
Variety
M. Night Shyamalan returns to thriller filmmaking in the style of low-budget impresario Jason Blum with mixed results.
Full reviewM. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) found-footage horror. A young brother and sister stay with their grandparents, only for things to turn horrific when Grandma demonstrates increasingly disturbing behaviour. Co-stars Kathryn Hahn (Tomorrowland) as the kids’ mother.
M. Night Shyamalan returns to thriller filmmaking in the style of low-budget impresario Jason Blum with mixed results.
Full reviewA bizarre, conflicted mess, horrifying when it’s trying to be funny, oddly appealing when it turns the screws.
Full reviewShyamalan has a fine eye and a nice, natural way with actors, and he has a talent for gently rap-rap-rapping on your nerves.
Full reviewThis tardy rehash of fairytale tropes finds sometime genre innovator M Night Shyamalan clinging in abject desperation to the found-footage movement’s careworn coattails.
Full reviewWell cast and strong on setting. But the dull thudding that resounds isn’t part of its effective aural design...
Full reviewAn utterly enjoyable and oddly affecting experience that's not only Shyamalan's best film in years but also a cracking thriller in its own right.
Full reviewShyamalan finds freshness in familiar horror tropes. After some big budget misfires, it's great to see him go back to his smaller, scarier roots.
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