Knock Knock (2015)

[C.A. Hall]

I don't know the right word to describe what I'm seeing in some scenes, sorry, but it's causing a lack of detail in some pretty significant areas of the screen. Skin, background, etc. The appearance of it isn't constant, thank God, but when you see it it isn't pretty.

[Opips3]

(Door open)

What you want?

Okay, bye

(Door close)

[C.A. Hall]

The phrase is color-banding, by the way. Courtesy of this youtube review:

Knock Knock (2015) Blu Ray Review and Unboxing - YouTube

[Opips3]

(Door unlocked)

Damn I forget locked.

[C.A. Hall]

Originally Posted by Opips3

(Door unlocked)

Damn I forget locked.

Having fun I see.

[Seymour]

PQ didn't seem bad at all, but damn this movie was horrid. I can't believe this is the best Eli Roth can come up with.

[thompsonjohn]

Originally Posted by Seymour

PQ didn't seem bad at all, but damn this movie was horrid. I can't believe this is the best Eli Roth can come up with.

It's not exactly the best HE came up with.. If you bothered to watch the under 15-minute "making-of", the film is based off a 70's film called "Death Game." I guess you can call it a remake, some of the dialogue is identical. Colleen Camp who cameos in this and I think is a producer as well, was one of the girls in the original.

Not to make excuses for the guy, but it's not that bad. It's likely one of many things he wanted to do and didn't cost a lot and was easiest to get off the ground. I mean, between this and "The Green Inferno", it's getting him a potential summer blockbuster with Warner Bros.

[Seymour]

Originally Posted by thompsonjohn

It's not exactly the best HE came up with.. If you bothered to watch the under 15-minute "making-of", the film is based off a 70's film called "Death Game." I guess you can call it a remake, some of the dialogue is identical. Colleen Camp who cameos in this and I think is a producer as well, was one of the girls in the original.

Remake or not, if this is the best he can come up with (as a director), then maybe he should think about retirement. Can't believe the guy that directed Cabin Fever and Hostel has moved onto to this...

[BoSoxFan]

Originally Posted by Seymour

Remake or not, if this is the best he can come up with (as a director), then maybe he should think about retirement. Can't believe the guy that directed Cabin Fever and Hostel has moved onto to this...

Like thompsonjohn said, this obviously isn't his best, but a film he wanted to make. Go check out The Green Inferno if you haven't yet.

[kidglov3s]

I rented this on Vudu back in October so I can't speak to the video quality but oh man it was a shit movie.

That said, I did love Green Inferno, which in a just world would've been the punctuation to Blumhouse 2015 rather than PA6/Jem. Saying that as a fan of the BH Jem movie.

[Seymour]

One thing I did find interesting, all 3 of the leads (Keanu, Lorenza, Ana) had body doubles listed in the closing credits. That was another bummer on top of a multitude of bummers.

[MisterFantastic]

It was free pizza

[thompsonjohn]

Good lord, this is just the latest movie in the guy's career. Who is out there saying, "this is the best he can do"?

You know, if "Bridge of Spies" is the best Steven Spielberg can do.. Don't you think he should hang it up? Retirement? Some of you guys...

[GasmaskAvenger]

Honestly, the "alternate ending" should've been a post-credit stinger, though to be fair, having this be the movie Keanu did after "John Wick" wasn't exactly the smartest move since you really expected him to gun-fu those damn so-not-underage women to death.

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by Seymour

PQ didn't seem bad at all, but damn this movie was horrid. I can't believe this is the best Eli Roth can come up with.

yeah, it was an AWFUL movie. I barely made it through it.

[thompsonjohn]

Originally Posted by wormraper

yeah, it was an AWFUL movie. I barely made it through it.

This wasn't the best picture of the year or anything, but awful? It's okay. But, nothing like those quality WWE studio productions that you have in your collection right? I mean every "12 Rounds" movie?

[henry00x]

i thought this was actually pretty damn good

[kidglov3s]

Originally Posted by thompsonjohn

This wasn't the best picture of the year or anything, but awful? It's okay. But, nothing like those quality WWE studio productions that you have in your collection right? I mean every "12 Rounds" movie?

It's an epic saga of terrorist vs. man and wife (wives and thighs in Orton's case).

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by thompsonjohn

This wasn't the best picture of the year or anything, but awful? It's okay. But, nothing like those quality WWE studio productions that you have in your collection right? I mean every "12 Rounds" movie?

Every bit as awful. At least the 12 rounds movies are bad and cheesy. Knock Knock had almost no redeeming qualities.

You can like it if you want but I found it abysmal personally

[thompsonjohn]

Originally Posted by wormraper

Every bit as awful. At least the 12 rounds movies are bad and cheesy. Knock Knock had almost no redeeming qualities.

You can like it if you want but I found it abysmal personally

Well, that's just it, I liked, I didn't love it or anything and probably won't revisit it for quite a long time, well unless I decide to check out the commentary to see what they all have to say regarding the film.

I think some people forget that not every film a prolific director does is not exactly always their "passion project", sometimes these guys just need the work, need the money like anybody else that isn't living or working within the confines of the Hollywood system and I think that's what this was. I can't speak for him, but I'm sure Roth wanted to do something, Colleen Camp liked his work, she was associated with "Death Game" by way of starring in it, this probably came together really fast and why the hell not.

Too many people are overthinking this. It's just a small, low budget picture that has something to say about art and society among some other things, that's all. And I agree, it's not Roth's best and it's not really an original idea from Roth anyway. And at the same time it's not the worst thing to happen to him, it had to have been enough of a success on the home video and VOD level, along with "The Green Inferno", for Warner Bros. to be looking at him to helm, the long in development hell shark project, "Meg."

"The Green Inferno" and "Knock Knock" have a collective budget of $8 million dollars. "The Green Inferno" made $8.9 million at the box office alone, re-cooping and out-grossing the budgets of both films combined. So, after you factor in the very small box office profits of "Knock Knock" and it's VOD and home video money, the guy did very well, and there's no reason to knock him as a filmmaker, he knows how to make a movie that obviously people will turn out for and spend money on, but he can do it on a budget and frankly I really cannot wait, if in fact he gets to do it, cannot wait to see how he does with "Meg."

But, of course you can knock him, if you don't like his movies, I'm just saying as a filmmaker you cannot knock his ability to take low-budget projects, and always turn a profit on them, while also making them entertaining and in my opinion not entirely bad.