Someone's Knocking at the Door

2009

Action / Fantasy / Horror

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.0/10 10 1712 1.7K

nudity sexual murder serial killer slasher series of murders drugs

Plot summary

Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.

Director

Chad Ferrin Photo
Chad Ferrin

Top cast

Lew Temple Photo
Lew Temple as Coroner Tom Collins
Ezra Buzzington Photo
Ezra Buzzington as John Hopper
Mary Rings Photo
Mary Rings as Ray's Mother
Noah Segan Photo
Noah Segan as Justin
720p.BluRay
737.71 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by RatedVforVinny 4 / 10

What was the target audience!?

Some drug induced shock tactics can't save, or paper over the cracks. Bizarre and disturbing are usually (at least) interesting in the movies but this one tries way to hard and any fantastic notions are quickly replaced by rape and graphic violence.
Reviewed by krachtm 5 / 10

Flatliners on acid

The plot: Medical students are haunted by demonic serial rapists.This was an interesting movie. I'm not sure that I could say that I actually liked it, though. It straddled the line between postmodern, avant-garde film and low budget, exploitation trash. People who are expecting a straight-up horror movie will probably be offended or, even worse, bored out of their minds. The plot is all over the place, involving experimental drugs that induce an near-death experience, serial rapists, demonic possession, a police investigation, and perverted medical students.I'm not entirely certain what Chad Ferrin's point is, but, as far as I can tell, he's mocking Jacob's Ladder, Flatliners, Scream, and other late 80s / early 90s horror movies. He also seems to be influenced by Frank Henenlotter and Lloyd Kaufman, with lots of over-the-top, disturbing, and disgusting content thrown in, just to offend people. I'll admit, he did actually get my attention, and I thought I was pretty jaded. There are some pretty nasty rape scenes, which are generally played for black humor. Most of the characters are despicable, and the rest are dumbasses. If you're the kind of person who complains about movies not having a likable protagonist, you should definitely avoid this one.Movies like SKATD often intentionally court as much controversy as they can muster, in order to boost their publicity. Ambivalence is the only reaction that can really harm them. Unfortunately, my own reaction was somewhat ambivalent. I'm tempted to say that it was different, wild, crazy, offensive, or disturbing, but, really, I'm just not sure how much of that is true. However, it's an interesting experiment, and, even if it does fail, it fails in a way that's interesting. I just wish I could figure out with 100% certainty whether this was meant to be parody, homage, or pastiche. Maybe it was meant to be all of them, at the same time. Or it could be that I'm seriously overthinking the whole thing, and it was never meant to be more than low budget trash.Troma fans may want to check it out, but most other people will probably hate it.
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