![]() The ostensible leader of the group, the hulking Leonard (“Guardians of the Galaxy’s” Dave Bautista), explains that the three must choose one member of the family to die, and kill him or her themselves. Launching immediately into the plot, the film begins with seven-year-old Wen (Kristen Cui) and her two dads, Eric and Andrew (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge), vacationing in a remote cabin when four strangers arrive, warning them that they face “tough decisions, terrible decisions.” Economically told and cleverly calibrated to maximize its claustrophobic setting, it’s among the most effective films the director has delivered since his mid-career slump, making this a door well worth opening.Īlthough the confined nature of the action has something in common with Shyamalan’s early alien-invasion movie “Signs,” the premise of Tremblay’s book (titled “The Cabin at the End of the World”) in this form more closely resembles “The Rapture,” Michael Tolkin’s unsettling 1991 rumination on the prospect of the apocalypse. ![]() Night Shyamalan’s forays into adapting other material came up limp with “Old” but fare considerably better with “Knock at the Cabin,” a crisp and creepy thriller based on Paul Tremblay’s novel. ![]()
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