Knock Knock (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Knock knock |
| Original title | Knock knock |
| Country of production |
United States , Chile |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eli Roth |
| script | Eli Roth, Nicolás López , Guillermo Amoedo |
| production |
Miguel Asensio , Colleen Camp , John T. Degraye , Cassian Elwes , Nicolás López, Eli Roth |
| music | Manuel Riveiro |
| camera | Antonio Quercia |
| cut | Diego Macho Gomez |
| occupation | |
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Knock Knock is a thriller of Eli Roth with Keanu Reeves in the lead role as a respected architect who is of two young women first seduced and then imprisoned. The film premiered on September 23, 2015 at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival . The theatrical release in Germany was on December 10, 2015. It is a remake of the 1977 film Tödliche Spiele by Peter S. Traynor with Seymour Cassel and Sondra Locke .
action
The wealthy architect and happily married Evan Webber has the house to himself on Father's Day weekend. His wife and children go on a trip. His wife Karen, a successful artist, leaves her assistant Louis in charge of her sculpture, which has to be taken to an art gallery.
Two young attractive women, Genesis and Bel, knock on the door during a heavy rain. Evan opens them and they say they are looking for the address of a party. Having no means of communication, Evan allows them to use the internet and find the host of the party. The girls retreat to the bathroom. When Evan wants to bring them fresh clothes, the two seduce him brutally. Evan, who initially wanted to remain loyal to his wife, gives in and socializes with them.
After Evan, Genesis, and Bel have sex, Evan discovers that his wife's sculptures have been destroyed by the girls. When Evan threatens to call the police, the girls claim they are underage. Karen's friend Vivian comes over to see if Evan needs any help. Seeing Genesis, Vivian furiously leaves the property. When Evan threatens to report a break-in again, they give in and agree to be taken home.
He then returns home, cleans up the mess and tries to get back to his work. Just as he is about to go back to work, he hears a loud noise. He finds a broken picture frame of his family and Genesis knocks him down with a sculpture of his wife. Bel climbs on top of him and tries to wake him up. They tie him to the bed and abuse him mentally. Bel rapes him and Genesis records everything with the smartphone. Evan breaks free. He attacks Genesis, but is disarmed by her and Bel, who tie him to a chair with a power cord. Louis arrives to collect the sculpture and discovers that Evan is tied to a chair, but before he can help him he hears the girls smashing the destroyed sculpture. He runs to stop her, but then has an asthma attack and realizes that they have taken his inhaler. When he tries to get it back, he slips on a piece of the sculpture, hits his head while falling and dies. They transform Louis' body into a red sculpture and dig a makeshift grave for Evan in the back yard. They tie him up with a hose, then bury him in the hole, leaving only his head off the ground. The two then reveal that all of the torture was just a "game" as they never intended to kill Evan. Everything they did is part of an evil hobby: they seduce married people, torture them and ruin the lives of men with children. Genesis shows Evan the video she previously recorded on his phone of Bel raping him. As Evan watches, she uploads it to his Facebook profile. The two reveal that they are not minors after all, leave Evans' house and take his dog with them. You leave Evan to his fate. Karen and the children come home to find the whole house ruined, leaving them speechless.
In an alternative ending you see Evan in front of a house. In the house, Bel and Genesis torture their next victim. Evan knocks on the door and the girls stop when they hear it, he knocks again and they ask: "Who's there?". Although the film ends like this, it is believed that Evan plans to punish Bel and Genesis for ruining his life and marriage.
criticism
The film received mostly negative reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , only 37% of the reviews are positive out of a total of 70 reviews and an average rating of 5.2 / 10. The film service judges that the "crudely constructed, affected and pseudo-morally charged thriller indulges in extensive orgies of destruction and humiliation without saying anything beyond shocking emotions".
Web links
- Knock Knock in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Knock Knock at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Knock Knock . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 094 K).
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed March 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Knock Knock (2015). Rotten Tomatoes, accessed April 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Jörg Gerle: Knock Knock. Filmdienst , 25/2015, accessed on March 2, 2016 (short review).