Knock Knock

Keanu Reeves has a terrible role, but he played it about as well as could be expected. But his character is incredibly boring and annoying, which is a problem for the whole film. There are some good elements, the idea with the girls is well-executed, but overall, it's nothing that should grab your attention. The principles of a home invasion are adhered to, but you will get nothing extra - except for one scene with the goats. (04/08/2016)

This film was a big question mark for me before the première. The premise looked uninteresting, ordinary, and utterly unattractive, and I couldn’t figure out why Eli Roth had picked a project like this. But it wasn’t bad after all, quite the contrary, thanks to the ending, I think it’s more entertaining and subversive than I could have ever expected. The worst is actually Keanu Reeves, who is really unfitting for the role of a desperate and helpless father, and his performance is almost funny. (10/18/2015)

The first act is brilliant in its own way. If I had to pick a film I thought was made on drugs, this would be among the first – the cheesy portrait of the perfect family, with a theatrical Reeves who seems to have no idea what he's in for, is priceless. Then the two soaked hotties show up to gently torture the exemplary and temporarily abandoned father with their throbbing clitorises, and it's bad. Daddy gets groped and the two sexy chicks turn into emancipated furies who make a big mess of their victim's perfectly ordered life. It's still a great parody, but somehow it dawned on me that Eli Roth was serious, and gradually I found myself internally debating which of the two invasive creatures I'd rather be tempted by. They both won in the end, unlike Reeves, who really can’t put this behind him – but at least his forced wailing is somehow iconic, not far from Nicolas Cage’s in The Wicker Man. The subversive ending was inevitable given Roth's lack of psychology and his Tarantino-like desire to pose. Eventually, though, it holds its own in that regard, and Knock Knock is beautifully goofy, rather than moronic and unwatchable. 55 % (06/29/2022)

Eli Roth's sexually charged appetizer before The Green Inferno was pretty good. Knock Knock doesn't lean too much on horror, rather it attacks the psychological components, which in my opinion could have been escalated much more aggressively, but it’s still decent entertainment with an erotic. The beautiful Ana de Armas induces an erection every time she's in the frame, and I don't think I've seen a more arousing threesome in a horror film. Story 6/10, Atmosphere 6/10, Gore 1/10, Visuals 8/10, Action 5/10, Entertainment 7/10.70% (10/10/2015)

In the first half of Knock Knock, Eli Roth manages to render the growing tension between the characters and the behavior of Keanu Reeves’ model husband in an unusual situation. In the second half, however, this psychological storyline, which is of key importance for the film, falls apart like a house of cards and the girls become unbelievably (and illogically) over-the-top characters in a brainless “horror” B-movie. (06/06/2017)