KnockAtTheCabin — from M. Night Shyamalan and starring Dave Bautista and Jonathan Groff — reminds us why we enjoyed the writer/director in the first place. Our review:
At the beginning of Knock at the Cabin, we watch as seven-year-old Wen collects grasshoppers outside a cabin in the middle of the woods. She carefully sneaks up on the bugs as she collects them in her hands, and places them in her jar, while making sure none of the insects inside jump out. After twisting the lid of the jar on tight, she tells the grasshoppers that she isn’t going to hurt them, but she just wants to study them for a while.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY In a way, Shyamalan almost uses Knock at the Cabin as a way to explore themes he’s played with before with varying degrees of success, like faith and the ignorance of avoiding the truth about the destruction of the world when the evidence is there . Yet by restricting the story to this one cabin in the woods, it also plays to Shyamalan’s strengths, considering he’s often at his best when he puts his characters in claustrophobic and limited situations .
Shyamalan has always been a master of spatial horror, knowing just how to play with the limitations of a location to maximize the fear. Take, for example, the way Cole hid in his red tent before realizing he wasn’t alone inside with The Sixth Sense, or how eery he could make an alien walking by on a home recording feel in Signs.
But this is a concept that works because of how well Shyamalan’s cast sells this idea. Bautista is terrific as Leonard, a schoolteacher who realizes the horrendous impact he’s having on this family, but knows not doing this will only make things worse. Even though Leonard and his group are doing awful things, we manage to have sympathy for them, as their dedication to their faith in their visions makes us believe them.
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