10 Recent Horror Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good
4. Knock At The Cabin
The talented yet inconsistent M. Night Shyamalan has been doing better recently, but his movies continue to be divisive affairs. His films still struggle with uneven acting, wooden dialogue, and gimmicky plot twists, and his first feature of the 2020s, Old, was something of a mixed bag, with many awesome elements but a few terrible ones too.
Shyamalan's next film after Old was Knock at the Cabin, a biblical horror flick that, unusually for Shyamalan, doesn't really have a plot twist to speak of. Well, not in the story itself; the real twist is that, out of nowhere, Shyamalan delivered arguably his greatest movie since Unbreakable.
Knock is an involving, anxiety-inducing, and visually stunning flick that puts its characters and viewers through the wringer, taking them on a powerful, gruelling journey that only gets better and better before building up to an immensely satisfying, surprisingly hopeful finish.
Better still, this movie avoids virtually all of the usual pitfalls with M. Night Shyamalan. Aside from the lack of a twist, the dialogue is good and never clunky, and the cast - which includes a rare post-Harry Potter film performance from Rupert Grint and a fantastic against-type turn from Dave Bautista - is uniformly excellent.
Knock at the Cabin, as well as 2024's Trap, affirm that a new Shyamalan movie is something to get excited about, not something to dread. Come on, The Happening, The Last Airbender, After Earth, that was all a long time ago now - he's found his stride again.