Are Grandma and Grandpa really all that scary? Shyamalan wants you to think so.
Horror film directors have successfully villified animals, children and dolls—are the elderly next?
Sixth Sense writer/director M. Night Shyamalan is hoping so with his latest film, The Visit. The movie follows two kids as they discover that their grandparents are involved with something really, really, really sinister. If the premise seems a little on the silly side, you're right: The Visit is being branded as a horror comedy film.
Shyamalan has seen a string of cinematic failures following his hit 1999 film The Sixth Sense and 2002's Signs—2004's The Village, 2006's Lady in the Water, 2008's The Happening, 2010's The Last Airbender, and 2013's After Earth were all flops, at least, critically speaking.
Will The Visit turn his reputation around as a horror director/writer? Maybe. But that might come at the expense of the reputation of granny and pop-pop.
Check out the trailer below.
The Visit is in theaters September 11.
