KNOCK KNOCK (2018)

 

(Director/screenwriter: Paul Catalanotto)

Review

In this six-minute horror short, a woman (Christine Tonry, ANTI-VAXXER, 2021), excited and getting ready for a date, is stalked by a stealthy, hard-to-track faint knock in her house. She follows the intermittent and spooky knocking throughout it, and you know it’s not likely to end well for her.

KNOCK is an all-around solid, every-shot-counts, suspenseful short, with—aside from the woman not grabbing any kind of weapon—a promising premise, and a worthwhile not-quite-a-twist ending. Hamp Overton’s (SACRILEGE, 2017) cinematography is impressive, especially considering KNOCK’s limited budget, and its sound department (John Charles, Mike Gilbert, and Qing Yu) maintains an unsettling feel throughout. This feels like a “proof of concept” work, one worth watching.