M. Night Shyamalan is one of those directors that it’s safe
to dislike, given his most recent output. I mean, sure, The Sixth Sense has one
of the most culturally-ingrained twist endings of all time and Unbreakable
continues to be a cult classic, but nothing he’s been attached to since even
comes close to that. Whether it’s the masterpiece of unintentional comedy that
is The Happening, the fan betraying mockery of The Last Airbender, the vanity
hack job of After Earth or even the mass of misguided ideas in Devil, Shyamalan
has turned from one of the most promising filmmakers in Hollywood into an utter
laughing stock. However, even with how horrendous the aforementioned films
could get, I still can’t help but feel sorry for the guy after all this time
and just hope that he can stage a comeback one of these days. So, when news of
this film hit and apparently audiences in the U.S. were starting to warm up to
him again, maybe there’s a chance that he has found a way to crawl out of the
shite-encrusted mire he’s dug himself into. This is The Visit.
