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Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Knock at the Cabin poster
Directed by
M. Night Shyamalan
Genre
drama film, action film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film, post-apocalyptic film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 3,126 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family on vacation at a remote cabin is taken hostage by four strangers. The strangers demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert an apocalypse.

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What happens

Knock at the Cabin is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological horror film co-written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote the screenplay from an initial draft by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. It is based on the 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay, the first adaptation of one of his works. The film stars Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn, and Rupert Grint. In the film, a family is vacationing at a remote cabin when they are suddenly held hostage by four strangers who ask them to do something unimaginable. Knock at the Cabin premiered in New York City at the Rose Hall on January 30, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States on February 3, 2023, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $54 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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