Set over the course of a day, the story begins with Evan and Karen and their two young children in seeming familial bliss. It’s an image the film returns to over and over again in its first half, and one can’t help but dread what might be lurking at the end of those spaces. Then Roth’s camera glides through the corridors of the house, making sure to linger on the family photos adorning the walls. It starts off well, with a camera gliding over the Hollywood hills and locating the well-appointed, sheltered home of forty-something architect Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) and his artist wife Karen (Ignacia Allamand). ![]() ![]() But for the first thirty or forty minutes of Knock Knock, I thought maybe this was the one. I’m still waiting for Eli Roth to make a good movie.
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