DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

matthewaasen The visit was scarier than the reviews suggested. It was actually shocking how creepy some of the parts of the film were.

ronaldomessirroney This movie is so poorly acted, poorly written, and unintentionally funny, that you'd almost think that this is an M. Night Shyamalan film. Every time the movie tries to be scary, it is funny. And every time the movie tries to be funny, it is cringey. It absolutely blows my mind that people actually like this movie. The twist was the same twist from a Spongebob episode from over a decade ago. Though the twist is actually alright, I just couldn't take it seriously after my brain made that connection. Absolute cancer.

NateWatchesCoolMovies I've seen M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit several times now and it gets funnier with every viewing. Funny in a good way, and scary too as it's a great little fright flick, but there's just something about demented old people who aren't right in the head that shunts the deranged part of my funny bone into overdrive (I must've subconsciously picked that up from David Lynch). It's first and foremost a dark comedy for me, and seems like it wants to be that anyways when you consider how it's shot, edited and lit, but the horror just happens naturally through this very weird set of circumstances, which I found neat. There's also an unexpected emotional gravitas running through the plot line, which is impressive when you consider how short and fast paced the film is and that it actually had time to throw some real drama in there. In true Hansel and Gretel allegorical form, a brother (Ed Oxenbould, quite irritating and the only weak link in the cast, especially when he 'raps') and sister (Olivia DeJonge, radiating talent both beyond her years and what her character is written as, hope to see more of her) head out into the sticks to visit the grandparents they've never met, whilst their single mother (Kathryn Hahn) heads off on a cruise with her beau to be. The kids are at first quite taken with their Nana (Deanna Dunegan) and Pop Pop (Daredevil's Peter McRobbie), but, as any trailer will show, gradually they start to act in a way that would put the word strange in the understatement zone. There's something terminally off with these two sweet old codgers, as the kids discover hour by hour of their visit, from Pop Pop hoarding up soiled diapers in the shed to Nana scuttling about the house naked at night like a geriatric Emily Rose. Are they possessed? Dementia ridden? High on bath salts? It's best you figure out the nasty little surprises of Shyamalan's narrative for yourself, and squirm at every delicious little bit of unpleasantness along the way. McRobbie and Dunegan offer a staggering number of both bone chilling and riotously funny moments in two performances that they should be proud of, for both scaring our socks off and providing endless off colour comedic moments. Now as for the found footage camera aspect, that's usually something I hate these days, but given how well it works with the subject matter and tone here, plus how non intrusive it is, I can't bash it too much. This is a neat little departure for Shyamalan, whose usual somber, bleak and airily atmospheric tone definitely needed a little shaking up, and what better new avenue to explore than darkly comic, hyperactive horror?

Floated2 The Visit was another highly anticipated film from winning director M. Night Shyamalan. Over the course of his career, it has been well noted that his overall films have been criticized and not has great as his earlier films. The Visit is a more unknown and low budget found footage film and it is decent, although predictable. The film is quite short in running time which is enough for this time of genre. We understand and know there will be a twist in the end, and twist did elevate the film somewhat but could also have been done in a better and more revealing manner. The lead grandchildren were quite annoying but in today's age, this is how some kids act so the criticize from them is warranted. Once the film is seen there isn't much for a rewatch, as the Visit does offer some scares towards the end but overall could have been better.