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A single mother finds that things in her family's life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan (screenplay)
Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan | See full cast and crew »
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Official Sites: Official site | Official site [Japan]Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 11 September 2015 (USA) See more »
Also Known As: Untitled Blumhouse Horror 1 See more »
Filming Locations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA See more »
Storyline
A single mother finds that things in her family's life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.Watch This Movie
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The Visit is mind-blowing for all the wrong reasons.
2 September 2015 | by alex wolfman (United States) – See all my reviews
At two different screenings, I had two good conversations with a good guy about the strangeness of M. Night Shyamalan's career. His first mainstream films Sixth Sense and Unbreakable really both dealt with mental issues and powers in a powerful way. We also can't forgot the famous Newsweek magazine proclaiming Shyamalan as "The Next Spielberg" which now just looks foolish. With Signs coming in 2002 from him and The Village in 2004, both reached a level of strangeness that I wasn't fully into and this wasn't on the same as level Sixth Sense or Unbreakable surely. Still I support these movies more than most people. It's really his films Lady in the Water in 2006 or The Happening in 2008 where I got off the Shyamalan train. Both suffer from using stars like Bryce Dallas Howard and Mark Wahlberg improperly and I still say The Happening has one of the worst twists ever. It's just hard to believe a guy can create some of the most interesting films around and also some of the biggest disasters. His new film The Visit is mind-blowing for all the wrong reasons.
A middle age mother (Kathryn Hahn) has a falling out with her parents with no contact with them and after she has two kids of her own, she decides to send Rebecca (Olivia De Jonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) to finally meet their grandparents for the first time. Once they get there, these are not the grandparents we expected.
The point Shyamalan is really trying to make is that going to your grandparents house is not usually an exciting experience. Rebecca is an inspiring filmmaker who brings the nicest cameras to document her experience which just sounds like the dullest film you could put together. The film wants to evoke some humor by Tyler who is really the typical mischievous little brother character and he's also an inspiring rapper. Acting by both of them is surely not an issue but still nothing special nor do they make their characters likable. The writing has humor in it which really makes you question the direction to the film because it's not at all marketed as a horror comedy. Even though it is marketed as a horror film, it does not have enough killers or a lot of horror elements. The movie just seems lost on direction and it's off-putting as to it's tone through every act.
The grandparents are the main asset to the plot but they are also the biggest downfall. Again, the acting by Deanna Dungan as Doris Jamison and Peter McRobbie as John Jamison are not an issue but the script is a problem. There is a scene with some really bad nudity and my friend said sitting next to me "That wasn't eye candy." They are basically old people who don't do a lot of anything and for some reason the idea of pooping (yes) is a plot point to them which just falls back to the bad direction. Once you get to the twist which is really uninteresting and pretty basic, many plot holes comes into place. It's never good when you have so many questions after a film like this one.
For a story using found footage and using pretty much one setting, location should be somewhat important you would think. It's an old house and the characters only venture out into town rarely. These kids must be so bored in this house! By what the twist is though, so much more could be done with the characters outside of the house. This twist is made to have somewhat of an investigation type plot and could introduce more characters which is another thing it's needs but when you only have a budget of five million, money has to play a factor somehow.
Even with The Visit being a screening, the audience I sat with has some strong reactions to how tiresome this movie was. Guys beyond me were bashing the movie right from the beginning. My friend whispered "We are not even an hour into this" and "This really needs to be over." People two rows in front of us picked up the twist very early on and some people left early. Sure, this wasn't a well-behaved audience but they all gave an accurate reaction to this movie. We were all pretty much done with this very early into it.
M. Night Shyamalan has now hit a bottom that I thought he had already reached. The Visit has really some nice ideas and has the plot to be scary but the results are not there and the movie is ludicrous. With that small budget, The Visit is surely going to make back it's money but this should be on the list of the worst films of the year. Actually it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is surely the worst for Shyamalan to date. It is just basically the worst at everything.
The Visit is mind-blowing for all the wrong reasons.
2 September 2015 | by alex wolfman (United States) – See all my reviews
At two different screenings, I had two good conversations with a good guy about the strangeness of M. Night Shyamalan's career. His first mainstream films Sixth Sense and Unbreakable really both dealt with mental issues and powers in a powerful way. We also can't forgot the famous Newsweek magazine proclaiming Shyamalan as "The Next Spielberg" which now just looks foolish. With Signs coming in 2002 from him and The Village in 2004, both reached a level of strangeness that I wasn't fully into and this wasn't on the same as level Sixth Sense or Unbreakable surely. Still I support these movies more than most people. It's really his films Lady in the Water in 2006 or The Happening in 2008 where I got off the Shyamalan train. Both suffer from using stars like Bryce Dallas Howard and Mark Wahlberg improperly and I still say The Happening has one of the worst twists ever. It's just hard to believe a guy can create some of the most interesting films around and also some of the biggest disasters. His new film The Visit is mind-blowing for all the wrong reasons.
A middle age mother (Kathryn Hahn) has a falling out with her parents with no contact with them and after she has two kids of her own, she decides to send Rebecca (Olivia De Jonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) to finally meet their grandparents for the first time. Once they get there, these are not the grandparents we expected.
The point Shyamalan is really trying to make is that going to your grandparents house is not usually an exciting experience. Rebecca is an inspiring filmmaker who brings the nicest cameras to document her experience which just sounds like the dullest film you could put together. The film wants to evoke some humor by Tyler who is really the typical mischievous little brother character and he's also an inspiring rapper. Acting by both of them is surely not an issue but still nothing special nor do they make their characters likable. The writing has humor in it which really makes you question the direction to the film because it's not at all marketed as a horror comedy. Even though it is marketed as a horror film, it does not have enough killers or a lot of horror elements. The movie just seems lost on direction and it's off-putting as to it's tone through every act.
The grandparents are the main asset to the plot but they are also the biggest downfall. Again, the acting by Deanna Dungan as Doris Jamison and Peter McRobbie as John Jamison are not an issue but the script is a problem. There is a scene with some really bad nudity and my friend said sitting next to me "That wasn't eye candy." They are basically old people who don't do a lot of anything and for some reason the idea of pooping (yes) is a plot point to them which just falls back to the bad direction. Once you get to the twist which is really uninteresting and pretty basic, many plot holes comes into place. It's never good when you have so many questions after a film like this one.
For a story using found footage and using pretty much one setting, location should be somewhat important you would think. It's an old house and the characters only venture out into town rarely. These kids must be so bored in this house! By what the twist is though, so much more could be done with the characters outside of the house. This twist is made to have somewhat of an investigation type plot and could introduce more characters which is another thing it's needs but when you only have a budget of five million, money has to play a factor somehow.
Even with The Visit being a screening, the audience I sat with has some strong reactions to how tiresome this movie was. Guys beyond me were bashing the movie right from the beginning. My friend whispered "We are not even an hour into this" and "This really needs to be over." People two rows in front of us picked up the twist very early on and some people left early. Sure, this wasn't a well-behaved audience but they all gave an accurate reaction to this movie. We were all pretty much done with this very early into it.
M. Night Shyamalan has now hit a bottom that I thought he had already reached. The Visit has really some nice ideas and has the plot to be scary but the results are not there and the movie is ludicrous. With that small budget, The Visit is surely going to make back it's money but this should be on the list of the worst films of the year. Actually it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is surely the worst for Shyamalan to date. It is just basically the worst at everything.
