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‘Knock at the Cabin’ review: Knock all you want, no one’s home in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest

“Knock at the Cabin” is a real load — 100 lugubrious minutes of what is intended as steadily mounting dread and apocalypse prevention seminar. It’s frustrating because writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has made seriously good films and some that go splat. With every new Shyamalan project, millions of moviegoers have a way of holding out hope based on his best efforts, and the luck of the ...
Poster art for“ Knock at the Cabin,” adapted from Paul Tremblay’ s 2018 horror novel“ The Cabin at the End of the World.”.

“Knock at the Cabin” is a real load — 100 lugubrious minutes of what is intended as steadily mounting dread and apocalypse prevention seminar.

It’s frustrating because writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has made seriously good films and some that go splat. With every new Shyamalan project, millions of moviegoers have a way of holding out hope based on his best efforts, and the luck of the draw.

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