reeves who is good in a lot of films but this film isn't one of them.
Worst Eli Roth & Keanu Reeves Movie ever.
Keanu Reeves & his dismal,irritating scream.After John Wick this was liking jumping into the lake of fire.Mr Roth..so much is expected from him..this was disappointing to say the least.Take my suggestion if you have nothing else to do..& you are a die hard fan of Reeves...watch it...
I am a "somewhat" fan of Keanu Reeves so I was willing to take a chance but, like all of his latest movies, his parts to play are questionable and I don't know whether to blame his acting or the writers for the crap he's been involved in.
Totally Waste of time...This is the most irritating movie I have ever seen in my life, got very irritated by watching two girls psychic madness, girls (actors) be careful in real life someone can do the same and can come to you if someone taken personally.
this movie makes your blood boiled while watching movie I thought its good movie, but it is a movie about girls madness Keanu Reeves please find some better scripts.Stupid movie....
Then he gets a visit from two girls, they need help and he is a nice guy so he helps them, they then completely abuse his giving nature and ultimately trap him and end up doing all kinds of horrible things to him and the house.What truly makes this movie horrific is the fact it seems rather real and it seems like it actually could happen.
Having seen the trailer, and having been a (former) fan of Keanu Reeves, I was looking forward to the film.As it started, I thought for a second that it was not the thriller that was advertised, but maybe a tongue-in-cheek goof film.I was wrong...very wrong.This ranks among the worst films I have ever wasted and hour and a half on.
Keanu Reeves is an excellent actor and he proved it again and again in every movie he does and this film he shows his incredible acting abilities .the other actors are not really famous but they did a pretty good job..
The plot NEVER develops, no twist or surprise ending, it's just two woman harassing Keanu Reeves the whole time with no explanation why, just for fun, I guess?Speaking of Keanu Reeves, his character felt pretty unnatural and very predictable consuming the fact that he always failed at every scenario in the film, I wanted to root for him but it became pretty tiresome after a while since everything he thought of got butchered down by the girls.
I actually liked the movie, but at the same time I really hated it.First off - Anyone that says Keanu Reeves can not act, is just being rude.
Maybe if Keanu Reeves character was actually a bad person, then yea this movie would work, BUT NO, he was a good person on the most part (sure he cheated, but he didn't go out of his way to cheat.
So, with that extremely subtle set up, Keanu is left home alone when his family goes on a trip without him (for some reason), and the movie actually starts.This has to be one of Roth's more gutless films, we've grown accustomed to his brutal gore and violence, but this one is surprisingly void of that.
Even when you think the girls are as young as they claim to be, you find yourself wondering how the hell they were able to subdue a full grown Keanu Reeves more than three f**king times in the movie.
It's actually interesting subject matter, and Roth does have something to say with this film, and I believe he accomplishes it elegantly with as little blood as possible.Knock Knock is not perfect - it goes on for a few minutes too long and sometimes Reeves reads lines as if he'd just shot up heroin, but it's intriguing and truly captivating once it gets going and becomes a psychological horror house in its finest moments.
Watched the movie 'knock knock' because of Keanu Reeves and am so disappointed with the story line and there is nothing thrilling about the movie.
Keanu had chances to kick back but instead gets hit by a fork by a teenage girl and gets tied up and that's so ridiculous and finally when you expect some twist you will find that both the girls will bury the so called matrix hero called Keanu Reeves in his own backyard unto his neck and there ends the movie all of sudden...such a waste of money and two hours of precious time..
The rental is only $1.50 and honestly the amount is so little I usually do not care if I rent a bad movie but, I really feel like I actually wasted my money on this film.
Literally there are no developments or advancements to the story or any twists, it really did disappoint me.Keanu Reeves' acting is so unnatural that it is actually laughable, like...
Knock Knock, a cheap copy of Funny Games, Fatal Attraction, and god knows what else,, is a sexual but not sexy thriller that tells the story of Bel and Genesis, two "Femme fatales" that wreck not just the home of a married Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) but also his life.
Watched the movie 'knock knock' because of Keanu Reeves and am so disappointed with the story and there is nothing thrilling about the movie.
What really irritated was Keanu Reeves was like a helpless moron who just couldn't do anything against two teenage girls who go to his home and take him for a ride throughout the movie.
What really irritated was Keanu Reeves was like a helpless moron who just couldn't do anything against two teenage girls who go to his home and take him for a ride throughout the movie.
As a fan of Keanu reeves i had a high expectation the whole time even when my friends wanted to leave at the last quarter of the movie i stayed and kept thinking: **************SPOILER ALERT( read it anyway since the movie is bad) ********************* -that Keanu will turn things to his side and expose them but the movie ended with villains escaping.
I'm a filmmaking student and although I love Keanu reeves and I think of the stuff Eli Roth has done isn't that bad, I highly recommend you not to see this movie, instead watch something worth your time.
1 Star for this, especially after listening to Eli Roth's interview because he made it seem like he thought the movie was good but you'd have to be delusional to think that.
Well guys, thanks for reading my first review, hopefully I get better from here, and don't see this movie if you want to have a good time.
Not done with him they later break in and tie him up, and then the real torture starts (more so for the viewer then Keanu.)There are times when the acting becomes rather woeful, the scene with the neighbour, is like something out of a budget horror movie, it was shambolic.
I just lost an hour and a half of my own life on this; don't make my mistake.Overview: The acting in this movie is bad, especially be Keanu Reeves.
I should've known better than to think Keanu Reeves could partially save an Eli Roth production.
Just another very bad Eli Roth movie....
I hope you get to see this other movie, or anything instead of Knock Knock, because as bad as it was it was a lot better than this Eli Roth piece of ...