‘Knock at the Cabin’ Trailer #2 Finds a Family Faced with a Horrible Choice

Trailer #2 for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin answers some of the many questions left dangling from the first trailer. In particular, that Shyamalan’s latest film has to do with an impending apocalypse and a family’s incredibly difficult choice.

The cast includes Dave Bautista (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Tony Award and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Mindhunter), Ben Aldridge (Pennyworth), BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Persuasion), Abby Quinn (Little Women), Rupert Grint (Servant), and newcomer Kristen Cui.

Universal Pictures will release Knock at the Cabin, based on the book The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, in theaters on February 3, 2023.

M. Night Shyamalan directed from a screenplay by Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, and Michael Sherman. Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock, and Ashwin Rajan produced, with Steven Schneider, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, and Ashley Fox executive produced.

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Dave Bautista, Abby Quinn, and Nikki Amuka-Bird in ‘Knock at the Cabin’ (Photo © Universal Studios)

The Plot:

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.