{"id":30311,"date":"2019-02-03T06:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30311"},"modified":"2019-02-03T06:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:28:58","slug":"knock-knock-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/03\/knock-knock-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock Knock (2018) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/knocknock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/knocknock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/knocknock.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/knocknock-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/knocknock-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201cSocial Horror\u201d Shorts Block<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kennikki Jones-Jones\u2019s short horror drama is a film with a premise that rang a bit too close to home for yours truly. Growing up in the Bronx, there are certain kind of boundaries and rules people are expected to follow. Often times children can be heard in the distance crying or being disciplined by their parents and it\u2019s kind of a mutual agreement among many to ignore it unless it gets all too severe. And even then, people tend to turn a blind eye.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnock Knock\u201d deals with almost the same idea and the concept of complicity and the cycle of abuse. Sinia is a local neighborhood woman who lives alone and spends a lot of her time on her porch doing things for children including bonding with them while doing their hair. She has an especially unique relationship with the family who lives the next door from her. Despite their inherently vicious upbringing with a mother who insists in screaming every command, she makes the children\u2019s lives a bit better by communicating with them through knocks on their wall, and making them home cooked meals. One night as she hears an especially vicious fight between their mom with them, things spiral out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Although, director Kennikki Jones-Jones\u2019 short might be up for interpretation by most viewers, \u201cKnock Knock\u201d felt like an important message about abusive home lives and how doing nothing can often be as bad as the actual abuse in some instances. Star Shellita Boxie is absolutely fantastic in the role, and she brings to life this unusual situation where she\u2019s the spectator and the victim and forced to endure so much in such a little time, much like the children she watches over. I can\u2019t wait to see what director Kennikki Jones-Jones has set for audiences next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSocial Horror\u201d Shorts Block Kennikki Jones-Jones\u2019s short horror drama is a film with a premise that rang a bit too close to home for yours truly. Growing up in the Bronx, there are certain kind of boundaries and rules people are expected to follow. Often times children can be heard in the distance crying or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[240,302,501,703,938,1087],"class_list":["post-30311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30313,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions\/30313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}