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Knock Knock

  • 2015
  • R
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
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Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas, and Lorenza Izzo in Knock Knock (2015)
When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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A devoted husband and father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.A devoted husband and father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.A devoted husband and father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

  • Director
    • Eli Roth
  • Writers
    • Eli Roth
    • Nicolás López
    • Guillermo Amoedo
  • Stars
    • Keanu Reeves
    • Lorenza Izzo
    • Ana de Armas
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    112K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,293
    475
    • Director
      • Eli Roth
    • Writers
      • Eli Roth
      • Nicolás López
      • Guillermo Amoedo
    • Stars
      • Keanu Reeves
      • Lorenza Izzo
      • Ana de Armas
    • 1.1KUser reviews
    • 227Critic reviews
    • 53Metascore
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    Keanu Reeves
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    • Evan Webber
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    • Genesis
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    • Director
      • Eli Roth
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      • Eli Roth
      • Nicolás López
      • Guillermo Amoedo
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    4neilcarlin

    Curiosity kept me watching

    Despite the warnings from negative reviews and low IMDb rating i watched it anyway... I've always liked Eli Roth mainly for his near show stealing appearance as 'The Bear Jew' in Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and his movies, though never groundbreaking for me, offered playful b-movie fun. His efforts here seemed to diminish after the initial creation of suspense. Once we move to the second act the script loses any credibility and little is left for creation of further suspense. It's almost as if the idea was to get Keanu to behave somewhat like Nicholas Cage in OMG mode. That idea i couldn't shake and ironically it became what kept me entertained, imagining cage instead of reeves, which wasn't too hard as Keanu seemed to channel the spirit of the rage cage as if he were possessed by him. Don't let my mention of cage fool you, the acting in this movie is sub par, if Keanu isn't The Wicker Man he's the wooden man and the girls act like female villains in a made for TV batman movie. 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. All it did was remind me of it's already iconic use in one of my favorite movies. The movie was just bad enough to enjoy it's shitness or i'd have not sat through it. Avoid this if you get offended by crap movies but I'm almost recommending you to watch this for the points I mentioned for your own curiosity. 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.
    4thelishron

    Is Keanu Reeves poor or something

    Why on God's green earth what an actor, A class actor, like Keanu Reeves take this role?

    Does he have financial difficulty we don't know about?

    I could understand if this was one of his first roles and he was desperate. This was just so bad. The only thing worse than the movie was the ending.

    The only decent thing about the movie was Keanu Reeves. Just terrible.

    I wanted the two girls in the movie to die a slow and horrible death.
    4wellthatswhatithinkanyway

    A promising opening descends into a gratuitous, stupid mess

    STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

    Architect Evan (Keanu Reeves) lives in a nice, swanky house with his wife Karen (Ignacia Allamand) and their two young boys. One weekend, Karen takes the boys away with her, leaving Evan on his own. He gets a surprise one night when two young women, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bell (Ana de Armas) knock on his door, claiming to have broken down and in need of a shower and a taxi. 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. As soon as the girls arrive, knowing that things are going to take a sinister turn, it's intriguing to see just how this will play out and why. But after that, it just goes to pot and ends up leaving a really nasty taste in the mouth.

    With elements of Phone Booth and Hard Candy chucked in to the plot, this skirts around the issue of young girls looking older than they are, and suckering older guys into going with them, an issue that's been playing in the media lately. But rather than using this as a plot device for some deep thought, it just degenerates into a relentlessly gratuitous and nasty piece of work, like a long winded, less grounded version of the superior British flick Cherry Tree Lane. Izzo and de Amis are a pair of seriously deranged, psychotic devil women, who just serve to distract from Reeves, who is as wooden as ever.

    By the end, it's just started to become annoying and stupid, with only the theme from the end of Fight Club playing over the end credits to remind you of something better. You think of those two girls up the north of England who battered that woman to death in her house, and when you're expected to be entertained by something as dispiriting as this, it puts things in perspective. **
    6macoliveira

    No one would turn down free pizza

    Evan is a great guy, with a lovely family (a puppy included), a beautiful house and a job that he loves. His wife and kids go on a weekend vacation without him and in the first night alone two girls knock on his door, pretending to be lost. He offers to help them by calling an Uber and drying their clothes (it was raining outside). After a little bit of awkwardness, they start to chat and of course the conversation becomes more and more sexual and tension starts to build in and Evan becomes more and more uncomfortable with them. When the Uber arrives the girls decide to take a shower and when Evan desperately tries to take them out of the bathroom they seduce him. They have a threesome and in the next morning the girls are not so funny anymore: their personalities are erratic and even a bit dangerous. After arguing, he takes them home and go back to his house to clean up the mess. But at night they come back wanting revenge because he betrayed his family by sleeping with them (!). About the movie: the acting was horrible, specially from the actors pretending to be Keanu's family. The wife and kids awful...and even Keanu seemed a little off as a loving parent. The two girls (Lorenza and Ana) were not so bad, the problem is that they had no back story and no point for being doing all of they did. I took that they were abuse victims, specially Ana's character, after that scene where she "rapes" Keanu because she starts calling him daddy and asking why did he did all that to her. They were mentally unstable that's for sure. The greatest scene is the one Keanu gives his great speech, justifying why he couldn't have said no to them, by saying that what they had offered him was like free pizza and nobody refuses free pizza (sometimes we must). The movie is over the top, it's nonsense, sometimes it's funny, the audience don't get their revenge (happens often in life), an innocent man dies and the motivation of the girls, to punish married man that don't respect their families gets lost in all of this. It's not that bad if you don't expect anything good from it. It's free pizza...
    5cgvsluis

    A thriller that left me more annoyed than thrilled or terrified.

    This is a disturbing little Eli Roth thriller that in keeping with the times has two young girls thinking themselves completely justified in taking down a perceived wealthy male.

    The film revolves around family man and architect Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves). Evan's artist wife and two kids have gone to their beach house leaving Evan and their French bulldog named Monkey home alone in order for Evan to complete a work project. The first night it is a dark and stormy, but Evan is diligently hard at work.

    Then the doorbell rings and there are two scantily clad young girls who are lost and soaking wet. These two conniving con artists proceed to ask for help, but eventually manipulate and wear Evan down until they are both touching him sexually and then he has sex with them.

    The next morning the two refuse to leave and begin threatening him with video footage and claiming that he is now a pedophile.

    The rest of the film is all very ugly as they proceed to trash his house and his wife's artwork.

    The girls seem to justify their behavior because he didn't say no, but I would like to point out that he didn't seek anything out...they came to him and forced their way into his house. Also, let's say they justify hurting him, how do they justify hurting his wife and their kids because ultimately that is what they do...including taking Monkey! What did the wife and kids do to deserve to be punished?

    It's a beautiful backdrop for the thriller, but I was just so annoyed at the end I can't in good conscience recommend the film.

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    • Trivia
      Keanu Reeves said that it was very awkward making the sex scene in the film and seeing Lorenza Izzo naked in several scenes in it, since she was director Eli Roth's wife at the time.
    • Goofs
      In the film's closing credits, when the list of music used in it is shown, the song by KISS is listed as "Detroit City Rock." Actually, it is titled "Detroit Rock City."
    • Quotes

      Evan Webber: Death? Death? You're gonna kill me? You're gonna fucking kill me? Why? WHY? Because I fucked you? You fucked me! You fucked ME! You came to MY house! You came to ME! I got you a car, I brought you your clothes, you took a fuckin' BUBBLE BATH! You wanted it! You wanted it! You came on to me! What was I supposed to do? You sucked my cock, you both fucking sucked my cock! It was FREE PIZZA! Free fuckin' pizza! It just shows up at my fuckin' door! What am I supposed to do? "We're flight attendants. Come on, fuck us! No one will know. Come on, fuck us!" Oh, twosomes, threesomes. It doesn't matter! Starfish! Husbands! You don't give a fuck, you'll just fuck anything, you'll just fuck anything! Well, you lied to me, I tried to help you! I let you in, I was a good guy, I'm a good father! And you just fucking fucked me! What? Now, you're gonna kill me? You're gonna kill me? Why? Why? 'Cause you fucked me? What the fuck-FUCK-FUCK, this is fucking insane!

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      Winter Nights
      Composed by Jeronimo Hill

      Performed by Goyele

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    • Release date
      • October 9, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Chile
      • Israel
      • United States
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Lado oscuro del deseo
    • Filming locations
      • Chicureo, Region Metropolitana, Chile(House)
    • Production companies
      • Black Bear
      • Camp Grey
      • Dragonfly Entertainment
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    • Budget
      • $2,500,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $36,336
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $18,623
      • Oct 11, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,567,103
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 39m(99 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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