Obviously, the character abuse doesn’t just reflect the physical abuse of Chilean workers, as it’s physical too — almost as if the filmmakers were conscious of what they were doing to our cinema.

| Dec 1, 2023

Roth's lowest-common-denominator approach reduces a primal, campy idea into nothing more than a dull homage to an exploitation flick.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2022

...sonically tortured by techno and stabbed with a fork, Reeves is game for the kitsch carnage that ensues.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 7, 2021

it does leave you hanging there but if you like a guilty pleasure... this is definitely it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 19, 2021

Knock Knock begins with a sinister, sexy premise, but its tonal inconsistency and misguided direction never quite let the film find its feet.

| Nov 6, 2020

Knock Knock tries its hardest to freak us out but ultimately doesn't quite go far enough.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 26, 2019

Roth modernises 1977's Death Game, giving the latest generation a home invasion film with plenty of sharp teeth and even one sassy, satirical tongue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2019

Despite the lack of gore for horror hounds are used to from Roth's previous work; there is no doubt a maturing happening with the projects he attaches himself to. Knock Knock delivers the sexy-psycho thriller it intends.

| Aug 24, 2018

Up until this point, Eli Roth's films have been synonymous with gore and torture, which makes it all the more surprising that Knock Knock is now his best film and contains little to none

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2017

As provocative as it is polarizing and sickly perverse, the film stirs the pot with its portrait of marital malaise and Millennial entitlement.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

...it's ultimately impossible not to wonder what drew Reeves to such misguided, puerile material.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 8, 2016

Although Keanu Reeves has never been noted for his subtlety as a thespian, his performance as a captive husband in Knock Knock could easily be bettered by a stationary object like a chair.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 6, 2016

The movie sits atop three characters that neither Reeves, de Armas nor Lizzo can give enough personality or strength, making for laughable, cartoonish moments. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2016

The direction and script fail hopelessly to build up any tension, the dialogue is pretty witless and the acting is, at very best, variable.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 7, 2016

Intriguing spin on home-invasion thriller ... Slickly produced, energetically played, especially by Reeves as the good husband who, when home alone, falls prey to kinky temptations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2016

Unlike most of his previous films, Eli Roth subtly goes for the jugular with Knock Knock, building to a finale brimming with surreal tension and a wickedly dark sense of humor that left me both cringing and laughing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2016

Another sub-par effort from director Eli Roth, who finally breaks out of his xenophobia, but sadly for a pretty abysmal thriller.

| Nov 19, 2015

Knock Knock, which is about two women wreaking havoc on a married man, aspires to be titillating. But more than anything, both persistently, persuasively angle to make you angry.

| Nov 9, 2015

It's ultimately more interested in being lurid than provocative.

| Nov 6, 2015

The morality here is biblical but also blackly comical; it demands punishment without mercy for the infractions of faithlessness and lust.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2015