Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Olivia DeJongeRebecca Jamison
- Ed OxenbouldTyler Jamison
- Deanna DunaganNana
- Peter McRobbiePop Pop
- Kathryn HahnLoretta Jamison
- Celia Keenan-BolgerStacey
- Samuel StricklenConductor
- Patch DarraghDr. Sam
- Jorge CordovaMiguel
- Steve AnnanMan on the Street
Recommendations
- 90
Village Voice
The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan's witty, crowd-jolting spook-house of an eleventh feature, is its writer-director's best movie since the tail-end of the last Clinton era. And it's the best studio horror flick in recent years, combining the but-what's-in-those-shadows? immersion of The Conjuring, James Wan's basement-wandering simulator, with the crack scripting and meta-cinematic surprises of Shyamalan's best early films. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Refreshingly, this isn’t so much a found-footage movie – although it was backed by "Paranormal Activity" overseers Blumhouse Productions – as it is a completed faux documentary, complete with onscreen titles and a cripplingly hilarious end-credits sequence featuring Tyler being Tyler. - 60
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Unlike in some of his other recent films, Shyamalan never overreaches this time. Instead, he keeps things simple and focuses on the story at hand. - 50
Screen Daily
A marketable slice of hit-and-miss mischief that doesn’t suggest a career rebirth so much as a larky side project that will yield more in the way of nervous laughter than quickened pulses. - 50
Movie Nation
A faintly-creepy, lightly amusing horror comedy that promises a surprise twist and a hint of heart. - 40
Variety
Shyamalan has long been criticized for serving up borderline (or downright) silly premises with a straight face and overtly pretentious atmosphere, but he basically abandons that approach here in favor of a looser, more playful dynamic between his fresh-faced leads. - 40
TheWrap
Shyamalan has had some difficulties as a director of late, and it’s understandable to hope that by placing him back in the realm of lower budgets and more manageable expectations he could impress us yet again; that turns out not to be the case this time. - 40
Time Out
A bizarre, conflicted mess, horrifying when it’s trying to be funny, oddly appealing when it turns the screws.
