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Critics' ratings

Who's There received mostly negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 36% based on 69 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. Wrapping up the reviews, the site states, "Who's There cleverly uses a satirical approach to portraying the horror of torture, but lacks effective to overcome his repetitive story or misguided narrative tone.”[12] The film has a Metacritic score of 55 out of 100; The rating is based on data from 20 reviewers and is classified as "mixed or average".[13]

Dread Central, a horror news, interview and review site, awarded it four out of five, stating, "We have a home invasion film for the social media generation (yes, it has social media) which should make you think twice before offering warmth and shelter to a stranger on a dark and stormy night.”[14]

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On April 4, 2014, Keanu Reeves was added to the cast to play Evan Webber, a happily married family man and architect. The film was filmed in Santiago de Chile. Eli Roth stated that filming in Chile is easier than in the US. Chilean actress Ignacia Allamand also joined the film.

Plot

Architect and happy family man Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) is left alone at home with his dog, Monkey, for the weekend due to work and needing treatment for a shoulder injury. His wife and kids have a planned trip to the beach. His wife Karen, a successful artist, leaves her assistant Lewis in charge of her sculpture to be transferred to an art gallery.

Two women, Genesis (Lorenza Izzo) and Belle (Ana De Armas), knock on Evan's door. He opens the door and they say they are looking for the address of the party. Since they have no means of communication, Evan allows them to use the Internet. The girls feel right at home and Evan plays some of his old vinyl records from his days as a DJ. They then disappear into the bathroom as their driver arrives. Evan tries to convince them to leave, but when they start to force themselves on him, he gives in and has a threesome with them.

After having sex, Evan finds out that his wife's sculpture was trashed by the girls. When Evan threatens to call the police, the girls reveal that they are underage. Vivian, Karen's friend, stops by to see if Evan needs help. Seeing Genesis, Vivian angrily leaves. When Evan threatens to report the break-in, they give up and agree to leave.

He then returns home, cleans up the mess, and tries to get back to his job. As Evan approaches the completion of his project, he hears a crushing noise. He finds a broken frame of his family and Genesis knocks him out with one of his wife's sculptures. Belle climbs on him, trying to wake him up, pretending to be a schoolgirl in his daughter's school uniform. Evan initially refuses, but the girls threaten to FaceTime his wife if he does not agree with their methods. Belle rapes him and Genesis records everything. However, Evan frees himself by knocking Belle down. He attacks Genesis, but is disarmed by Genesis and Belle, who then tie him to a chair with an electrical cord.

Lewis arrives to retrieve the sculpture and finds Evan, but before he can help him, he hears the girls smashing the wrecked sculpture. Lewis runs to stop them, but he has an asthma attack and realizes the girls took his inhaler. When Lewis tries to retrieve it, he slips on a piece of sculpture, hits his head in the fall, and dies. They turn Lewis's body into a red sculpture and dig a makeshift grave in the backyard for Evan. The girls also use Evan and Lewis' phones to send text messages and make it look like Evan discovered that Lewis was having an affair with his wife and Evan killed him because of it. They tie Evan up with a hose, then bury him in a hole, leaving only his head above the ground.

The girls then reveal that the entire ordeal was just a "game" since they never intended to kill Evan, nor are any of them underage; everything they did was part of an immoral hobby of seducing, torturing and destroying the families of married men with children. Genesis shows Evan a video she recorded earlier from his phone of him and Belle having sex. As Evan watches, she uploads the video to his Facebook profile. The girls go after another victim and take Monkey with them, leaving Evan to fend for himself. When Karen and the kids arrive, they find the house destroyed and Evan's son, Jake, says, "Dad had a party."

In an alternate ending, Evan takes revenge by finding the girls in another house, on whose door he knocks and the girls ask "Who's there?"