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[Someone's Knocking At The Door]
Plot:In this genre-defying grind-house throwback, a group of drug-addled, sexually deviant medical students are systematically terrorized by Wilma and John Hopper. The Hoppers, serial murderers and rapists, mysteriously return from the 1970s, and bring horrifying psychedelia with them. With comedy, subversion, satire and true gore, the students must face escalating attacks, shocking circumstances and visceral disgust.
Cast:
Noah Segan,
Andrea Rueda,
Ezra Buzzington,
Timothy Muskatell,
Vernon Wells,
Lew Temple,
Ricardo Gray,
Jon Budinoff,
Silvia Spross,
Elina Madison,
Jordan Lawson,
Joseph Pilato,
Mary Rings,
Trent Haaga,
Sean Cain.
My Thoughts:Craaaaaazy man.
Review:Well, I have to say, I certainly didn't see this coming. Due to hit DVD on the 25th of May, Chad Ferrin's horror flick, "Someone's Knocking At The Door"...is one indie horror film that crosses all kinds of lines, and does a lot of unpredictable things. The end result is a very weird, psychadellic, throwback/grindhouseesque picture, that takes risks most movies won't take.
The film, which is shot in an old technicolor sort of way, follows a group of drug-addicted youth, who's experimentation with a drug from the 70's, puts them into a state of mental dementia, and also sends them into the clutches of a serial killer couple from the 70's who raped their victims to death. Yep, this is the first horror film where the killers actually rape their victims to death.
Call it twisted, call it crazy, call it gross (I know I did), but Ferrin as a filmmaker took on some really big challenges to even consider making a movie this kooky and out there. However, the pic isn't just an exploitation horror film, as surrounding the grotesque murders, which begin when one member of the group of friends experiments with the drug, is the sex,drugs,party-culture of the young people of today.
Throwing caution to the wind, and really, the way these kids are systematically murdered ties in with their carefree lifestyles, and also their drug-addled lifestyles as well. The basic message of the story is sex and drugs leads to death. Every horror film uses that message to further their story, but this movie exploits the message more literally. Ezra Buzzington plays the male half of the serial-killing couple, and plays the part to perfection.
His character is so sick, disgusting, gross, disturbing, and pretty much just downright fucked up, that you hate him immediately, and hope in the end, he gets what's coming to him. Buzzington always seems to be able to play these roles quite well, the twisted fucked up killer guy. You may remember him from "The Hills Have Eyes" as Goggle. And as for Chad Ferrin, well, this kind of material from him shouldn't surprise most genre fans.
He's the guy who brought us "Easter Bunny Kill Kill" back in 2006, a film where a person dressed in easter bunny garb goes on a slashing spree. "Someone's Knocking" though crosses the lines of good taste and class even more than that movie ever did. And is probably the first movie in awhile to literally make me physically ill while watching some of the scenes. This certainly isn't a movie for the weak of heart, and some of the stuff in it even surprised me.
As for the acting, it's pretty decent, and the funeral scene is one of the movies best moments. As is the interrogation scenes, one in particular where one of the group of friends, who has a speech impediment, has trouble telling his story to the cops. The kills, as I mentioned above, considering the characters are "screwed" to death, are very vile, sick, and twisted. Hard to watch as well, but again...Ferrin gets credit for doing something beyond the norm.
Blood and gore are also always on display in this movie, and along with the blood and gore, the film also delivers some very shocking moments. One of the major ones involving one of the female leads being chased down a hallway by an assailant who is um, well...less than decent, shall we say. But this scene could've been enhanced greatly had the aforemention female lead not kept falling down every second.
That nearly killed what was otherwise a pretty outrageous and shocktacular scene. The movies finale is where the film really does it's best work though, as it gives us a twist that ironically enough, manages to remain a surprise and a secret pretty much all the way through, and isn't revealed until the director wants it to be. Kudos to Ferrin for managing to keep the twist ending from accidentally falling out of the bag too far ahead of schedule.
While also doing a lot of cool little things to throw the viewer off the track of the movies possible twist. "Someone's Knocking" is indie horror at quite a strong level. It's tasteless, doesn't hold back, pretty much shreds the envelope, and takes schlock and awe horror to a whole nother level. If you can tolerate or stomach, pretty much all of the films death scenes, you might find the movies ambition to cross the line, and then blow it up with C4 explosives, really impressive.
Positives:A decent script, Ferrin doesn't push the envelope, he shreds it by taking bad taste to a whole nother level with this movie. Many shocking, tasteless, and downright crazy moments. The technicoloresque way the movie was filmed was also likeable.
Negatives:Some of the films kills went a tad bit too far as far as gross-out factor was concerned.
Overall:Three stars out of four.
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