
The sculptor Jess unsuccessfully tries to retrieve the custody of her teenage daughter Chloe. During the night, Chloe and her boyfriend Danny play a prank challenging an urban legend: and they knock twice on the door of the witch Mary Aminov. Soon Danny is hunted down by a fiend and vanishes. When Chloe is haunted by the evil spirit, she flees to the house of her estranged mother and her husband Ben to stay with her mother. Soon the demon finds her and haunts the house while ... (Full plot summary below)
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The sculptor Jess unsuccessfully tries to retrieve the custody of her teenage daughter Chloe. During the night, Chloe and her boyfriend Danny play a prank challenging an urban legend: and they knock twice on the door of the witch Mary Aminov. Soon Danny is hunted down by a fiend and vanishes. When Chloe is haunted by the evil spirit, she flees to the house of her estranged mother and her husband Ben to stay with her mother. Soon the demon finds her and haunts the house while Ben is traveling. Jess' model Tira sees darkness around Chloe and she researches the Internet about the mystery. Meanwhile Detective Boardman is investigating the disappearance of Danny and suspects Jess is manipulating her troubled daughter.
Leave your thoughts about Don't Knock Twice.
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe best reason to see Don’t Knock Twice is the volatile chemistry between genre favorites Katee Sackhoff and Lucy Boynton. |
| The A.V. ClubAlex McCownThe new supernatural horror film Don’t Knock Twice benefits greatly from the direction of Caradog James. He takes a story that almost immediately plunges viewers into an unexplained and messy mythology and, for the better part of an hour, manages to distract from its weaker aspects by implying something far more interesting. Unfortunately, then the third act happens, and the spell is broken. |
| PopMattersAmanda GilroySavor its clever annotations of feminist horror film theory. Or just enjoy the more visceral pleasures of fear. |
| NerdistScott WeinbergWhile a substantial early portion of Don't Knock Twice may feel a bit familiar, it quickly finds its feet and settles into a nice spooky groove that fans of indie/import horror will be sure to appreciate. |
| La Nación (Argentina)Javier Porta FouzThere's no humor, but there are clues as to what this film could've been if it had tried harder to sustain the relationships between its characters. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Film Journal InternationalMatt DonatoStale, without chills, and not the demonic game of ding-dong-ditch we'd hope for. |
| Radio TimesAlan JonesIt's essentially the intuitive accuracy of shattered Sackhoff's performance that makes this Old Dark House chestnut worth catching. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersThe actual horror and thriller aspects just don't gel together with any of the other elements, making James' latest genre effort a movie I respect multiple elements of even if I can't say I enjoyed near as much as I can't help but wish I did. |
| TheFrightFile.comDustin PutmanThe picture ends up in a state of flux, not doing anything wrong enough to be bad but not fully realized enough to be more than a missed opportunity. |
| Slant MagazineHenry StewartThe film's storylines fail to inform or intensify each other in any theme-deepening or character-developing ways. |