The Visit
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A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.
What critics thought
Shyamalan's found-footage horror-comedy divided critics sharply: admirers saw it as a genuine return to form — lean, humanistic, and effectively creepy — while detractors found it neither scary nor funny, just an awkward muddle of tones that couldn't decide what kind of film it wanted to be. The Hansel and Gretel comparison came up repeatedly, and even the more positive reviews tended to be measured rather than enthusiastic.
“It is richly humanistic, filled with individually sketched characters that often sparkle with wit and surprising decency.”
Scott Mendelson·Forbes
“an amusingly-grim fairy tale”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
“dull, derivative and flatly unscary.”
Mike McCahill·The Guardian
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorM. Night Shyamalan
StarringOlivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn
The Visit
A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.
What critics thought
Shyamalan's found-footage horror-comedy divided critics sharply: admirers saw it as a genuine return to form — lean, humanistic, and effectively creepy — while detractors found it neither scary nor funny, just an awkward muddle of tones that couldn't decide what kind of film it wanted to be. The Hansel and Gretel comparison came up repeatedly, and even the more positive reviews tended to be measured rather than enthusiastic.
“It is richly humanistic, filled with individually sketched characters that often sparkle with wit and surprising decency.”
Scott Mendelson·Forbes
“an amusingly-grim fairy tale”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
“dull, derivative and flatly unscary.”
Mike McCahill·The Guardian
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorM. Night Shyamalan
StarringOlivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn
Rent/Purchase