Knock at the Cabin will debut in theaters on February 3, 2023.

M.Night Shyamalan, one of the most popular filmmakers of recent decades, is ready to return to the cinema with his new horror project, Knock at the Cabin (in Italy it will arrive in cinemas with the title Bussano Alla Porta), based on the novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. The film – expected for February 3, 2023, distributed by Universal – is ready to show itself in the first, enigmatic and disturbing, trailer.

Knock at the Cabin – plot, trailer, and cast of the horror by M. Night Shyamalan

At the moment little is known about the plot of Knock at the Cabin, but judging by the first images of the trailer and the first comments leaked online, the film would be part of the “home invasion” horror genre. M. Night Shyamalan revealed that the film is the script he wrote in the least amount of time and that the final draft was just a hundred pages long. According to some sources, the atmosphere of Knock at the Cabin is reminiscent of another director’s masterpiece, The Visit.

At the center of the story is a gay couple, formed by Eric and Andrew, happily married and parents of a 7-year-old girl, Wen. To lend body and voice to the two protagonists are respectively Ben Aldridge (Fleabag, Pennyworth) and Jonathan Groff – known to the general public for his role in the Netflix series Mindhunter and in Matrix Resurrections. 

Interpreting the four psychopaths who besiege the hut of the couple – lost in the woods of New Hampshire – are instead Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old), Dave Bautista – Drax of the MCU, coming soon on Netflix in the sequel to Knives Out -, Rupert Grint – Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter saga, formerly directed by Shyamalan in the Apple Servant series -, and Abby Quinn. The director returns to the cinema after the success of Old, which hit the box office all over the world in the summer of 2021, while not totally convincing critics and audiences.