M. Night Shyamalan Answers The Door With Knock At The Cabin Trailer
M. Night Shyamalan continues his Shyamalanaissance with his fully embraced niche of mid-budget horror-thrillers, the latest of which includes the second adaptation for Shyamalan (after Old, which was based on a graphic novel) and the official first adaptation of new horror darling Paul G. Tremblay's work, a version of Tremblay's Cabin at the End of the World, here retitled to Knock At The Cabin.
Shyamalan announced that the trailer had dropped and the film, starring Dave Bautista, David Groff, Ben Aldridge, and Rupert Grint, is sure to terrify fans who have been waiting for a taste of what the next picture from the master director is going to be about. Shyamalan is a perfect fit for this type of material and it looks like a real case of two sensibilities combining well.
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The Knock at the Cabin story, for which Shyamalan played his cards close to the vest until some sleuthing uncovered that his movie was, in fact, an adaptation of Tremblay's work, has left fans with some small idea of what to expect. In the book, a gay couple (here Groff and Aldridge) take a vacay to New Hampshire with their adopted daughter, Wen (Kristen Cui), and run into a “family” (read: cult) of religious outsiders led by Leonard (Bautista), who takes them hostage and tells them one of them must kill another to stop the coming apocalypse. The trailer opens with the obviously happy couple and Wen singing K.C. and the Sunshine Band's 1975 hit “Boogie Shoes” as they drive through idyllic summer countryside.
They hit the cabin, unpack, and start to frolic: jumping in the lake, resting on the porch, and little Wen makes a diary of her nature findings—until she looks up
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