Failed Screenwriter’s Notebook

Knock, Knock… (R)

Disturbed ventriloquist Adrian Winter (Edward Norton) and his pregnant wife Katharine (Winona Ryder) spend their first Halloween together, renovating a run-down (and supposedly haunted) beach house.

Unexplained happenings escalate and they have terrifying glimpses of what appears to be a masked child, scurrying around the house. Soon Katharine is fearing for her life… and the life of her unborn child!

Is Adrian insane and behind the disturbances himself? Or could Adrian’s dummy ‘Woodstock’ actually be alive and suffering from a maniacal form of sibling rivalry?

Possible dialogue:

Katharine: “No darling, it couldn’t have been Woodstock. It was you… You put kitty litter in the humus!”