Knock Knock (2015) poster
2015 · horror · thriller · crime · survival

Knock Knock

Directed by Eli Roth1h 39m2015
ElsewhereIMDb4.9115kRT37%Metacritic53
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Our read · Knock Knock (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a sleazy home-invasion thriller that punishes bad choices brutally.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youa rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysexual violencegraphic violencecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightWatching with anyone else—or anyone squeamish about sexual humiliation.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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