The
Sixth Sense
,
Unbreakable
,
Signs
,
The Village
… At M. Night Shyamalan, no entertainment worthy of the name without “twist”, that is to say spectacular revelation or reversal of the situation.
An outstanding manipulator at ease in all genres (thriller, science fiction, fantasy), Shyamalan was carried very high by critics and the public before falling very low.
And to bounce back with
The Visit
, a low-budget horror film, and a trilogy (
Unbreakable, Split
and
Glass
), a fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the American superhero.
His penultimate film,
Old
(2021) with Gael Garcia Bernal and Vicky Krieps as a couple of tourists on a mysterious beach, left him rather indifferent.
Knock at the Cabin
comes out when we don't really know what to expect from the ex-prodigy.
Here he adapts a novel by Paul Tremblay published by Éditions Gallmeister under the title
La Cabane aux confins du monde
.
Cabin or chalet, both translations are possible.
Isolated on the edge of a lake…
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