Shyamalan's chamber-locked standoff between a cult-like group and a fearful family is occasionally effective but rarely affecting, which doesn't match the bleak tragedy at the heart of Tremblay's story.Įveryone is playing their individual parts well enough as a whole, between same-sex parents Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge), their sweetheart of an adopted daughter Wen (Kristen Cui), and devout captors led by Leonard (Dave Bautista). It's an apocalypse film that doesn't feel all that apocalyptic – an overall one-note and sometimes muted doomsday scenario.
Maybe that's because this time Shyamalan has collaborated with two co-writers – Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman – while adapting Paul Tremblay's devastating novel, The Cabin at the End of the World.
Night Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin feels out of alignment with the filmmaker's catalog of twist-heavy, suspense-latent thrillers.
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