![]() Roth and his co-screenwriters tease out the flirtation more patiently than Traynor did. Roth), dripping wet from a dark and stormy night. AEnter Bel (Ana de Armas) and Genesis (Lorenza Izzo, aka Mrs. Reeves is Evan, an architect who, as he’s introduced, is about to have sex with his artist wife, Karen (Ignacia Allamand), when his children burst in to wish him a happy Father’s Day. Although no film in which two women play “monkey in the middle” with a man’s inhaler can quite be called mature, “Knock Knock” marks a step in that direction. (The available DVD, at least, is piss-poor.) It’s also nice to see the “Hostel” and “Cabin Fever” director ditching grossout tactics and working in a mode where the primary horror is psychological. Doch das holprige Drehbuch, hölzerne Dialoge und ein wirklich mieser Keanu Reeves ändern nichts daran, dass Knock Knock als trashiger Thriller einen Riesenspaß macht.Roth drops that film’s irritating theme song, stretches out the suspense of the setup, creates some smart plot possibilities using new technology, improves the ending, and in general adds elegance to what was a cheap-looking production. ![]() Ziemlich frech schnappt sich Eli Roth den Plot von Death Game und die Psychospielchen von Funny Games und Hard Candy, nutzt aber statt Subtilität stets den Holzhammer. Der Morgen ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht: Die zu völligen Psychopathinnen mutierten Girls wollen nicht gehen und nehmen Evan die Designer-Butze auseinander – und bei Sachschäden bleibt es nicht. Zum Arbeiten kommt er jedoch nicht, denn plötzlich stehen zwei vom Regen durchnässte Mädels in der Tür – und bevor das rettende Taxi kommt, landet man sich windend in Bad und Bett. Architekt Evan bleibt das Wochenende daheim, während sich die Familie am Strand sonnt. Nach der Menschenfresser-Hommage The Green Inferno wendet sich Roth in der Home-Invasion-Variante Knock Knock einem anderen bekannten Thema zu. You know, for a B-movie.Įli Roth mag Filmverweise – liegt wohl an der engen Freundschaft zu Zitatkönig Quentin Tarantino. The director took a concept usually reserved for crummy, pseudo rom-coms and applied it to a genuinely effective horror-thriller format that brings every man's worst nightmare, having to pay for infidelity, to life in gruesome fashion and the results are pretty fantastic. ![]() For once his stupid sense of humor isn't a hindrance, but instead actually a boon to the movie! Allowing you to revel in the absurdity with greater glee. Knock Knock is simply a whole lot of fun, and when you consider that all Eli Roth has ever wanted to do is make a bunch of dumb, amusing grindhouse throwbacks there's an argument to be made that this is the best work of his career. His reactions in these scenes are admittedly laughable at best. At least when his character isn't being subjected to physical pain that is. For a low budget movie of this caliber though, he does a fine job. The John Wick star has always caught a lot of flack for perhaps not being the most talented leading man in Hollywood, which is a bit harsh in my opinion. In fact, the only thing that was suspect to me about the whole thing was the acting. However, no one forced him to have sex with those girls in this case so he doesn't exactly have my sympathy here. I'm not saying the punishment really fit the crime, that he wasn't rather aggressively cajoled into the threesome, or that a woman isn't capable of molesting a man. Plus, the torture never feels especially vile as it's easy to see the whole situation the guy finds himself in is his own darn fault. Their methods of torment are disturbing, darkly comedic, and on a surprising note even genuinely erotic at times. While tamer in the blood and guts department than one would typically expect an Eli Roth film to be, watching these women ruin the protagonist's life is nonetheless a blast. So the way this is centered around the far less heinous crime of cheating allowed me to enjoy the ensuing carnage without my mood having been soured by the main plot device. I can stomach graphic depictions of gore and mutilation, but not sexual assault. This makes me wish these male punishment porn movies would break away from the ol' **** trope more often.
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