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.
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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.
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. **
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.
Did you know
- TriviaKeanu 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.
- 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!
- ConnectionsEdited into Diminishing Returns: Keanuvember: John Wick (2021)
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- Also known as
- Lado oscuro del deseo
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,336
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,623
- Oct 11, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $5,567,103
- Runtime
- 1h 39m(99 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1