The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan’s newest movie, Knock at the Cabin, releases this Friday in theaters. Ahead of that, reviews for the film have begun to appear online. Similar to many of Shyamalan’s films, review scores for the movie–which he wrote and directed–are all over the place.
Knock at the Cabin is Shyamalan’s first movie since 2021’s Old and his first R-rated movie since The Happening in 2008. Knock at the Cabin stars Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge as a couple who bring their daughter to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. Unfortunately for them, they are taken hostage by a cast of strangers played by Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Abby Quinn.
These four strangers demand that the parents make a choice–to sacrifice one of the three of them–to save the world from the apocalypse. Every time one of them says no, hundreds of thousands of people die. As with Shyamalan’s other films, there will probably be a big twist at the end.
