{"id":10178,"date":"2023-03-17T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2023-03-17T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T12:30:57","slug":"mini-reviews-knock-at-the-cabin-and-the-night-flier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/?p=10178","title":{"rendered":"Knock at the Cabin and The Night Flier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cabin-knock-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10191\" width=\"420\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cabin-knock-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cabin-knock-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cabin-knock-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cabin-knock.png 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KNOCK AT THE CABIN<\/strong> <em>(2023)<\/em> Not-really-horror horror from the increasingly unreliable M. Night Shyamalan, which promises spectacular, apocalyptic destruction but, sadly, never delivers the goods. While on a woodsy vacation, a small family is taken hostage by a quartet of armed people who all claim to share the same vision of the end of the world, which only a sacrifice can stop. Guess who has to make the sacrifice? Plodding and uninvolving, <em>Knock at the Cabin <\/em>relies so heavily on its &#8220;What If?&#8221; scenario that it forgets to have any fun with the material. Instead of sympathetic, well-written characters trapped in a doomsday plot (as with Shyamalan&#8217;s <em>Signs<\/em>), the characters in <em>Knock<\/em> feel like manufactured caricatures written for the purpose of creating inauthentic drama, without the slightest possibility of a genuine outcome. <strong>D<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTcyNjM0NTg0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjQwMzU1MzI@._V1_-1-1024x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10196\" width=\"417\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTcyNjM0NTg0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjQwMzU1MzI@._V1_-1-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTcyNjM0NTg0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjQwMzU1MzI@._V1_-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTcyNjM0NTg0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjQwMzU1MzI@._V1_-1-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTcyNjM0NTg0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjQwMzU1MzI@._V1_-1.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE NIGHT FLIER<\/strong> <em>(1997<\/em>) A surprisingly good adaptation of the Stephen King short story, in which ruthless tabloid journalist, Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer), pursues vampiric serial killer Dwight Renfield (get it?), who uses a private plane to fly into remote towns and massacres anyone nearby. The rather oddball scenario could have been made to be superbly corny and predictable, but luckily director\/writer Mark Pavia treats the material with the highest respect, adding an eye for creepy, grisly detail that makes the story move at a good pace. A sense of humor and some effective set pieces &#8211; a lengthy hallucination, in which Dees is trapped in a nightmare of blood-spattered vampires is terrific stuff &#8211; help to create a good, if imperfect, flick. The KNB make-up FX are excellent. <strong>B<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023) Not-really-horror horror from the increasingly unreliable M. Night Shyamalan, which promises spectacular, apocalyptic destruction but, sadly, never delivers the goods. 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