10 Awesome Recent Horror Movies You'll Never Watch Again

M Night Shyamalan is a Marmite director if there ever was one, this reputation owing to his propensity for grand narrative twists that make or break a film. Recently, he has attempted to shake this reputation, relying less on bombshells that re-shape the entire movie, and instead laying down small, manageable twists, or dispensing with them altogether. 

Knock at the Cabin falls into the latter category, although the director did everything he could to make us think it wouldn't. The film drops in on Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge), who take their adoptive daughter Wen (Kristen Cui) away to a remote cabin for a few days R&R. Unfortunately for them, four strangers arrive and hold them hostage, insisting that if the small family don’t sacrifice one of their own, they will usher in the apocalypse. 

The central tension lies not in the actions of the hostage takers - who dispatch themselves with makeshift weapons in grim fashion - but in whether any of this is legit. Each piece of affirmative evidence is offset by an equally convincing rebuttal, and it's not until the end that you find out whether this was the work of a team of psychopaths or genuine horsemen of the apocalypse.

However, once you know the truth the film is spent. Everyone came out satisfied and the critics praised it, but despite subverting expectations, Shyamalan's anti-twist produced a similar result to his most denigrated movies, insomuch as nobody wants or needs to see it again.