• Director(s)

    Joonas Pajunen, Max Seeck

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Horror

  • Approx. running minutes

    89m

  • Cast

    Inka Kallen, Saana Koivisto, Pekka Strang, Janina Berman

Film

The Knocking

strong supernatural threat, violence, language

THE KNOCKING is a Finnish horror in which three siblings return to the house where their parents were murdered. …

THE KNOCKING is a Finnish horror in which three siblings return to the house where their parents were murdered.

violence
Characters are hit across the skull with an axe resulting in blood spurts and sight of bloody wounds. There are frequent verbal references to murder.
threat and horror
Sequences include strong sustained supernatural threat and unsettling psychological horror throughout. A woman is possessed by a demonic force and her hand begins to rot and become covered in scabs. A child is found terrified and locked in a cage but is unable to remember how she got there.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') as well as milder terms such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'piss', 'damn', 'God' and 'hell'. Song lyrics contain the racial term 'n***a'.
additional issues
References are made to a teenage girl's abortion. A man is emotionally abusive and controlling to his wife and children. Scenes include emotional upset from bereavement and references to adultery.

  • Director(s)

    Joonas Pajunen, Max Seeck

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Horror

  • Approx. running minutes

    89m

  • Cast

    Inka Kallen, Saana Koivisto, Pekka Strang, Janina Berman

strong supernatural threat, violence, language
Classified Date:
03/01/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Blue Finch Film Releasing
violence
Characters are hit across the skull with an axe resulting in blood spurts and sight of bloody wounds. There are frequent verbal references to murder.
threat and horror
Sequences include strong sustained supernatural threat and unsettling psychological horror throughout. A woman is possessed by a demonic force and her hand begins to rot and become covered in scabs. A child is found terrified and locked in a cage but is unable to remember how she got there.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') as well as milder terms such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'piss', 'damn', 'God' and 'hell'. Song lyrics contain the racial term 'n***a'.
additional issues
References are made to a teenage girl's abortion. A man is emotionally abusive and controlling to his wife and children. Scenes include emotional upset from bereavement and references to adultery.

  • Classified date

    03/01/2023

  • Language

    Finnish