Knock at the Cab puts a gay uple apolyptic jeopardy, for better or worse | M Night Shyamalan | The Guardian

Contents:

• KNOCK AT THE CAB PUTS A GAY UPLE APOLYPTIC JEOPARDY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE
• M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S KNOCK AT THE CAB TRAILER HAS TIED UP GAYS — BUT NOT LIKE THAT
• BEN ALDRIDGE PRAIS 'PROGRSIVE' GAY RELATNSHIP KNOCK AT THE CAB (EXCLIVE)
• 'KNOCK AT THE CAB’ PUTS GAY DADS THROUGH HELL AT THE END OF THE WORLD
• MEET THE DREAMY GAY STARS OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S UPG HORROR MOVIE ‘A KNOCK AT THE CAB’
• 182 GAY COUPLE CAB STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE AND VIO CLIPS

KNOCK AT THE CAB PUTS A GAY UPLE APOLYPTIC JEOPARDY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE

But wh the three characters jeopardy a gay uple and their adopted dghter, the film morphs aga to somethg else, the horrors of realy forcg their way to the agile idyll of ’s a strange, at tim strangely not very good, movie (the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw lled all “eply ridiculo”), but one that’s strangely fascatg for reasons might not always be gnisant of, existg a polil space that feels dly advertent and majorly glacially paced crease visibily for gay characters at the multiplex (om ongog blk-and-you’ll-miss- tokenism recent blockbters like Thor: Love and Thunr and Jurassic World: Domn to hard-to-miss centre stagg box office bombs like Bros and Spoiler Alert) has still, predictably, e wh veats and limatns.

Box office ncerns, fear of alienatg the straights, tmp ’s somethg quietly monumental then about Shyamalan, a proud mercialist, turng his eye toward Pl Tremblay’s 2018 novel The Cab at the End of the World, an uneven yet eerie ltle nightmare that centr a gay uple and their adopted dghter. The uple assume, as many queer people would, that the vasn is a homophobic attack, that the zealots have crafted an elaborate scheme orr to punish them for their sexualy.

Regardls of tentn – and I genuely don’t believe that the film is g om a place of bigotry – there’s somethg almost il about the first ever glossy, wi-releasg stud thriller to centre gay characters hged on the ia that if they don’t rip apart their fay, God will punish all. We see the wav risg and ski fallg via news reports, each time they refe to do the unimagable, and the ntrast between two privileged gay men choosg their own safety and happs over the fate of the world be creasgly absurd, as if we have no choice but to root for their stctn. Along wh beg warned of “a lonely life” ahead or dangers over sexual health, a tired piece of fx ncern trotted out by homophob is that same-sex relatnships will ultimately lead to the end of the world, blogil differenc g a cimatn populatn (as if there would ever be enough gay people for that to be a ncern).

M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S KNOCK AT THE CAB TRAILER HAS TIED UP GAYS — BUT NOT LIKE THAT

A tweet over the weekend scrib a showg at which a woman “cheered when bad thgs happened to the gay characters and loudly sang hymns through the creds” film is a more overtly relig tale than the book (a scene tailg how the four strangers are fact the four horsemen of the apolypse is one of many clunky new addns) and also mak the gay fay more obvly rponsible for the thoands of liv that are lost while they make their choice. The book is some ways grimmer – the dghter gets killed accintally – but the film is more nclive: the stctn stops when the gay fay is no more (one dad is forced to shoot the other at the end). Cocintally, the film arrived jt days after an ter-breakg episo of HBO’s The Last of Us that broke off om the show’s ma narrative to tell of a gay uple also faced wh the end of the world (their story ends wh a double suici).

His gay characters are too thly veloped and far too muted to be seen as people we should re that much about let alone buy as a uple (notably spe the R ratg, we don’t even get a kiss om the pair).

The most proment piece of rmatn om their backstory is that one of them was vlently queerbashed a bar years earlier which led to the purchase of a gun, a red meat red flag that seems to smugly suggt that given a ltle ph, even those pearl-clutchg gay liberals will learn to appreciate a rightwg way of life.

BEN ALDRIDGE PRAIS 'PROGRSIVE' GAY RELATNSHIP KNOCK AT THE CAB (EXCLIVE)

As someone who has craved more gay characters genre films, ’s a thrill to see them ont and centre, tryg to survive a suatn of high-stak jeopardy rather than dyg of Aids or providg advice to a straight women (I did get a thartilly gleeful kick om seeg one of the dads efficiently beat up one of the trs). This uld be seen as eher good (lns happy to see a gay-led thriller) or bad (lns happy to see a gay-led thriller where the gays are tortured) be nice to see queer characters ontg a sexy urtroom thriller or a glossy slasher not que so punishgly related to sexualy? Night Shyamalan's latt film is a look to a disastro vatn taken by a gay uple and their dghter -- and uld be one of the bt movi of his at the Cab, which hs theaters on Febary 3, is the prolific and sometim ntroversial director's return to the big screen followg 2021's movie follows a gay uple, played by Glee alum Jonathan Groff and Out ver star Ben Aldridge, and their dghter as they are taken hostage by four armed strangers while on vatn at a b the woods.

One mute, you’re like, “Why are there no big-budget horror movi starrg gay people? Tremblay, is a horror film centered around two whe gays and their adopted dghter. Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge play the gay dads, while Dave Btista, Nikki Ama-Bird, Abby Qun, and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grt) are the apolypse-foreeg kidnappers who tie up the uple.

Look, I know a lot of gay guys want Dave Btista to tie them up — but not like that, Shyamalan. Knock at the Cab Has Tied Up Gay Guys — But Not Like That.

'KNOCK AT THE CAB’ PUTS GAY DADS THROUGH HELL AT THE END OF THE WORLD

The basic premise is that a gay uple and their adopted dghter are on a vatn a remote b Pennsylvania when four strangers e to the b and tell them that the world will end unls they ci to sacrifice one of their own. It gets repetive and there isn't enough velopment of the gay uple as characters to help the dience re about them or why they make the cisns they make.

I'll also mentn that even though I don't believe they are well-veloped characters, Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff, who play the gay uple, Eric and Andrew, have good chemistry and react appropriately this suatn. Four strangers approach a remote b occupied by a gay married uple wh a seven-year-old dghter. Is god the vil who, and why this particular fay, all the easily spotted red herrrgs are here, settg up the fay as a same sex fay where one of the hbands has an horrific homophobic attack, he tri to lead to a false assumptn, as for the endg, the expected twist never arrived.

In the horror film Knock at the Cab, a gay uple and their young dghter are vatng at a remote b when four strangers arrive and take them hostage. Night Shyamalan's upg movie Knock at the Cab has othg at the mouth wh excement for the upg gay apolypse at the Cabllows a gay uple - Andrew (Jonathan Groff) and Eric (Ben Aldridge) - and their dghter as they are taken ptive by four armed strangers while vatng a b the new trailer also giv full plot tails of the movie for the first time.

MEET THE DREAMY GAY STARS OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S UPG HORROR MOVIE ‘A KNOCK AT THE CAB’

But also looks like a tly great gay fay drama. From films starrg our favore gay actors, to movi about queer characters and potential mp classics, we've got you movi are you most lookg forward to 2023? This movie has all the gay ins you uld want: Jane Fonda, Ra Morena, Sally Field, and lba legend Lily Toml star as a group of iends who plete a lifelong goal by travelg to the Super Bowl to meet their favore player, quarterback Tom Brady.

182 GAY COUPLE CAB STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE AND VIO CLIPS

Watch: Ben Aldridge on the LGBT+ reprentatn Knock at the CabBen Aldridge says the portrayal of a gay relatnship new thriller Knock at the Cab is "nicely progrsive" how the character's sexualy is not the centre of their film, directed by M Night Shyamalan and adapted om a novel, follows a gay uple — played by Aldridge and Haton star Jonathan Groff — as they attempt to fend their dghter om home vars. Aldridge's character ially thks their motiv are homophobic, but soon be clear that the myster group believe they are on a csa to stop the end of the more: Tom Hanks on whether he uld do Philalphia role nowThe star said that, while the characters' sexualy affects their view of the world and their experience of danger, isn't the centre of the Aldridge (left) plays a parent tryg to protect his child M Night Shyamalan thriller Knock at the Cab.

It plac a sgle-sex parent fay at the centre of the film, but Night treats them like the normal fay they should be treated like, " Aldridge told Yahoo Entertament add: "I thk adds a really tertg element to the film and there's tertg tail there, but isn't the cx of more: Keke Palmer prais reprentatn Lightyear"They jt happen to be this fay wh gay dads. ‘Surf Girls Hawai’i’ is the Real-Life ‘Blue Csh’ We’ve Waed 21 Years ForOffEnglishBased on Pl Tremblay’s 2018 novel The Cab at the End of the World, Knock at the Cab ncerns the untry-home vasn of gay uple Andrew (Ben Aldridge) and Eric (Jonathan Groff).

Leonard reveals that he and the other three—Sabra (Nikki Ama-Bird), Adriane (Abby Qun), and Redmond (Rupert Grt)—all experienced visns that make them certa of the impendg doom and the terfay murr that mt occur to stave than you n say “QAnon, ” Andrew lls this for what very well seems to be: a homophobic mass ln.

“We don’t have one homophobic bone our bodi, ” claims Sabra, a nurse who straddl the le between enactg enough force to ensure Andrew and Eric subm and then tendg to the wounds that she creat. What if the ntuatn of humany really did pend on the stctn of this fay, and oh look, jt happens to be a fay which the parents are gay men? Knock is the rare example of a genre movie featurg gay characters as s prcipal leads, and punish them wh an agonizg choice that will rip their fay apart, permanently alterg their llective inty.

That is hardly a cince, and ’s so morally slimy that ma me wish the villas (and by extensn, movie) were jt straightforwardly homophobic—unabashed bigotry as an antidote to the hand-wrgg pretensn of the movement to supprs LGBTQ+ people orr to “save” children.