Review of Knock Knock (2015) by Sean W — 24 May 2016

Even after overlooking the spectacularly wooden performance of Keanu Reeves, the first twenty is genuinely quite suspenseful, as you've no idea where the plot is going to go. Unfortunately, it emerges, neither do the filmmakers. What follows is an inexplicably stupid parody of 2005's Hard Candy, rather than an a geuinenly scary gore-fest that Eli Roth is known for. Instead, we get an hour and a half of painful cackling, cringe-worthy dialogue, false moral dilemmas and a story so beyond laughable that I was genuinely rooting for the protagonist to die, simply so the film would finally end.

Eli Roth seems to be bored of torturing the characters in his films, and has instead turned his sadistic streak onto his audiences, for all the wrong reasons. And trust me, by the end of it, you'll be begging it to stop.