They Come Knocking

I would definitely give this episode a chance. Very impressed! I think rating it at 10 is maybe over the top, as I reserved 10s for the best of the best. But it doesn't deserve a 1. It's above average and well worth the watch. I've seen all the monthly episodes/movies on In the Dark and this has been my all time favorite.

The movie is centered around Father's Day and grief. A father takes his two daughters on a camping trip back to the spot him and his wife visited when he asked her to marry him. It's a desolate and barren area with nothing around for miles, but it's meaningful. The family is suffering from overwhelming grief after losing their mother to cancer. The teenage daughter is lashing out at everyone because she's hurting deep inside, while the younger daughter clings to her father scared of losing him now. The first night in their motor home very creepy black eyed children come. They want to be let in.. You might be wondering like I did, how this grieving family ties in with terrifying black eyed children, but it does and it works.

There was emotional depth to this movie that I hadn't seen much of with any of the other episodes. Its not a sappy drama either, in fact this is the ONLY episode in the series that made me jump on several occasions. As a regular horror movie buff I watch tons of horror movies every week so I'm pretty desensitized to them, so if a movie can make me jump even once then I'm thrilled!

Sit back, allow yourself to get absorbed and you'll find 1.5 hours well spent!

It does start off slow and has bits of poor writing like most of the "Into the Dark" series but this was definitely one of the better ones! Clayne Crawford is excellent as the father and the daughters were decent. The emotions were outstanding!

A first site this seemed like another rip off of The Strangers. In one aspect it is but it still captures creepiness and has some scary moments and it goes without saying it also has some moment where it follows the horror cliche.

If you like bad cliches, including unbelievable behavior from characters, then you might like this.

First off, the characters don't behave at all realistically - sure, it is a movie, but if you want immersion then you have to at least try to make it believable. I know that horror movies are probably the worst at this, but believe it or not, there are some really bad and scary things that happen in real life and they don't require you to be a moron. Leave the road while hiking through rough terrain, leave your vehicle unlocked in the middle of nowhere, run off in a random direction to search for someone - yep that and more - all dumb.

Then the story doesn't make much sense at all - wait to the very end, you'll probably sit there and go, "Wait, what - that's it? Well that was stupid."

Let's not forget that on top of dumb decisions, the characters simply don't elicit any sympathy - you'll want the youngest girl to die, you'll want the teen girl to die, you'll want the dad to die - just so that they stop aggravating you with the dumb dialog AND dumb decisions.

Lastly, for a horror movie it isn't even slightly scary or even spooky - that is the big letdown. I've seen horror movies that had less than half the budget of this (and that's saying something), yet they were heads and tails above this. I will say that the sound production was pretty good though...

Good acting and for the most part a good but frustrating story wasted with bad directing and continuity errors. Loosely based on Black Eyed Children legend. Some plot holes that anyone who doesn't understand camping and RVs would miss. Some nice atmospheric touches and visuals. Spooky at times with the requisite jumps.