The Visit - M. Night Shyamalan's latest

[MIKA27]

The Visit: the most shocking M. Night Shyamalan twist is a good movie

A decade ago it was impossible to discuss supernatural thrillers without invoking the name of M. Night Shyamalan. After exploding into the popular consciousness with The Sixth Sense, the writer-director staked his claim with carefully crafted follow-ups like Signs and Unbreakable, eventually leading Newsweek to dub him “The Next Spielberg.” But Shyamalan faltered soon thereafter, and by the time his sci-fi adaptation After Earth rolled around two years ago, his name was practically being hidden in studio marketing materials.

With irrelevancy lurking in the shadows, like one of his fictional boogeymen, the director needed to save his career. So Shyamalan switched things up — trying his hand at television with the quirky Wayward Pines, and leaving Hollywood behind altogether for his new movie The Visit. As the filmmaker told us in July, The Visit was a completely self-funded affair, with Shyamalan putting up the money so he could make a smaller film in relative secrecy without the interference of studios or outside influences. The result is the best snapshot we have of Shyamalan the filmmaker as he stands today.

Judging from the bonkers mix of horror and comedy that is The Visit, he may have gone totally insane — and that’s a wonderful thing.

The Visit is actually funny, and not in a passing joke kind of way. It’s wild and outrageous, stacking laughs and scares atop one another in a giant Jenga of oddball entertainment. Contrasted with the overthought restraint of Shyamalan’s earlier work, The Visit is the Wild West; the kind of movie that uses a character’s unnerving penchant for skulking around nude as both a running joke and surprise scare, and that takes another’s obsessive tendencies and pays them off with a scatalogical gag that had me laughing and cringing in equal measure. It doesn’t always work — the mix is so bizarre that some jokes simply fail to land — but there’s a giddy energy that courses through the movie from beginning to end.

The Visit is set for release Friday 11th September

[jsummers157]

Looking forward to checking this one out. Hoping this puts Night back on the right track.

[Mr.T]

Looking forward to this. Looks fun. I watched Wayward Pines by him and I really enjoyed it...

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[Fosgate]

Looks awesome! http://nerdist.com/review-shyamalans-the-visit-is-the-directors-best-film-in-years/

[MIKA27]

I watched this movie last night and I really enjoyed it.

In saying this, I wouldn't say it is brilliant or anything truly great, but it was really entertaining, a little different to the norm and not as intense as other M. Night Shyamalan's works. Oh, without spoiling anything, the twist at the end is brilliant IMO.

Highly recommend you watch it.