M. Night Shyamalan has not shied away from the intersection of faith and rationality. From Cole’s ability to see the dead in The Sixth Sense to Father Graham’s realization of the prophetic in Signs to the weight of mortality crashing down on the beachgoers in Old, Shyamalan’s brand of horror/thriller regularly dwells in the space where its characters are faced with the inexplicable becoming their reality and must choose how to deal with it. In his latest, Knock at the Cabin, Shyamalan makes the entire movie about the choice to accept the unbelievable when the unbelievable becomes the unavoidable.

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