The trajectory of writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s career has been one filled with just as many twists and turns as one of his films. Although The Sixth Sense established him as a bold new filmmaker back in 1999, the director’s tactics soon began to wear thin on audiences who grew tired of his focus on shocking endings and self-indulgence. Remember, this is the man who cast himself as a writer whose story would change the world in the 2006 pseudo-fairy tale Lady in the Water. Critical disasters like The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth followed, leading many to question whether the man who was once heralded as the next Alfred Hitchcock was gone forever. The Visit, his latest release, offers the long-awaited answer.
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