Review of The Visit (2015) by Gentm2015 — 16 Dec 2015

The Visit is a 2015 found footage horror/comedy film written,produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.The film stars Olivia DeJonge,Ed Oxenbould,Deanna Dunagan,Peter McRobbie and Kathryn Hahn.

This movies is about two little kids named Becca and Tyler that head deep into Pennsylvania farm country to meet their maternal grandparents for the first time.They do this so that they can give her mother some time alone with her new boyfriend Miguel so that she can be happy.Everything seems to go well up until the two kids notice their grandparents increasingly strange behaviors day by day and they get more and more concerned as to why these things are happening and what is the meaning behind it all.

The Visit is a return to form for writer/director M. Night Shyamalan as he has done some not-so-good movies recently.In this one though,he decides to do something different and with a small budget he tackles on found footage movies.

This movie is funny,surprisingly,and interesting to a point.The acting is really good in it especially by the two kid actors,Ed Oxenbould who brings the comedy in the movie and makes the experience better,Olivia DeJonge who is the one filming this all and the movie does give a good enough reason as to why she is doing so.Olivia did bring some of the more heartfelt scenes to life and she did it perfectly.

One of the main problems with this movie is that it mixes comedy and horror way to much that at a point you can't even tell if they're joking or being serious anymore cause it sort of plays out as cheesy.The two older actors do a great job but their characters aren't at always at their best.Sometimes they just came out as annoying and/or dumb.

The ending is pretty good and brutal and it does have a little nice twist to it.Ultimately though it does feel like its dragging on for a bit too long but anyways this is a good and a welcome return to form for Shyamalan and I hope he does more movies like this and less big budget ones.