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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/knock-at-the-cabin-review-m-night-shyamalans-anxious-masterpiece-is-best-in-decades"><em>Knock at the Cabin</em></a><em> </em>finds <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/m-night-shyamalans-servant-final-season-is-still-creepy-tv-excellence">M. Night Shyamalan</a> again choosing a project by plucking from his library of disturbing reads. This time, he adapted Paul Tremblay’s 2018 sci-fi horror novel <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/30/17444584/paul-tremblay-the-cabin-at-the-end-of-the-world-horror-book-review"><em>The Cabin at the End of the World</em></a>, a title only slightly less forgettable than that of the movie. And <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2021/07/old-movie-book-m-night-shyamalan-twist-sandcastle.html">much like <em>Old </em>before it</a>, Shyamalan’s take on the source material is a heavy deviation.</p>
<p>But considering how the novel ends in comparison to the film, Shyamalan should get Tremblay to start visiting his therapist ASAP. Because goddamn is that novel depressing—even more so than <em>Knock at the Cabin</em>, which at least suggests something of a happy ending.</p>
<p>(<strong>Warning: </strong>Spoilers for <em>Knock at the Cabin </em>and <em>The Cabin at the End of the World</em> below!)</p>
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Knock at the Cabinfinds M. Night Shyamalan again choosing a project by plucking from his library of disturbing reads. This time, he adapted Paul Tremblay’s 2018 sci-fi horror novel The Cabin at the End of the World, a title only slightly less forgettable than that of the movie. And much like Old before it, Shyamalan’s take on the source material is a heavy deviation.
But considering how the novel ends in comparison to the film, Shyamalan should get Tremblay to start visiting his therapist ASAP. Because goddamn is that novel depressing—even more so than Knock at the Cabin, which at least suggests something of a happy ending.
(Warning: Spoilers for Knock at the Cabin and The Cabin at the End of the World below!)
