M. Night Shyamalan explains how he tells stories in Knock at the Cabin featurette - Digital Trends

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M. Night Shyamalan has been scaring audiences for implicit 20 years, starting with 1999’s The Sixth Sense. Shyamalan’s intelligence thrillers are afloat of supernatural elements that typically extremity with a huge crippled twist. His latest venture, Knock astatine the Cabin, combines a location penetration with the apocalypse to archer a communicative that feels larger than beingness contempt taking spot successful a secluded location.

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“I judge successful this benignant of storytelling that erstwhile you travel to the movie theater, you privation to spot thing incredibly powerful, incredibly emotional, experiential, but you privation it to beryllium bigger than life,” Shyamalan said successful a featurette. “I’m precise drawn to stories of confinement and telling precise ample stories done a tiny window.”

Parents Eric (Mindhunter’s Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Pennyworth’s Ben Aldridge), on with their young girl Wen (Kristen Cui), question to a secluded compartment for a household vacation. Their getaway is interrupted by 4 strangers – Leonard (Dune’s Dave Bautista), Adriene (Old’s Nikki Amuka-Bird), Sabrina (Little Women’s Abby Quinn), and Redmond (Servant’s Rupert Grint) – who invade the compartment and clasp the household hostage. The household indispensable willingly sacrifice 1 of its members, oregon the satellite volition end.

“There is simply a family, and their location is invaded by 4 strangers who person been asked to marque a prime of sacrifice to prevention humanity,” Bautista said. There is nary spot to run. There’s nary spot to hide. So I deliberation it’s similar layers of nightmares successful this film.”

Poster for the 4 strangers successful Knock astatine the Cabin.

Shyamalan directs Knock astatine the Cabin from a screenplay helium co-wrote with Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. The movie is based connected Paul G. Tremblay’s 2018 best-selling caller The Cabin astatine the End of the World.

Knock astatine the Cabin arrives lone successful theaters connected February 3.