"KNOCK AT THE CABIN" (2023) #mnightshyamalan #apocalypse #horrorstories #moviereview

"As a cinema loving birthday present I decided to treat both myself and my horror film loving son to the fifteenth all time feature length directed film from the master of suspense, M Night Shyamalan. Oh the allure of that cavernous, darkened room and the biggest of cinema screens!

Popcorn?
Birthday cake?
A bag or two of illicit sweets sneaked into the auditorium under the cover of cinematic darkness?

And how about a twisted tale of the four horseman of the apocalypse, in the guise of a softly spoken, soothsaying teacher, a cook, an ex convict and a kindly empathetic nurse, knocking at a remote cabin door and spoiling the would be holiday makers lives and dreams whilst asking for the ultimate sacrifice in order to save the world from earth destroying tsunamis, earthquakes, a deadly virus or aeroplanes simply dropping from the sky?

Sure!

Sounds like my kind of birthday!

I’ve enjoyed a rollercoaster cinematic life with the films of the Indian born filmmaker. M Night Shyamalan will forever be to me that fresh faced kid who tricked and astounded the world of film in 1999 with The Sixth Sense before following this incredible film with a hat-trick of films (Unbreakable, Signs, The Village) that are deep personal favourites if largely critically unloved and underappreciated within the film community. From The Village in 2004 over a decade would pass in which I would completely tune out from the films of M Night Shyamalan, completely avoiding The Lady in the Water or The Last Airbender but with the aforementioned horror film loving son now of an appropriate age we saw Split (2016) and Glass (2019) from the confines of our local cinema and have recently completed a another hat-trick of fantastic and highly recommended films with Old in 2021.

So where does Knock at the Cabin feature on this cinematic rollercoaster I hear you whisper in soft soothing tones amid tales of the end of the world?"

The above is an opening extract from my spoiler free review of "Knock at the Cabin" penned and published to my Medium blog site on 20th February 2023 and which can be read in full via the handy link below:

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