Don't Knock Twice
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
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- Cast:
- Katee Sackhoff , Lucy Boynton , Javier Botet , Nick Moran , Pooneh Hajimohammadi , Jordan Bolger , Ania Marson
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Redundant and unnecessary.
I wanted to but couldn't!
Highly Overrated But Still Good
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
A few creepy scenes, good twist. A bit blueprinted but a pretty good movie.
What a load of rubbish.The horror genre is riddled with bad movies, and is an arena most fresh film directors like to enter, as it is fairly straightforward and doesn't require the same skills a serious drama does. The problem is: to make a really good horror, you do need a lot of skills. Whoever made this had no idea what they were doing. The script is lazy and predictable, with one overused cliché after another. It's so tedious and frustrating. And then there's this ridiculous premise with an interracial couple... Guess what race the girl is? No surprise there.This film is absolute bottom.
Imagine a plane of existence where all ghost movies made in the past twenty years didn't exist. In such a place, Don't Knock Twice might be heralded as groundbreaking. In this world, however, it's just another ho-hum cookie cutter creep-fest, inspired by the likes of Ringu and The Grudge, featuring a malevolent supernatural entity with long straggly hair. Put simply, we've seen it all before (and done much better).Katee Sackhoff plays troubled artist Jess, whose daughter Chloe (Lucy Boynton) has spent much of her life in care thanks to her mother's drug problems. Now, happily married and drug-free, Jess is at long last attempting to reconnect with her daughter, but finds doing so just a little difficult due to an angry ghost/demon that is hellbent on killing Chloe because she had the temerity to knock on the door of a haunted house.To start with, director Caradog W. James is content to churn out the expected brooding atmospherics and mechanical scares, but when the script delves into the whys and wherefores of the unwanted supernatural occurrences, which revolve around the unsolved disappearance of a young boy, matters become extremely convoluted, culminating in a daft twist ending (clue: never trust an Eastern European).
It is not a B movie, it is really well made, with really good actors. But the it seem to me like a 2 hours movie in which they had to cut half an hour of scenes. The result is a nice story line with holes in it.The actors are really good, the soundtrack is also good, the camera shooting is also good with the CGI. The problem is you get in the vehicle and start rolling and suddenly you roll on a bump. You ask yourself « woooh, what the hell happen here, why are they so disconnect? Somebody is missing and nobody cares? » Or « Why are they answering the door as if there was an imminent danger? Nobody does that! » You know, things like that It seem that with half an hour more, the filmmaker could have sewed properly the pieces together.