Synopsis
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
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Cast
- Katee SackhoffJess
- Lucy BoyntonChloe
- Javier BotetGinger Special
- Nick MoranDetective Boardman
- Pooneh HajimohammadiTira
- Jordan BolgerDanny
- Callum GriffithsMichael
- Ania MarsonMary Aminov
- David Broughton-DaviesCaretaker
- Lee FenwickMiddle Aged Man
Recommendations
- 67
The A.V. Club
The 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. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film's storylines fail to inform or intensify each other in any theme-deepening or character-developing ways. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The best reason to see Don’t Knock Twice is the volatile chemistry between genre favorites Katee Sackhoff and Lucy Boynton. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
If it had skipped the clichéd supernatural elements to instead concentrate on the relationship between the two central characters, Don’t Knock Twice might have emerged as an interesting film. - 40
Empire
Although replete with creepy shocks, this lacks the narrative finesse to match the committed performances and slick visuals. - 40
Total Film
Inventive camerawork and a creepy (crawly) monster can’t save this messy supernatural horror. - 38
RogerEbert.com
Disappointing because its creators don't do anything interesting with a fairly novel theme: a mother's possessive love for her estranged daughter.
