What happens at the end of Knock Knock? That Facebook upload, explained
Eli Roth's Knock Knock came out on 9 October 2015 through Lionsgate Premiere — a remake of Death Game, shot in 1974 and released in 1977, with Keanu Reeves as architect Evan Webber and Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas as the two women who knock on his door during a rainstorm.
At dawn, Genesis and Bel tie Evan up with a garden hose and bury him in his own back garden with only his head above ground. Genesis raises a rock over his skull, then misses on purpose. The whole weekend, they tell him, was a game — they were never underage and never intended to kill him. Then she takes out his phone.
The upload
Genesis had filmed Bel assaulting Evan the previous night, using Evan's own phone. Standing over the hole, she posts that video to his Facebook profile and sets it to public while he watches from ground level, unable to move his arms.
That's the actual point of the exercise. The pair explain that this is a hobby: seducing married men with children and dismantling everything attached to them. The marriage, the job, the reputation — all of it goes with one upload.
What they leave behind
- The video — live on Evan's own Facebook page, shot on his own handset.
- Louis's body — Karen's assistant (Aaron Burns) died mid-ordeal after they hid his inhaler; they turned the corpse into one of Karen's sculptures.
- A staged motive — texts sent from both men's phones to suggest Evan discovered an affair between Louis and Karen and killed him for it.
- The house — Karen's artwork destroyed, Evan's architectural drawings ruined, his vinyl collection smashed.
- Monkey — the family dog, who leaves with them.
Karen and the children arrive home to the wreckage.
Is there another ending?
Yes, and it's on the disc. In the alternate version, Evan uses the tracking device on Monkey's collar to find the pair at their next target's house. He knocks. A voice on the other side asks who's there — the same joke the film opened with, running the other way.
How the film did
Not well. Knock Knock took $6.3m against a $10m budget and sits at 37% on Rotten Tomatoes from 76 reviews, with a Metacritic score of 53.
For the record: Evan's own defence, shouted from the hole, is that the two women turned up at his door like free pizza.
Roth liked the line enough that it made the headline of his October 2015 Fangoria interview.