Overview
The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan’s 2015 found-footage thriller starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, and Peter McRobbie. The film follows two siblings sent to spend time with their estranged grandparents, only to discover that something is deeply wrong in the house.
The movie marked an important reset in Shyamalan’s career. It is smaller, nastier, funnier in a very uneasy way, and much more willing to let embarrassment sit right next to fear. The found-footage frame could have made it disposable. Instead, it gives the film a homemade intimacy that makes the weirdness land harder.
Quick Facts
- Release date: September 11, 2015
- Director / writer: M. Night Shyamalan
- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie
Story
At its core, The Visit is about children trying to make emotional sense of adults they barely know while the adults around them keep getting stranger, sadder, and more dangerous. The movie is part family wound, part horror comedy, part late-night panic attack.
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