M. Night Shyamalan's Bad Grandma: His First 'Fresh' Movie Since Signs (?)

[Joe Molotov]

The Tomatometer is currently holding at 64% after 99 reviews, making it technically a good movie, for now. Stay tuned to this thread for important updates!

But while the production values are simple, the script is sneakily complex. Like the best horror merchants, Shyamalan exploits our secret fears – in this case, of old age, ill health and dementia.

With The Visit, a pastoral horror comedy and found-footage, family dysfunction, fairy tale, film-within-a-film fiesta, a Shyamalan rebound happens. It’s a genuinely fun affair – let’s not write it off as a cult classic just yet – with the smirking air of a confidant and mischievous filmmaker.

Give Shyamalan this: He’s not a cynic, a nihilist, or a cynical nihilist — i.e., a filmmaker who leaves his monsters alive for no reason other than the hope of sequel money. The Visit has a rounded structure and a moral befitting a fairy tale. It’s an obvious movie, but a very decent one.

And it’s a movie where an adult diaper dripping with human shit has a key moment to play in the story. That alone makes The Visit worth seeing, but thankfully the film has a lot more to offer than just feces.

He's back! It's the twist you never saw coming!

[Mr. Gundam]

Was curious about the twist, but not enough to see it. Thank you Wikipedia.

[Kara]

He’s not a cynic, a nihilist, or a cynical nihilist

 

[demi]

Longer version of wikipedia page (more details)

http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2015Spoilers/Visit.html

Movie sounds hilarious tbh. Def gonna try to watch it once.

[Phoenix Dark]

The concept looked interesting in the trailer...but making it another found footage horror film kills any interest I have.

[Mr. Gundam]

Was curious about the twist, but not enough to see it. Thank you Wikipedia.

I kind of feel this way about The Gift with the Arrested Development dude, but I still haven't given up on the idea of watching that one.

Did the same thing with that one.

[brob]

Longer version of wikipedia page (more details)

http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2015Spoilers/Visit.html

Movie sounds hilarious tbh. Def gonna try to watch it once.

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As the credits roll, we see Becca brushing her hair while looking at herself in the mirror while Tyler performs a rap to camera about the events that took place over those five days, including getting a used adult diaper shoved in his face and how it took two bars of soap to feel clean again. He says it did not taste like chicken.

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[Tasty]

Was curious about the twist, but not enough to see it. Thank you Wikipedia.

I kind of feel this way about The Gift with the Arrested Development dude, but I still haven't given up on the idea of watching that one.

It's an OK movie but less of a thriller than I thought it'd be/the trailers implied.

[Joe Molotov]

OMG this movie, brehs, this movie. It did not disappoint, in fact I it exceeded all my expectations (which were admittedly pretty low) and also fuck Signs, this is Shyamalan's 3rd best movie. Maybe it was because I had no expectations and I was seeing it with a highly receptive crowd, but I had a smile on my face for almost the entire movie. The theater was packed with squealy teenagers, which normally I would not consider a positive, but for this movie it was. Having a full house with everyone shrieking on cue was great. The distinguished black fellow group behind us was yelling "Don't go in there!" every time they went in there, and it was great too. Non-Mad Max MOTY.

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When the kid got the poop diaper shoved in his face, I fucking lost it.

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Also there was a scene were the old people were making them play Yahtzee, and the grandpa was like "That's strategy, he's using a Milton Bradley approved strategy!" and the girl was like "Milton Bradley doesn't make Yahtzee anymore, Hasbro does." and the old man jumps to his feet and screams "THAT'S A LIE!" I also lost it then. 

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