It’s the end of the trip as we know it in the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin
From the beach that makes you old to the Dave Bautista that makes you scared
Aux News Knock At The Cabin
Hold on, we’ve got to check our notes here, crunch some numbers, analyze some final data, and… yeah, the math checks out: It seems like M. Night Shyamalan is freakin’ back. After the success of last year’s Old, a good old-fashioned Shyamalan thriller that was an early signal that movie theaters were still cool and popular post-COVID lockdowns, the director has what appears to be another good old-fashioned Shyamalan thriller on his hands now that we’ve seen the trailer for his next film, Knock At The Cabin.
The trailer opens with a loving family going on a carefree vacation to a remote cabin where nothing can go wrong, at least until Dave Bautista casually walks out of the woods and “From M. Night Shyamalan” appears onscreen. From there, it starts to feel like this is going to be some kind of reboot of The Strangers that tries to “really expand the world,” but no. Bautista and his friends—Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Abby Quinn—are there because they had a vision of the apocalypse, and preventing it has something to do with this family and this cabin.
That’s a cool hook! And Bautista carries the hell out of this trailer! As much fun as Drax is in the Marvel movies, we’ll never turn down an opportunity to see him play a very big man who speaks softly and wears glasses.
Knock At The Cabin also stars Ben Aldridge, Jonathan Groff, and Kristen Cui, and though this trailer only says “coming soon,” we heard last December that it was scheduled for February 3, 2023. That’s a fun date (2/3/23), so the fact that it wasn’t mentioned in this trailer seems to hint that the movie might get moved.
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the book sucked ass.
you LOVED it dude
With Shyamalan at the helm, the movie’s sure to be a great improvement!
Just because everyone’s entitled to their opinion doesn’t mean you have to pick the wrong one.
In a hot sexy way or in a bad way?
The trailer looks good and the author has won some awards and accolades so I’m going to listen to the audiobook but reviews did seem mixed. What problems did you have with it?
it would’ve been a good short story but it was way too drawn out, most of the time the narrative just spun its wheels. i also did not care for the ending.
Let’s just say this:Speaking as someone who thinks Shyamalan is a mostly-terrible writer with hacky gimmicks and an almost total ignorance of human motivations, I still want him to try his hand at re-writing the ending rather than going with the one in the book.
Not so much the book as the ending.
So what is the twist?Is the little girl really an alien who is going to destroy the world?Are the two parents really evil dudes who are gonna end the world?Are Batista and his buddies QAnon crazy?Is this all taking place in the head of an autistic boy with a snow globe?
I’m hoping after Old he’ll be done with twist driven stories and just stick with sort of extended Twilight Zone episode fare
But aren’t (nearly) all Twilight Zone episodes exactly the sort of twisty story that M. Night made his career copying? I mean “The two astronauts aren’t from Earth but discovered Earth”, “The ugly woman is actually beautiful but she’s considered ugly because everybody else is a horrible mutant”. “The evil guy is surprised he went to Heaven but it turns out that a place where everything goes your way is actually a version of Hell because there’s no challenge or surprise”, etc.
Twilight Zone was famous for its twists, but it also ran for a lot of episodes. It also had twists and it had twists, so to speak. Like, “Time Enough at Last” has more of a punchline at Burgess Meredith’s expense. And “Terror at 50,000 Feet” and the one with the talking doll just kind of let the situation unfold. I haven’t watched a new movie of his in a while, but Split was a uniquely weird movie, and it didn’t have a plot twist – just a button setting up a sequel.
Yes, yes, The Twilight Zone – renowned for not having twists…
The twist is that it’s secretly a sequel to The Apple.
Do the BIM!
Yep.
there aren’t cabins in Philly!
The twist is!…
It’s Cabin and Eve not Cabin and Steve!
Interesting presentation of the gay ‘angle,’ so to speak…- Married Gay Men > Of *course* they chose a smart Asian daughter. Cliché.
– Jonathan Groff > Gay in real life, but gets good gay/straight roles.
– Ben Aldridge > Also gay in real life, so a real REAL gay couple. Progress.
Will he stick to the book or will he tack on his own ending, requiring twenty minutes of last minute exposition over a soundtrack of driving strings?
This is the one and only time I think that could legitimately be an improvement.
Gosh. That’s a very cute family, and it looks like a super fun cabin. Now I want to go to a cabin.
How does the trailer, nor the author of this, credit that this obviously based off of the book The Cabin at the End of the World. The book was terrific and terrifying, but seeing it visualized is…I don’t know…how do you put a twist on this book? (no spoilers please for others)
Maybe he’s one of those QAnon guys
We all know Rupert Grint is a made up wizard name.
“Him. I choose him.”“You don’t even know what we’re…”“HIM!”
I really hope this is good. Loved the book and that’s a great cast. Fingers crossed.
I think I’ve seen most of his movies, but man, they sure are an uneven lot. I tend to like them, even though I will admit that most of them are not what I would classically call… “good”. For example: Old. Old was fun, but it was also silly and dumb and while I was entertained I couldn’t possibly watch it again. Must suck to hit a home run your first time up and hit a series of fouls and weak dribblers in most of your subsequent outings. I’ll most certainly end up watching this one too… but not expecting great things leads to less disappointment for sure.
It’s really weird the trailer doesn’t give any credit to the book it’s based on. Or the article, really. Cabin at the End of the World, it’s very upsetting.
I was thinking this same exact thing. So odd that none of the marketing mentions the book that the movie is based on. Especially since the trailer makes this look like a very faithful adaptation of the book.
I don’t get the name change. Knock at the Cabin sounds so clunky.
I think most people preferred Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts (I’ve enjoyed everything of his I’ve read, personally), but The Cabin At the End of the World is my personal favorite of his. It’s economical in its length and storytelling, and it’s dread-inducing in its ambiguity.I think I read somewhere that there were some alterations that needed to be made for the film adaptation, and that Tremblay had enjoyed working those out with Shyamalan, but I don’t know to what extent those changes would be. Either way, I’m looking forward to checking it out. I enjoy also Bautista getting roles that are more than “man big, man smash.” I loved the moments of quiet contemplation he had in Blade Runner 2047 before he needed to fight for his life.
It’s been years since I read it and I still don’t know how I feel about it. The ambiguity was maddening at times. It seems like people either love or hate Tremblay, same with M. Night, so I’m definitely intrigued.
Fool me once, M. Night, shame on you.
Fool me a dozen times, shame on me.
… fuck, this actually looks pretty good, though. You’ve got me again, M. Night, you’ve got me.
Book was pretty good! you wouldn’t know it was based on a pretty popular book from the trailer or this article. Interesting to see what they do with the ending, it very much divided people.
I have a hard time imagining a resolution to that set-up that wouldn’t upset people.
It was the trees!
I’m surprised that “From M. Night Shyamalan” isn’t trademarked or copyrighted at this point.What a twist!!
I need to go back and finish Old. I think I got maybe a minute into it and someone said a line I thought was so stupid I decided to watch something else. Can’t remember what it was but it had to be the first or second line of the movie.
I read the Tremblay book and don’t remember a single thing about it other than thinking it was pretty bad.
You guys should mention that this is based on the novel Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. A very good book, though the ending is so incredibly dark I wonder if they’re going to change it for Hollywood.
This is based on Paul Tremblay’s novel, Cabin At The End of The World, right?
Paul Tremblay, the great writer who’s work this is based on (which could have been mentioned in the article, let alone the trailer? Is the studio trying to hide this?) mentioned on Twitter how disappointed his name wasn’t mentioned in the trailer in some way, and that per his contract it was supposed to be.
whenever I see Bautista in anything I am reminded of his literal rags to riches story and how genuinely grateful he seems for the chance James Gunn gave him to have a career, and to get to star in movies like these. Hopefully the movie is also a good vehicle for Bautista and Ron Weaseley, Shyamalan is a bit of a mixed bag any more.