Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Don’t Knock Twice (2016)

Legend has it if you knock twice she will come for you. Who? The old lady that used to live in the abandoned house.  Chloe believes the old lady took her friend Micheal when they were kids. She reported it to the police. However the police never found any proof. 

Now a teenager, Chloe and her boyfriend Danny go to the home. Danny says there’s nothing to be afraid of because the lady is dead and house is empty. He knocks on the door and nothing happens. So Chloe knocks too.  Later that night Danny disappears and now Chloe is seeing something in the dark.

Desperate to get away from what is haunting her, Chloe shows up on Jess’s doorstep and asks to stay.  Jess abandoned Chloe years before and recently tried to get her back. Chloe didn’t want to leave the state home for abandoned children. I guess their standards aren’t strict since she’s walked off and they are letting her stay with Jess. They’re  doing a house call to see if Jess can provide an okay place to live, which you think they’d want to do before letting her stay.

There’s not a lot of backstory on why Jess left Chloe at a state home other than Jess was on drugs.  She’s now a successful sculptor, married to a rich guy and owns a huge house.  Yet it’s not clear why she never tried to get Chloe back until now. 

It’s also not clear why Chloe would knock on the door of the person she believes is a demon who took her friend.  Yes, the lady is dead but if she was actually a demon, then death isn’t going to stop this. And when the client Jess is sculpting says Chloe has darkness around her and screams at her to stay away from her baby, no one questions how she would know this. 


Ridiculous dialogue

[Police say Chloe tormented the old lady so much over Michael’s disappearance that she killed herself.]
Chloe: It’s my fault.
Jess: No it’s not. Don’t say that.


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