The Visit provides horror fans with a satisfying blend of thrills and laughs -- and also signals a welcome return to form for writer-director M. With all its terror, "The Visit" is an extremely funny film. Advertisement There are too many horror cliches to even list ("gotcha" scares, dark basements, frightened children, mysterious sounds at night, no cellphone reception), but the main cliche is that it is a "found footage" film, a style already wrung dry.
Not a Hollywood blockbuster by any means, but I wouldn't be surprised if many would enjoy it. EmansMovieReviews.com Review: A Long Night as Tony Kushner Revisits 'The Visit' This murky and tedious reworking of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark fable of love and lucre is illuminated by Lesley Manville's. The Visit review - Tony Kushner's plodding revenge epic falls flat.
After several perplexing misfires, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has scaled back, gone for a lower budget and a lighter tone, and emerged with his most effective movie in over a decade. THE VISIT begins interestingly; the potentially creepy moments can be easily explained away and even laughed off, but the director still manages to create a subtle, creeping dread that steadily builds. With Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa, Romolo Valli. An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge. Night Shyamalan and starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, and Kathryn Hahn.
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Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage. Well, it's not in the same league as The Sixth Sense, but director M. Night Shyamalan ends a long dry spell with The Visit.
It's a blend of mirth and. Initially, it is not Shyamalan at full terrible tilt. It was directed by Bernhard Wicki and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Julien Derode, with the film's stars, Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, as co-producers.