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Ang Lee fans, look alive, Brokeback Mountain is returning to the big screen to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Focus Feature has announced. The movie, starring the late Heath Ledger as well as Jake Gyllenhaal is a cult classic and is a seamless mixture of the Western and romance genres. Under Lee’s brilliant direction, the movie catapulted queer stories into mainstream cinema as this unique story was universally loved by fans and critics alike.

Brokeback Mountain will return to theaters for special screenings this June as the movie celebrates its 20th anniversary. An official trailer accompanies the announcement which showcases some of the most pertinent moments of the film. The movie’s return to theaters provides fans with an opportunity to not only see this classic again on the big screen but to also see Ledger again, who gives the most nuanced performance of his career in this one.

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This post contains spoilers for "Daredevil: Born Again."

"Daredevil: Born Again" is named for the most famous "Daredevil" comic ever, 1986's "Born Again" by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Miller is the writer credited with making Matt Murdock/Daredevil a Catholic, and "Born Again" (running in "Daredevil" #227-233) is the story that canonized that.

The title, "Born Again," evokes Jesus Christ's resurrection. Like Jesus, Matt is betrayed by one of those closest to him — Karen Page sells Daredevil's secret identity for a heroin fix. He finds refuge in a convent, healed back to health by the nun Sister Maggie (who is secretly Matt Murdock's long-lost mother).

Ann Nocenti started writing "Daredevil" shortly after "Born Again" at issue #236, and kept the Catholic themes going. During the X-Men's "Inferno" event, the Goblin Queen literally unleashed Hell on New York City.

Spoiler Alert !!!Spoiler Warning for Daredevil: Born Again

When we think of Daredevil, we often picture a blind lawyer-turned-vigilante flipping through Hell’s Kitchen, delivering justice while dealing with a whole lot of Catholic guilt. Since his early comic book days, Matt Murdock’s faith has been an integral part of his story, much like his red suit and billy clubs. Because for him, it isn’t just about fighting crime; it’s also about wrestling with morality, sin, and redemption.

Charlie Cox in Daredevil: Born Again (2025) | image: Disney+

But according to recent leaks, Charlie Cox’s upcoming show, Daredevil: Born Again, might have ditched this core part of his character. And let’s just say, fans and critics aren’t exactly thrilled. Although the report isn’t verified, it seems showrunner Dario Scardapane is, after all, staying true to his comments, considering how he had previously objected to the...

M. Night Shyamalan's twist-filled thriller The Visit movie kept viewers guessing until the shocking conclusion. Released in 2015, The Visit follows teen siblings Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould), who are sent to spend a week with their estranged grandparents. Naturally, strange things are afoot, and the teens must learn the shocking truth about their relatives. As with all of Shyamalan's horror movies, The Visit built up to a shocking twist that many didn't see coming, but it cleverly incorporated humor in a way that left many perplexed by its tone.

Despite a largely mixed critical reaction (via Rotten Tomatoes), The Visit was a bona fide financial success (via Box Office Mojo), and it stands as one of M. Night Shyamalan's highest-grossing movies. Unlike many of Shyamalan's other films incorporating fantastical elements, The Visit earned its scares by being an entirely plausible story. Visually speaking, Shyamalan used the found...

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The Visit 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber

The Visit will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on November 26 via Kino Lorber. The 2015 found footage horror film has been newly mastered in 4K with Dolby Vision/Hdr.

M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs. Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, and Kathryn Hahn star. Blumhouse produces.

A new commentary by entertainment journalists Bryan Reesman and Max Evry is included alongside archival extras The Making of The Visit, deleted scenes, alternate ending, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.

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The most terrifying time of the year is nearly upon us, and Spencer’s carries an Art the Clown light-up ugly Christmas sweater.

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Speak No Evil is a psychological horror thriller film written and directed by James Watkins. Based on the 2022 Danish film of the same name written by Mads and Christian Tafdrup, the James McAvoy film follows the story of an American family as their dream holiday at a British family’s idyllic country estate turns into a nightmare because of a psychotic man. Speak No Evil also stars Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Scoot McNairy, Dan Hough, Alix West Lefler, and Motaz Malhees. So, if you loved the thrilling story, immense tension, and compelling characters in Speak No Evil here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Speak No Evil is a Danish psychological horror thriller film directed by Christian Tafdrup from a screenplay co-written by Mads and Christian Tafdrup.

It’s the shock of seeing Norman Bates, knife in hand, clad in his mother’s clothes, grinning maniacally in the swinging lamplight. It’s a supposedly dead husband rising from a bathtub with terrifying saucer contact-lenses. It’s finally connecting “I see dead people” with Bruce Willis being shot at the beginning of “The Sixth Sense.” When movies pull the rug out from under us, it’s one of the greatest thrills that cinema can provide.

As Hollywood continues to reboot countless old properties, it’s easy to think that the days of original and surprising storytelling are long behind us. But these films prove that Hollywood still has a few tricks up its sleeve, ones that have kept us talking for years, and have cemented their place in film history.

Beware of spoilers! Here are the 33 best plot twists of the 21st century.

Kate Erbland, Samantha Bergeson, Christian Blauvelt,...

The first trailer has been released for Eileen, a Neon thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie. The movie is based on a book of the same name by author Ottessa Moshfegh. Eileen follows McKenzie's titular character as she encounters prison counselor Rebecca (Hathaway) while at work, with a relationship between the two spiraling out of control after a dark secret is revealed.

The first trailer for Eileen has been released, revealing more about Neon's upcoming thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie. Directed by William Oldroyd, Eileen is based on a book of the same name by author Ottessa Moshfegh. The story chronicles how the life of McKenzie's titular young prison worker takes a dark turn after Hathaway's Rebecca starts work at the same prison as a psychologist.

Now, Neon has shared the first trailer for Eileen, teasing more of what's to come from the twisted thriller. Watch...

M. Night Shyamalan‘s latest, Knock at the Cabin, showcases the director’s ability to build suspense through dynamic camerawork and composition. The home invasion thriller, which sees a vacationing family held hostage and forced to make an unthinkable choice, eventually gives way to a contemporary biblical tale.

Shyamalan immediately hits the ground running in his latest movie, wasting no time and cutting straight to the suspense-driven home invasion. He makes the single cabin location visually interesting, injecting taut tension and terror, something common among his genre films.

No matter the story or its tone, Shyamalan can wring potent chills from just about any scenario. To prove it, we’re looking back at five of the scariest moments from Shyamalan movies.

Old – Human Cave Crab

In 2021’s Old, M. Night Shyamalan captures the absurdities of time with a whole lot of humor. That means that the strange horror comedy doesn...

(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)

M. Night Shyamalan is a name that is downright synonymous with moviegoing. The filmmaker's career began by being shot out of a cannon, with his studio feature directorial debut, 1999's "The Sixth Sense," becoming an absolute sensation that set sky-high expectations for him. Some even called him the next Steven Spielberg. No pressure!

That's not exactly how things panned out. While Shyamalan did have several other hits with "Unbreakable" and "Signs," even by 2004's "The Village," the whole "where's the twist?" thing had started to catch up to him. The burden of audience expectations was, fair or not, being placed heavily upon his shoulders.

Things really started going sideways with the widely-panned "The Happening," which was followed by his big-budget, back-to-back bad...

M. Night Shyamalan reveals Glass almost included a connection to another of his past movies, The Visit. Known for his original twist-filled stories, Shyamalan delivered a big surprise with 2016's Split by including a cameo of Bruce Willis as his Unbreakable character. The connection and the film's great response allowed the director to expand on this connection with a new movie, Glass, that acted as the conclusion of the trilogy. However, it was met with a less favorable response as Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, and James McAvoy's characters collided.

Glass might not have been a critical hit, but it was still a box office success after earning 247 million worldwide off a 20M budget. There have been no discussions about continuing the Unbreakable franchise with a fourth installment, but M. Night Shyamalan has now revealed a scrapped idea for Glass that would have connected The Visit to the series.

Many attribute "Split" to being M. Night Shyamalan's big mainstream comeback after a widely-publicized string of flops, and it's no surprise that the 2016 thriller is given this distinction — it was a box office and critical success, and it was revealed to be a stealth sequel to one of the director's best films. However, the success of "Split" likely would not have been possible without "The Visit," a low-budget horror thriller released the previous year that also was critically and commercially successful. Shot entirely through a found-footage presentation, it followed the exploits of two siblings (Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould) as they try to figure out what is wrong with their grandparents (Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie) during a five-day vacation.

According to an interview Shyamalan did with MovieWeb back in 2015, "The Visit" had a few different cuts that focused on different elements of the movie. One was a strictly horror-focused cut,...

Actor Joanne Whalley discusses reprising her Daredevil role on the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again. Whalley starred as Sister Maggie Grace, a character introduced in season 3 of the popular Marvel Netflix show. After Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil (Charlie Cox), sustained heavy injuries in The Defenders, Father Paul Lantom (Peter McRobbie) entrusts him to Sister Maggie at the Saint Agnes Orphanage. The titular superhero later learns that Sister Maggie is actually his mother who abandoned him and his father due to post-partum depression.

In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Whalley addresses the possibility of reprising her role for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's new Daredevil show, Daredevil: Born Again. The actor recalls the "great time" she had working on the original series. Read what Whalley says about her desire to reprise her role below:

"I loved Daredevil! I had such a great time on that, oh my God. I haven't heard...

Spoiler Alert: The following story contains details from the season finale of CBS and MGM Television’s Clarice.

On Thursday, Clarice came to the end of its first (and likely final) season, presenting resolution in the case of the Anacostia River murders, as well as signs of personal growth on the part of the titular FBI agent, and a couple of major deaths.

By the time finale, “Family Is Freedom” kicks off, ViCap has uncovered most of the dark secrets of Alastar Pharmaceuticals and its emotionally disturbed CEO, Nils Hagen (Peter McRobbie). Putting her career on the line to aid them in their investigation is Clarice’s fellow agent and best friend, Ardelia (Devyn A. Tyler), who is told by her boss to stay out of the matter, but refuses to do so.

While it’s clear by the beginning of Episode 13 that Hagen is behind the aforementioned murders, one...

This Clarice review contains spoilers.

Clarice Episode 13

Clarice, episode 13, “Family is Freedom,” only closes some of the cliffhangers “Father Time” ended on. We still don’t know whether Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) will be reinstated into the ViCAP team, and we never find out what happened to young Clarice when her Sheriff father left her at the mercy of some pissed off criminals.

The last image we saw of that encounter, when Clarice ran it through her repressed memory bank, was a young Clarice with a gun held to her head as her father hangs his head in shame in the distance. The men who said they were cheated, and called Clarice’s dad a criminal and a coward, warned him he couldn’t hide behind his little girl. We never learn how that scenario plays out. How does she live through that incident to become the wild card federal cop she is today?...

This Clarice review contains spoilers.

Clarice Episode 12

In Clarice episode 12, “Father Time,” Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) finally loses her shit and clocks someone, and the series is better off for it. The young agent who rose to the top of a media circus on her first serial killer case has been scrutinized, chastised, hypnotized, and downsized since returning to the field. She’s had to run amok straight into danger just to get a point across which will solve cases. Tonight, Clarice lashes out at everyone, packs her boxes, and runs until her legs give out. It provides the most satisfying episode the series has given so far.

Starling has even had enough of her chosen, as opposed to assigned, therapist. Dr. Renee Li (Grace Lynn Kung), is the very definition of calming. Just a few words from her mouth usually silence the lambs in Clarice’s head. But...

This Clarice review contains spoilers.

Clarice Episode 11

Clarice, episode 11, “Achilles Heel,” could almost be called the “I-told-you-so” episode. After half a season of knocking down Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) as a rogue, unreliable, dangerous or mentally unbalanced cop, almost every character who got screen time this season gets to say their version of “we should have listened to Clarice.” This bodes well for the investigation, but also for the psyches of her closest acquaintances.

In the last episode, Clarice decided Catherine Martin (Marnee Carpenter) had to face some consequences for her actions. The surviving victim of the serial killer Buffalo Bill took his mother hostage, not entirely intentionally, but functionally enough to warrant observation. Catherine’s mother, the Attorney General Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson), is incensed over the idea her daughter is being victimized by the system, especially since she gave strict orders to the agent she forced to go rogue,...

Stars: Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane, Mary Stuart Masterson, Hannah Marks, Chukwudi Iwuji, Griffin Robert Faulkner, Nathan Reid, Chase Sui Wonders, Andrew Bridges, Peter McRobbie | Written by Adam Egypt Mortimer, Brian DeLeeuw | Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer

Based on co-writer Brian DeLeeuw’s novel In This Way I Was Saved, Daniel Isn’t Real is the second feature from director Adam Egypt Mortimer (Some Kind of Hate). Dark, disturbing and beautifully made, it takes the basic idea of an evil imaginary friend and twists it into a chilling and intense nightmare that goes to some unexpected places.

Daniel Isn’t Real begins in New York, where eight year old Luke (Griffin Robert Faulkner) gains an imaginary friend called Daniel (Nathan Reid) as a way of coping with both his divorcing parents and the fact that he’s just stumbled upon the aftermath of a mass shooting. However, when Daniel...

"You're a time bomb. Ever since the day you were born." LevelFILM has released the first official trailer for a gritty crime thriller titled Juggernaut, the feature directorial debut of Australian filmmaker Daniel Dimarco. This play at a few smaller festivals last year, but has mostly gone under the radar until now. Juggernaut stars Jack Kesy (seen Baywatch, 12 Strong, Death Wish) as a small town outlaw who returns to his hometown, violently obsessed with the notion that his mother's death was not a suicide. The full cast includes Amanda Crew, David Cubitt, Stephen McHattie, Peter McRobbie, Ty Olsson, and Matty Finochio. This is a damn good trailer, very moody with a few cool shots, I'm quite curious about this now. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Daniel Dimarco's Juggernaut, direct from YouTube: After discovering the news that his mother has taken her life, Saxon Gamble returns home,...

Vancouver’s Mad Samurai Productions produces with financing from Telefilm Canada.

Los Angeles-based Spotlight Pictures has acquired international sales rights to the thriller Juggernaut starring Jack Kesy, who stars in 12 Strong and the upcoming Deadpool 2 and Eli Roth’s Death Wish remake.

Amanda Crew, David Cubitt, Stephen McHattie and Peter McRobbie round out the key cast on the feature from writer-director Daniel Dimarco.

Kesy plays a violent young man who returns to his homestead convinced that there are suspicious elements behind his mother’s allege suicide and sets out for revenge.

Matthew Cervi produced through his Vancouver-based company Mad Samurai Productions and Ines Eisses served as co-producer. Ben Silverman, Dave Valleau, Rich Mento and Jason Upton served as executive producers.

The film was developed through the Harold Greenberg Fund, Telefilm Canada, and Creative BC, with production financing support from Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund.

“Daniel Dimarco has devised an ingeniously executed thriller,” Spotlight Pictures CEO [link...

Mad Samurai Productions' next title is Juggernaut. This is the same production company behind Jeff Renfroe's The Colony (2013). Their latest is a crime thriller, starring: Jack Kesy (Deadpool 2), Stephen McHattie and Peter McRobbie. The film was shot in Kamloops, British Columbia. And, levelFILM will release Juggernaut in Canada, possibly in 2017; the film is currently in post-production. A preview of this compelling thriller is hosted here. The film's story starts with Saxon Gamble. He has just lost his mother. But, he does not believe her death was a suicide. Determined to find the truth, Saxon sets out on a path of revenge, to bring her killers to justice. A few promotional items have released for Juggernaut. The film's first poster is shown here. The graphic shows characters Saxon (Kesy) and Hank Sr. (McHattie), in a car. Early stills show characters with guns, on the hunt for someone. As well,...

  "Marvel's Daredevil" is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night. Daredevil will feature: Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple/Night Nurse Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher Élodie Yung as Elektra Natchios Stephen Rider as Blake Tower Scott Glenn as Stick Peter McRobbie as Lantom Daredevil season 2 is live on Netflix Now! Follow @KingPatel7 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.

  "Marvel's Daredevil" is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night. Daredevil will feature: Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple/Night Nurse Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher Élodie Yung as Elektra Natchios Stephen Rider as Blake Tower Scott Glenn as Stick Peter McRobbie as Lantom Daredevil season 2 is live on Netflix Now! Follow @KingPatel7 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.

"Marvel's Daredevil" is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night. Daredevil will feature: Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple/Night Nurse Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher Élodie Yung as Elektra Natchios Stephen Rider as Blake Tower Scott Glenn as Stick Peter McRobbie as Lantom Daredevil season 2 goes live on Netflix March 18 Follow @KingPatel7 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.

"Marvel's Daredevil" is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night. Daredevil will feature: Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple/Night Nurse Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher Élodie Yung as Elektra Natchios Stephen Rider as Blake Tower Scott Glenn as Stick Peter McRobbie as Lantom Daredevil season 2 goes live on Netflix March 18 Follow @KingPatel7 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.

Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Samuel Stricklen, Patch Darragh, Jorge Cordova, Steve Annan, Benjamin Kanes | Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Some would say that the scariest thing you can see in a movie is the name M. Night Shyamalan. It is fair to say that he has had some flops in his time (The Happening) but could The Visit be a return to form? Strangely enough, it may just be… When Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) go to stay at their grandparents house it is fair to say that Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie) are strange. Putting it down to old age, the two children try to ignore their eccentricities. As things get weirder though, the two children are about to find out just what the secret is of the grandparents’ house.

A scary movie...

Caged and waiting to be eaten. Visited by the dead at nightfall. Asked to climb into the oven to clean it. The characters in The Green Inferno, Sinister 2, and The Visit are faced with horror of many forms, and while their scary situations are vastly different from one another, all of their stories can now be experienced on Blu-ray.

The Green Inferno: Hopeful for change, the student activists travel to the Amazon rainforest to save a tribe threatened by deforestation, only to be captured by the natives and placed on the menu. In The Green Inferno, Eli Roth exposes viewers to a palpable sense of primal fear, realistically placing his young cast of well-meaning characters in a horrifying “what if?” situation made all the more real by the filming location: a village deep in the jungles of Peru.

Although Roth’s unique brand of humor takes precedence over...

Let’s start the New Year right with a few horror thrillers.

Latino-Review is giving away a bundle Blu-ray package that will include “The Visit,” “The Green Inferno” and “Sinister 2.”

These movies are not to be missed for one lucky winner. All movies are already on the market today for purchase.

Here are the details on the movie:

“The Visit”

A family visit takes a terrifying turn when two siblings learn who Grandma and Grandpa really are in The Visit, a found documentary-style suspense thriller coming to Digital HD on December 15, 2015, and Blu-ray™ and DVD as well as On Demand on January 5, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The first collaboration from Academy Award®-nominated writer-director M. Night Shyamalan and Academy Award-nominated producer Jason Blum, The Visit Blu-ray and DVD are packed with exclusive bonus features including deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurette, and a suspenseful alternate ending.

When Becca and Tyler...

Good news, Game of Thrones Fans: HBO has finally confirmed the fate of Jon Snow… will be revealed when the show returns for its sixth season on Sunday, April 24. Admit it, you did a double-take just now.

The ten-episode season kicks off at 9 Pm and will for the first time consist exclusively of material not actually adapted from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series. While Martin has provided executive producers David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger, and Bernadette Caulfield with a rough outline of plot points and character arcs, including where his story will eventually end up, he announced just after the new year that he was unable to complete the next installment, “The Winds Of Winter,” far enough in advance for his publishers to get the book out before the show returns.

An adaptation outpacing the source material is an almost unprecedented situation,...

After making big-budget movies like The Last Airbender and After Earth over the past few years, director M. Night Shyamalan returned to his thriller roots last year with The Visit. The filmmaker teamed up with producer Jason Blum for this low-budget story that features largely unknown actors. With The Visit arriving on Blu-ray and DVD today from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, we have an exclusive preview where the filmmaker discusses his casting approach.

The director addresses the notion that 80% of a director's job is casting, revealing that his first decision was to only cast actors who weren't "super-famous." He talked about his approach to casting The Visit, stating that he wouldn't let anyone be around him while he was making his decisions, and that he thinks the result is "a perfect constellation of actors." The filmmaker adds that stars such as Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Kathryn Hahn, Deanna Dunagan and...

Available on Digital HD December 15th & Blu-ray and DVD today from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit explores the eerie side of grandma and grandpa's house, and we've been provided with one Blu-ray / DVD combo pack to give away.

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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (1) Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copy of The Visit.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Visit Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on January 11th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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Previous press release: Universal City, California, November 16, 2015 – A family visit takes a terrifying turn when two siblings learn who Grandma and Grandpa really are in The Visit,...

Last fall, M. Night Shyamalan went lean and mean with the low-budget horror "The Visit." Produced for only $5 million, the film was a big hit, earning nearly $100 million worldwide, and finding the director creatively rejuvenated. If you missed the movie on the big screen, this week is your chance to catch up as "The Visit" hits home video and today we have an exclusive (and creepy) deleted scene. Read More: Review: M. Night Shyamalan Makes A Comeback With Found-Footage Horror 'The Visit' Featuring Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Olivia DeJonge, Peter McRobbie, and Deanna Dunagan, the story follows Becca and Tyler, who are sent to their grandparents’ secluded Pennsylvania farmhouse for a weeklong stay, where they quickly discover something is not right with the elderly couple. Faced with strange rules and increasingly frightening behavior, the children soon realize it will take all their wits to make it home alive.

M. Night Shyamalan's newest thriller will have you nervous to hang out with your grandparents, and today Universal Pictures has revealed when you can bring The Visit home on blu-ray, as well as all the bonus features coming with it. Come inside to learn more!

If you missed out on the latest thriller from M. Night in theaters, or simply want to check it out again, you'll get your chance on January 5, 2016 when it comes to blu-ray. If you can't wait that long, then you can get The Visit early via the digital version on December 15th.

A family visit takes a terrifying turn when two siblings learn who Grandma and Grandpa really are in The Visit, a found documentary-style suspense thriller coming to Digital HD on December 15, 2015, and Blu-ray™ and DVD as well as On Demand on January 5, 2016 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The first collaboration from Academy...

Over the weekend, Marvel and Netflix brought their hit series Daredevil to New York Comic Con, where they debuted the first Season 2 trailer for fans who attended their panel. A leaked version soon spread across the internet, but today, Twitter user I'm Not Autistic revealed what appears to be an official, but much shorter version of the footage shown at Nycc. While this video is more than a minute shorter than the leaked teaser,this high-quality version offers a much better glimpse at Elektra Nachios (Elodie Yung) and The Punisher (Jon Bernthal).

Unfortunately, we only get a brief shot of Elektra putting on her mask, and The Punisher is only shown from the back. However, there is also a brief shot of what appears to be an X-ray of a skull, which resembles The Punisher's logo. We also get brief glimpses of Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Karen Page...

[major spoilers for The Visit; spoiler-free review here]

You know what would have been a surprising twist for M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, The Visit? If it didn’t have a twist. But Shyamalan seems constitutionally incapable of making a movie that doesn’t want to surprise us with a twist. This is the twist of The Visit: about three-quarters of the way through the film, teen Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and her preteen brother, Tyler, (Ed Oxenbould) discover that the grandparents they are visiting, Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), aren’t really their grandparents. Nana and Pop Pop are escaped mental patients who murdered their real grandparents and have taken over their lives. And now Pop Pop is trying to murder Becca and Tyler. Why? Who knows? Except he’s a mental patient, and as we all know, crazy people are violent.

Apparently this is meant to harness our fear of old people,...

Chicago – Director and auteur M. Night Shyamalan has been very spotty in the last nine years. “The Sixth Sense” filmmaker has had less of an impact with “After Earth” and “The Last Airbender,” but scores again with the super weird, creepy and funny “The Visit.”

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Shyamalan has discovered the “found footage” genre (the movie is filmed by the characters) in a satirical way – two teens chronicle their visit for the first time to their grandparents– and does it his way, with crisp cinematography and flipped out images of dread and humor that both freezes and engages the soul. It’s funny to the point of stupidity – and it survives a tremendously unnecessary epilogue. I think M. Night has found a new niche, and will panic less about his reputation and begin to deliver more on his unrealized potential, based on his earlier works. And, with a tremendous boost right...

M. Night Shyamalan returns to his independent roots in “The Visit,” the terrifying story of a brother (Ed Oxenbould) and sister (Olivia DeJonge) who are sent to their grandparents’ (Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie) remote Pennsylvania farm for a week’s vacation. Shyamalan teams up with Jason Blum, the producer behind such successful franchises as “Paranormal Activity” […]

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Universal Pictures released their new horror movie, "The Visit," into theaters today, September 11th, 2015, and all the major,top movie critics have turned in their reviews. It turns out that it got a mixed bag with an overall 53 score out of a possible 100 across 28 reviews at the Metacritic.com site. The film stars: Deanna Dunagan, Ed Oxenbould, Kathryn Hahn, Olivia DeJonge and Peter McRobbie. We've posted blurbs from a few of the critics, below. Clark Collis over at Entertainment Weekly, gave it a decent 75 score, stating: "This is the first Shyamalan movie in a long time that viewers may be tempted to re-visit just to see how he pulls off his magic trick." Sara Stewart from the New York Post, gave it a 75 score, saying: "Like the film itself, it’s simple but well-executed enough." Manohla Dargis from The New York Times, gave it a 70 grade, stating: "The director M. Night Shyamalan...

Listen here, internet. Before we start declaring “M. Night Shyamalan Is Back!” with furious aggression, let’s be honest. Shyamalan may be directing good movies again, but he hasn’t returned to his once genius form. I’m not suggesting that he didn’t make The Visit great; there are no killer trees, water ladies, or Jaden ‘effing Smiths in sight, but is The Visit really The Sixth Sense good? Unbreakable good?

Yet, with that said, I tip my hat towards M. Night because The Visit is equal parts creepy family fun and spooky rural nightmare. In other words, a successfully thrilling night at the movies! Again, the phrase “return to form” may be a little much when praising Shyamalan’s latest twisted accomplishment, but there’s still a victory to be celebrated here, and it smells just like Nana’s home cooking.

Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould star as...

Over the course of his career, M. Night Shyamalan has shown a deft hand with horror and suspense, a major tone-deafness with interpersonal drama, and a slippery grasp on anything approaching humor. These attributes come out to varying degrees depending on which Shyamalan joint you’re watching, but never has the writer/director thrown himself at a little bit of everything with the perplexing abandon he does in The Visit. Not just a horror-comedy, the film is a sort of horror-comedy-drama from the mind of a man who can’t pick which of those genres to focus on and displays no ability to balance or blend them.

The found-footage film, we’re to understand, is pieced together from video shot by aspiring teenaged filmmaker Rebecca (Olivia DeJonge) during a visit to her grandparents’ house with her younger brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould). The weeklong stay will be the first time the...

M. Night Shyamalan sure knows what scares us. Dead people who can only be seen by a sad young boy. Mysterious crop circles suggesting something more frightening to come. And now with his latest film The Visit – a shed full of soiled adult diapers! It’s difficult to discuss an M. Night movie without referring to what disasters his last several films have been and the downward path his career has taken, but The Visit is his best movie in years. That’s not saying much, but it might be all the beleaguered director needs right now.

The Visit begins with single mom/Wal-Mart worker (Kathryn Hahn) revealing to her 15-year old daughter Becca (Olivia DeJonge), who’s filming her, that she ran away from home as a teen and has had no communication with her elderly parents since. She wants to go on a cruise with her new boyfriend...

M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit has been hailed by some critics as a return to form for the much maligned filmmaker. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Visit is another woeful outing from a director that has inundated us with terrible films. It doesn't quite reach the depths of The Happening or The Last Airbender, mercifully. It is another gimmicky, parlor trick film. The Shyamalan 'twist' ending is blatantly obvious within the first ten minutes. There are some humorous moments and the young leads are well cast. That's as high as my praise can go for The Visit.

Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould star as Becca and Tyler. Precocious siblings who are visiting their grandparents for the first time in rural Pennsylvania. The back story is their mother (Kathryn Hahn) has been estranged from her parents for fifteen years. The kids want to meet their grandparents and...

Once again, why does this have to be a first-person narrative? It's not "found footage," because that implies the footage was lost at some point, and that's not the conceit of the film. And yet Blumhouse presents a film that would have worked perfectly well as a regular film with the "I can't stop filming everything" device grafted onto it, and the result is less than it could have been in the most frustrating of ways. One of the things that is most surprising here is that M. Night Shyamalan has apparently given up completely, and is happy to simply be sucking fumes off other people's success now. Seriously… this is where he is at this point? Making one of these omnipresent "boy, I wish someone owned a tripod" horror movies built around a single uninteresting plot point? It has been a tough sixteen years since his breakthrough with "The Sixth Sense,...

It's quite rare in this day in age for a movie directed by a well-known filmmaker to slip completely under the radar throughout principal photography. We first heard about M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit (then known as Sundowning) in March 2014, just as principal photography was wrapping up in the filmmaker's hometown of Philadelphia. Then in November, Universal Pictures acquired the project, with Jason Blum coming aboard to produce with M. Night Shyamalan, and less than a year later The Visit hits theaters this weekend.

The director has taken a lot of heat for a string of big-budget projects that didn't perform so well in theaters, but, for those skeptical about a new M. Night Shyamalan film, The Visit will be a welcome surprise, with the filmmaker going back to his horror/thriller roots with a story that doesn't have all the bells and whistles of last few projects. The...

Home is Where the Hacker Is: Shyamalan’s Return to Entertaining Cinema

In many ways, The Visit, the latest film from once celebrated M. Night Shyamalan, is praiseworthy considering this follows on the heels of two back-to-back cinematic abominations, The Last Airbender (2010) and After Earth (2013). In a similar vein to his earlier thrillers, the director revisits tight-knit family dynamics marred by domestic dramas and supernatural/sci-fi shadings, resulting in another of his famous ‘twists’ audiences seem to hold out for. Surprisingly, it’s a found footage film, and as many films in the subgenre, falls victim to the obvious artificial editing and a legion of conveniences that tend to distract rather than compel.

Though not quite a return to form, and never quite seizing the mounting dread its narrative tends to suggest, it certainly is Shyamalan’s most entertaining film in well over a decade, and he utilizes a simple scenario to pleasurable effect,...

Two children's visit to their grandparents turns into a nightmare in M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, the horror film The Visit. Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould play Rebecca and Tyler, who met their maternal grandfather and grandmother for the first time, years after they became estranged from their mother, played by Parks and Recreation and Step Brothers actress Kathryn Hahn. There, they discover a horrifying revelation and things get rather nasty. The movie also stars Deanna Dunagan and Boardwalk Empire and Daredevil actor Peter McRobbie. Find out what five critics thought about the movie. The Visit is set for release on Friday,...

Title: The Visit Director: M. Night Shyamalan Starring: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deana Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, and Katheryn Hahn The Visit may be better than The Last Airbender, After Earth and Lady in the Water but it is by no means a return to form in the likes of The Sixth Sense, Signs and Unbreakable. The Blumhouse produced horror feature reinvigorates Shyamalan’s sense of suspense in an interesting premise but detracts from it by putting it in the found footage box. When teen siblings Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and Tyler(Ed Oxenbould) encourage their mom (Katheryn Hahn) to go off on a cruise, they embark on a trip to visit her estranged parents. It also just so happens that Becca [ Read More ]

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With films like The Sixth Sense and Signs, M. Night Shyamalan established himself as a filmmaker who relished yanking the rug from beneath the feet of cinemagoers. The Visit, his latest foray into the horror genre, is no exception. Yet a devilishly executed trademark twist is not enough to compensate for the lack of sustained interest and intrigue beforehand.

From the beginning, the film fails to adequately sell a premise that involves a single mother sending her two young children to stay with grandparents she hasn't seen for 15 years after a big falling out. Attempts to suspend disbelief are hampered by the two sprogs constantly talking in a highly self-conscious, cine-literate language that makes it extremely hard to form any kind of emotional connection with them. At one point, Rebecca (Olivia DeJonge) refers to her mother as "a classic narrative character".

The grandparents, John (Peter McRobbie) and Doris (Deanna Dunagan...

The Visit

Written & Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

USA, 2015

M. Night Shyamalan fans, rejoice! His latest feature, The Visit, hints that happier days may lie ahead. This venture, filmed on a modest budget, takes a ton of chances and offers, perhaps, the most unrestrained vision we’ve seen from the divisive artist. Sadly, the awkward tonal shifts between realistic drama and conventional horror never allow The Visit to progress past a curious experiment. But what a bafflingly-curious experiment it is!

Ultimately, as a film critic, you can’t recommend a horror movie that isn’t scary, and The Visit isn’t scary. It’s bat-shit crazy, but it isn’t scary. As you watch the increasingly bizarre events unfold, you aren’t sure if Shyamalan is making a parody of horror films or if he genuinely believes these things are scary. Were it a parody, it would be brilliant, but...

Over the river and through the woods to yet another banal, anticlimactic attempt at storytelling from M. Night Shyamalan. And this time, it’s found-footage. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): have no faith in M. Night Shyamalan anymore

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

I think I’ve figured out the secret of M. Night Shyamalan. His “twist,” if you will. I bet he turns out to be an alien sent to Earth to study humanity. Looking for our weak spots, maybe… except he really doesn’t have even the first clue about us, and his experiments — which have so far taken the shape of movies — mostly go all wrong. He may have imagined, with his flawed understanding of what makes us tick, that The Village and The Happening and (dear god) After Earth were insightful explorations of the human psyche.