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"A creeping sense of dread" Despite the limited budget, Don't Knock Twice is an effective little shocker with beautifully shot opening titles and the feel of superb American chiller It Follows. I like the fact the advertising poster is a throwback to those tongue-in-cheek House movies from the 1980s, and am thrilled Lucy Boynton (from the excellent Sing Street) is given a chance to shine.. 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.

I just got done watching it and I honestly liked it. I didn't like all the jumps scares (I think I counted about 5, and they're pretty predictable), but I enjoyed the plot and the use of the urban legend with it. It won't make a top 10 list for me (mainly because of said jumpscares and use of that stereotypical horror orchestra noises), but I thought it was good. Seemed like I'm in the.. A young woman unleashes a child-stealing witch in 'Don't Knock Twice,' a horror film starring Katee Sackhoff and Lucy Boynton.