6/10
Great Potential Wasted in a Poor Screenplay (or Story?)
12 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The sculptor Jess (Katee Sackhoff) unsuccessfully tries to retrieve the custody of her teenage daughter Chloe (Lucy Boynton). During the night, Chloe and her boyfriend Danny (Jordan Bolger) play a prank challenging an urban legend: and they knock twice on the door of the witch Mary Aminov (Ania Marson). Soon Danny is hunted down by a fiend and vanishes. When Chloe is haunted by the evil spirit, she flees to the house of her estranged mother and her husband Ben (Richard Mylan) to stay with her mother. Soon the demon finds her and haunts the house while Ben is traveling. Jess' model Tira (Pooneh Hajimohammadi) sees darkness around Chloe and she researches the Internet about the mystery. Meanwhile Detective Boardman (Nick Moran) is investigating the disappearance of Danny and suspects Jess is manipulating her troubled daughter.

"Don't Knock Twice" is a horror film with great potential, but wasted in a poor screenplay. The plot begins with no development of the characters and the conclusion is rushed. In the end, it is difficult to understand the messy story as a whole. Was the final intention to turn Jess into a demon's slave and trick her? Why Ben and Boardman were murdered? Did Jess go to hell to bring Chloe back? Even the demon is not clear (Ginger). My vote is six.

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