Avatar: The Way of Water’s lengthy run at the US box office has ended thanks to Knock at the Door, and the conclusion of M Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller will undoubtedly have fans buzzing over the last weekend.
An infant girl and her parents are held hostage by four armed strangers while on vacation at a remote cabin in the new film based on Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World. The invaders then demand that the parents make the unimaginable decision to sacrifice a member of their family to end the end of the world.
But are the intruders telling the truth, and can the family take a chance when the world’s fate (possibly) hangs in the balance? The cabin becomes quite gloomy, but if you’ve read the novel, you know that Shyamalan could have made it more worse for the film version. (This partly explains why he gave it a name different from the book.)
So let’s examine the conclusion of Knock at the Cabin to answer any queries and show how the events in the original book unfold. There will be significant spoilers for both versions.
Knock at the Cabin Ending Explained
The four intruders’ commander Leonard (Dave Bautista) explains the horrible decision that Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge) must make once they have broken into the lodge. They will survive, but the world will perish, if they do not choose to sacrifice themselves or their daughter Wen (Kristin Cui).
Every time they refuse, one of the strangers will be killed and a “plague” will be released on humanity, which has an unknown effect. The first person to pass away is Redmond (Rupert Grint), and following his passing, news reports on the TV program say that a terrible earthquake has triggered a tsunami on the west coast of the USA.
One of the visions Leonard and his gang are said to have seen is evidence that the end of the world is near. Andrew, who was assaulted by Redmond in a pub years earlier, believes the gang has a “shared hallucination” and that Redmond led them to the cabin to attack Andrew again after learning they first chatted online.
Adriane (Abby Quinn) is sacrificed due to Andrew and Eric’s repeated refusals, and shortly after that, news headlines center on a sickness that kills youngsters. Eric adds that he experienced a vision of a man standing behind Leonard.
Andrew still thinks it’s all nonsense and that the group is timing their sacrifices to pre-recorded news bulletins. But, the vision is insufficient to convince the duo, and Andrew succeeds in escaping and obtaining a revolver he had hidden in their car outside.
As Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird) tries to stop him, he returns to the cabin and shoots her, but Leonard eventually manages to overpower Andrew and grab the pistol. Leonard turns on the TV and the most recent news story about planes inexplicably falling from the sky to demonstrate that they are correct.
Leonard claims he saw the news broadcast in his vision and appeared to know every word before the newsreader said it. Leonard argues that the world is approaching its end and that Eric and Andrew have only minutes to decide whether to preserve it. Before he kills himself, Leonard tells them this.
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— Knock At The Cabin (@KnockAtTheCabin) February 18, 2023
Although the sky begins to get gloomy and the situation seems quite ominous, Andrew is unconvinced. Eric explains why he believes the four intruders were a reimagining of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Guiding (Sabrina), Healing (Sabrina because she was a nurse), Healing (Redmond because he fought Andrew), and Nurturing (Adriane because she had a kid) (Leonard, because he led the whole thing).
In a flashback, Wen sees Andrew as a lawyer, and Eric begs Andrew to kill him to rescue the world and secure Wen’s future. Andrew kills Eric, and the decision causes the cabin and forest to burn down. After escaping, Andrew and Wen utilize Leonard’s automobile, stashed away in the woods, to travel to the next town.
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When they go to a diner, they watch TV and hear of miraculous events like the virus’s death rate slowing down and the tsunami waters beginning to recede. That seems to confirm that Eric’s sacrifice wasn’t in vain and succeeded in stopping the end of the world.
However, if you want to be pessimistic, perhaps it was all simply one big coincidence as there isn’t an explanation for anything.