Knock Knock 2015

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: One of the most entertainingly ludicrous movies of the year. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: "Knock Knock" is not without its campy pleasures - it's just so unpleasant while it's doling them out. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Watching two psychotic sex kittens slap Keanu Reeves around while he's stripped down to his Calvins does, I admit, offer a certain amount of guilty pleasure. Otherwise, there's nobody home in Knock Knock. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Variety: Eli Roth's glossy and reasonably fun update of Peter Traynor's 1977 exploitation movie "Death Game." Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: Maybe Knock Knock is just one long, sick joke, skillfully told by a filmmaker who's always spiked his horror with black humor, just never this effectively. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Roth's tale is fairly twisty, as the behavior of the women grows increasingly violent and more outrageous. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Knock Knock is a pretty flimsy erotic thriller, but thanks to Reeves' oaken obliviousness it's also got a few moments of deliciously trashy fun. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A film that flirts and flirts with explanations for its action without ever delivering. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Roth, who is no Michael Haneke (or even Adrian Lyne), seems unconcerned with creating genuine tension or digging into an allegory of moral consequence. Read more

Glenn Kenny, New York Times: "Knock Knock" ends on a not entirely satisfactory note, but delivers a pretty mean genre wallop getting there (with almost zero gore). Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: While its message is a little simplistic, Knock Knock is shot through with a brilliant, gleefully anarchic dark humor that's equally fun and disturbing. Read more

Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: As a piece of social satire, "Knock Knock" winds up being not just toothless but anticlimactic. Read more

Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail: All foreplay and no, well, climax. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The over-the-top destruction that follows seems all out of proportion to the misdeed, but then logic isn't the purpose of a film like this. Read more

Dan Callahan, TheWrap: "Director Eli Roth's "Knock Knock," a remake of the 1977 exploitation picture "Death Game," sometimes plays more like a comedy than like the grungy thriller that inspired it, but that's often all to the good." Read more

Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun: By the end, Knock Knock turns into a punch-line for a very bad joke. Read more

Michael Nordine, Village Voice: Knock Knock's drop-dead-gorgeous home invaders predicate their cruel game on too shaky a foundation to truly unsettle. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: The characters are driven by convenience, not behavior, and their actions seem like they've been manhandled into place to make the plot work. Read more