Confessions of a Film Junkie: A review of “Someone’s Knocking at
the Door”.
By: Brian Cotnoir
Add this to the list
of the Most Unpleasant Films I’ve ever sat through in just one sitting. The thing that led me to want to watch this
film was it boasting on one of its movie posters that it is the: “Most Depraved
Film of the 21st Century”. That’s probably a fair title to give this
film. I mean with multiple graphic scenes depicting rape and mutilation it’s
impossible to not feel uncomfortable or uneasy while watching this film.
The
film I’m talking about is “Someone’s Knocking at the Door”, and I have to be
perfectly honest with everyone: despite the graphicness of this film and all
the unpleasant things that happen in the film, I still thought it was a good
film. The film is about a group of Med
Students in College—most of them who have some pretty bad drug addictions—and one
night one of the students, Ray, is attacked in his dorm after shooting up an
unknown narcotic. Ray is brutally raped
to death by an unknown attacker, and now the police are out to find out who
killed him. Ray’s angry and grieving
mother suspects it was one Ray’s friends who did it, so the police bring in his
friends to question them and see if any of them knew who could have killed
Ray. As it turns out the students broke
into a records room on campus and uncovered an experimental drug called
“Taldon”. Ray and most of his friends
shot it up in the room and later uncovered a file that the drug was created in
1973 by a former Professor at the college to treat a schizophrenic couple named
John & Wilma Hopper. As the students
look more into the file they find out that John & Wilma were both serial
rapists and raped all of their victims to death—including the professor who
created Taldon—and now some of them believe that the drug may have been what
caused John & Wilma to commit their violent sexual crimes. After find out this fact the med students
& friends become fearful that the drug they injected into their bodies may
have caused one of them might of unknowingly committed the sexual assault that
killed their friend Ray, or maybe John & Wilma (who reportedly escaped
after killing the Professor) have come back to finish what they started.
Holy
shnikes where do I even begin to dissect this film? I guess I should probably start with the
story. The story is actually quite
creative. It’s violent as all hell, but creative. It’s also mysterious and it’s terrifying. I
don’t want to give away too many details or spoilers about this story. It has an original story, and there is a lot
mystery and build-up towards the end and I would hate to give away the
ending. There is a twist ending to
it—that is vaguely reminiscent of the ending to “Sucker Punch”—and I didn’t
think it was bad, but I can easily understand how some people could call it a
copout ending.
Actor Noah Segan plays Justin in the film |
The actors in
this film are also gave competent performances. No one’s really bad, but none of them are
really anything special. Noah Segan is
probably the most notable actor in this film, and for those of you who read my
review of “Deadgirl”, know that I think he get’s type-casted into playing the
role of the film’s “Biggest a$$ hole”, but I was actually surprised that he
wasn’t in this film. His character, Justin,
is pretty douchy at times, but he’s not the most deplorable character in the
film. Most of the film is told from his
perspective, and I actually like how they told his story in the film; it was
unique, it was unexpected, and this probably the only time, so far that, I’ve
ever liked Noah Segan in a film (by the way did you also know that he was the
voice of Henry on the Nickelodeon sketch cartoon show “KaBlam!”?).
Well that sure was unpleasant. |
I felt that this film was well
made even with the excessive violence and told it’s story in a way that was
mysterious but comprehendible. If you’re
a sick f*ck like myself and love to torture yourself with movies that have unpleasant
imagery and graphic violence then this film is for you, other than that you will
not like this film.
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