Eli Roth is grabbing headlines and making crimson waves this week following the release of his unsettling, visceral and long-delayed cannibal film The Green Inferno – catch Matt Donato’s thoughts on the gruesome spectacle here – though the director also has another project that is teetering on the verge of its limited release, the Keanu Reeves-led home invasion thriller, Knock Knock.
Remaining at home for the weekend while his wife and kids head off on vacation, Reeves assumes the role of Evan Webber, a loving husband and father who is aiming to keep his life on the straight and narrow as an accomplished architect. One stormy night, however, that equilibrium is effectively upended when he opens the door – and welcomes into his home – two young, unassuming women: Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Bel (Ana de Armas).
Serenading our moral protagonist with compliments and flirtatious compliments, what follows is a passionate affair, though it isn’t long before Knock Knock swaps out sexy thrills for genuine psychological horror. Thrusting not only Evan’s martial life, but his actual life, into peril, the two femme fatales peel back the cozy layers of his suburban life one piece at a time, and the results are truly unsettling. Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand, and Colleen Camp complete the cast.
Keanu Reeves will be seduced and tortured when Eli Roth’s Knock Knock opens in limited release and on select VOD services come October 9.
When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse. A sexy new thriller from director Eli Roth and written by Eli Roth, Nicolás López and Guillermo Amoedo, KNOCK KNOCK stars Keanu Reeves as the family man who falls into temptation and Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas as the seductresses who wreak havoc upon his life, turning a married man’s dark fantasy into his worst nightmare.
