Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Michael O'Keefe A better than average SyFy feature and worth taking a look at every Halloween season. Back in 1986, three teens dressed in their best Halloween gear knocked on the door a 59 Oakwood Lane only to be brutally murdered. The years go by and "trick-or-treaters" are all advised not to visit that address on Halloween night. The local urban legend grows and when a couple of new kids come to town, what else is there to do but go to knock on that door in hopes of a good scare. Instead of some short lived chills, the never knock warning proved to be legit. A hideous creature is unleashed and ready to instill your worst fear. Written and directed by Sheldon Wilson, this treat features tension, fear and a scary looking creature. Starring are: Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Jodelle Ferland, Klana Maderia, Varun Saranga, Lola Flanery and the Neverknock Creature played by Troy James.

a_baron This is a film on a far from original theme, even though it owes nothing to the "Halloween" franchise. In 1986, some kids knock on the door of a house at Halloween, something they are not supposed to do. They are murdered, and the first police officer on the scene - who reappears later in the film - sees something unreal.Fastforward 31 years, and it's Halloween again. This time, whatever was inside emerges to wreak its horrors on the wider world. Then our first responder rescues two of the damsels, telling them this sort of thing has been happening in other locations for a long time, going back to at least the 1940s. The key to the mystery is the door to the house. And this is where the film really begins to lose its way because this line of investigation is not developed, instead the guy is killed off.There is a bit more to it, the creature, daemon or whatever it is, feeds off fear, producing custom-made hallucinations for its victims, hallucinations that pack a punch or even burn. This could have been a decent film but it takes too much for granted, and the ending is utterly predictable.

TheLittleSongbird Saw 'Neverknock', being fond of horror regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing it.Giving 'Neverknock' a fair chance with being interest and apprehension, it turned out to be better than expected. It is still a rather mediocre film and the potential, while not wasted, is not fully lived up to. Considering the large number of films seen recently being mediocre and less and wasting potential, was expecting worse and was relieved that while wanting in a fair few areas it was actually one of my better recent low-budget viewings.'Neverknock' started off quite well, the first twenty minutes or so starting the film off on a promising, unsettling and atmospheric note that really does intrigue. The antagonist was creepy at times and there are a few neat kills.Production values did have some eeriness and nowhere near as cheap as expected, and the music, which not the most memorable in the world, didn't detract from the atmosphere. The setting is effectively spooky and a few actors were not bad. There are spooky and suspenseful moments and it isn't dull in the first, and the storytelling at first does intrigue.However, the story was severely wanting in the second half after starting off promisingly. It is very disjointed and after the promising start the final third especially loses atmosphere, one loses interest and things start to not make sense. Too much of the film is vague and doesn't explore some elements and story strands enough, parts are so silly it is hard to take it seriously or trying hard not to.Ending is completely unsatisfying, so clumsy, predictable, cheesy and stupid. Got the sense that the writers didn't know how to end the film. Would have liked much more tension and suspense, scares could have been more consistent and some weren't surprising enough. Found too the script to lack natural flow and with a fair bit of cheese and blandness going on, and the characters bland with some adopting some annoying and not always logical decision making. Too many of the actors are poor, Dominique Provost Chalkley grating on the nerves. The direction too often feels phoned in and most of the kills were uncreative and tame. Even the antagonist got cheesy as the film progressed.Altogether, mediocre but could have been worse. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Platypuschow The Scyfy Channel are infamous for their bad films but it's rare they do horror. History has shown they can actually pull it off and within the first 15 minutes of Neverknock I was oddly gripped.The film was tense, the concept original and I expected this to turn out to be a surprisingly entertaining little gem.Sadly the movie runs out of steam quite early on, as if they ran out of ideas. Alas this doesn't turn around and plods along to a laughable pitiful finale that I actually did facepalm at.Don't get me wrong Neverknock has a lot going for it and is still perfectly watchable, it's just one of those films that should/could have been so much better.Further to its credit it actually looks great and raises the question why more Scyfy originals don't have the same level of cgi and practical effects.Starring former child star favourite Jodelle Ferland this is still worth your time but don't expect the greatness that it failed to attain.The Good: Original Fairly decent kills Good antagonist The Bad: Loses steam real quick Incredibly dumb ending Things I Learnt From This Movie: I suddenly want to knock on that door just to see what I'm scared of