Freya (Natasha Lamper) has obviously been the victim of some sort of
violence - what is never revealed, but most of her body, including her
head, is bandaged, and she's in a weird enough state of mind to have her
nurse (Helen Ball) worried a bit. When the nurse has left though and
there's a knock at the door, Freya's condition comes to a head, as the
associations these innocent knocks trigger completely derail Freya, and
when she battles to retrieve her sanity, it's really less than granted
that this is a battle she's bound to win ...
Knock Knock Knock Knock is a rather unique horror
experience: Basically this is a film made up from all kinds of horror
clichés from yesteryear's genre fare, especially but not exclusively
Italian shockers from the 1960s and 70s, represented in a audiovisually
perfect state - but at the same time stripped of all explanations,
backstories or subplots. What remains is a very fascinating fragment, a
little piece of horror that drives its skeletal proto-narrative to absurd,
at times even abstract heights, to demonstrate the power of what is pretty
much "pure filmmaking", where the emotional rollercoaster is not
slowed down by narrative necessities or story arcs. Quite breathtaking,
actually, and not only for genre fans!
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