![]() They’ve left civilization for a quiet getaway in the woods, and all is well until a man named Leonard arrives. Let’s dive in to the major differences between book and film, and pin-point all the ways the latter seems to fundamentally misunderstand what makes the former so wonderful and unique.Īs previously mentioned, the story centers on Eric and Andrew and their adopted daughter Wen. ![]() Shyamalan winnows all this down into a tense thriller that works fine up until around the third act, when the narrative deviates from the source material and becomes decidedly, well, Shyamalan-esque. But a typical “home invasion” this isn’t, and in turning genre tropes on their head, Tremblay unveils a devastating meditation on the slippery nature of faith, love and survival. The premise of Tremblay’s work, which won Best Novel at the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards, begins deceptively simple: A family’s vacation goes sideways when four armed people break into their lakeside cabin and unleash horror. The script was originally written by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, but was re-written (and presumably retitled) by Shyamalan. What happens when a novel of unabashed and beautiful ambiguity gets in the hands of a decidedly unsubtle - at times even blunt - filmmaker? Knock at the Cabin happens, an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, written and directed by the one and only M. ![]()
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