On-Air Film Review: Somebody Answers the ‘Knock at the Cabin’

Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 3, 2023 - 3:33pm

CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on February 2nd, 2023, reviewing “Knock at the Cabin,” the 15th feature film of the Master of Unsettling Emotions, M. Night Shyamalan. In theaters on February 3rd.

Rating: 5.0/5.0

A young girl named Wen (Kristen Cui) is catching grasshoppers outside a vacation cabin, which is owned by her two Dads, the gay couple Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge). Out of the blue and in the midst of the remote woods, Wen is approached by Leonard (Dave Bautista), a somewhat creepy and large man who inevitable asks if he can come in. When the girl runs inside, her dads and she hear a knock on the cabin door. Leonard has brought three companions, and all their lives are about to never be the same.

”Knock at the Cabin” is in theaters beginning February 3rd. Featuring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Rupert Grint and Kristen Cui. Screenplay adapted by M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Rated “R”