SummaryA brother and sister are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.
SummaryA brother and sister are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.
Intense, smart and beautiful in it's simplicity, "The Visit" is a grand return from M. Night Shyamalan and proves that he is a master of the thriller genre.
Creepy, funny, and a great comeback for M. Night. he should do the low budget horror movies. The Kids steal the show, the found footage makes sense and the grandma is creepy. I highly recommend this movie to people who are fans of horror movies.
Refreshingly, this isn’t so much a found-footage movie – although it was backed by "Paranormal Activity" overseers Blumhouse Productions – as it is a completed faux documentary, complete with onscreen titles and a cripplingly hilarious end-credits sequence featuring Tyler being Tyler.
If this was someone's first film, I'd be okay with the small signs of life that make this merely an annoying film instead of a completely dreadful one, but for this to be the latest work by a guy who made his first impression on the general public by sticking to his guns and refusing to compromise his voice… unthinkable.
Shyamalan has long been criticized for serving up borderline (or downright) silly premises with a straight face and overtly pretentious atmosphere, but he basically abandons that approach here in favor of a looser, more playful dynamic between his fresh-faced leads.
This tardy rehash of fairytale tropes finds sometime genre innovator M Night Shyamalan clinging in abject desperation to the found-footage movement’s careworn coattails.
I think it is a good blend between comedy and **** cast really did well,mainly Ed Oxenbould was amazing in this **** the movie is a blend don't look at it as either comedy or Horror.
Who'd have thought that the background score would be the actual hero. I love the entire look of it.
The Visit
M. Night Shyamalan, the writer and director's film is a joy to behold. Filmed through a documentary lens, Shyamalan's to-the-point direction is actually beneficial this time. Some would and does argue to those plot points that grows loud and cheesy which weighs down the film to ever soar perpetually. And yes, there are those moments in the film that comes easily and repetitively. But what Shyamalan does so brilliantly is that he frames it as the part of a "cinematic experience". There is a film within the film that is every now and then mentioned to keep the viewers alive and confident.
And mind you there is no one as confident as Shyamalan on convincing you to be confident yourself. Just watch the last act of Glass enfolding before your eyes. Any other filmmaker would flinch on taking away the heat from their own script by basically showcasing the "awkwardness" of a film shoot in the film. Somehow he frames that as a narrative now whether it works or not that's a different day, but it definitely is a bold and confident choice.
Now coming back to those textbook set pieces. There isn't actual ever a note that gives away the fact that he isn't aware of his viewers' expectations. He knows you are in a Shyamalan world. He built it. The reputation and the films. Hence, he frames it as an expected destination. You know that they are going to wait for the arrival of that know station. The Visit is that visit for me. And you know what, you know a film is working when you are so immersed in whatever images shown in front of us, that you forget where you're headed. And on that note it is also a wrong knock on the door.
Some parts boring, the **** was repetitive and dull, seemed like it was trying to be modern, the camera shouldn't be hd, that ruins the scares, but entertaining, and there was one scene that made me want to scream
This movie claims to be an original horror/comedy. First of all, it isn't original. There is nothing in this movie you haven't seen in countless other movies, unless you have never seen a found footage style movie that relies on jump scares. Second of all, the movie just isn't scary. Horror needs more than jump scares to be scary, and all the jump scares in this movie were dreadfully predictable. Third of all, is the movie funny? Depends. When I knew it was trying to make me laugh I only ended up cringing. I think I actually found the most humor in the parts that were supposed to be taken seriously. There is a decent twist in "The Visit" that I won't spoil because it is the only thing that saves the movie. I am waiting for the twist when M. Night makes a good movie post-Sixth Sense.