Variety
M. Night Shyamalan returns to thriller filmmaking in the style of low-budget impresario Jason Blum with mixed results.
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The Visit
M. 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.
2015Rating: M, Mature themes, violence and coarse language94 minsUSA
HorrorThriller
- Director:
- M. Night Shyamalan ('After Earth', 'The Sixth Sense', 'Signs', 'Unbreakable')
- Writer:
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast:
- Olivia DeJongeEd OxenbouldPeter McRobbieKathryn HahnDeanna Dunagan
The Visit / Reviews
Time Out
A bizarre, conflicted mess, horrifying when it’s trying to be funny, oddly appealing when it turns the screws.
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The New York Times
Shyamalan has a fine eye and a nice, natural way with actors, and he has a talent for gently rap-rap-rapping on your nerves.
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The Guardian
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.
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Hollywood Reporter
Well cast and strong on setting. But the dull thudding that resounds isn’t part of its effective aural design...
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FilmInk
An 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.
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Empire Magazine
Shyamalan 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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