Have your grandparents ever said something like, “You’re so cute I could eat you up!”? Well, they probably don’t mean it literally. But after watching The Visit, expect to be terrified by little comments like that.  

*SPOILER ALERT The Visit is a horror film by M. Night Shyamalan that hit the theaters on September 11, 2015.  It’s about 2 siblings, Becca and Tyler, who go to visit their mother’s estranged parents in the middle of nowhere.  Little do they know that they are up for the adventure of a lifetime.  The grandparents the kids thought they could trust turn out to be strangers: strangers who escaped from a mental asylum.  The kids must undergo their deepest fears to live, or die trying.

The movie had some cheap scares and laughs. There were basements, sounds at night, and of course, a house far away from civilization. The plot was overrated and the actors lacked experience. The twist saves the movie from being an epic fail. It’s completely unexpected and turns the whole movie around.  

At first, you think the grandparents are just old and a bit wacko.  The grandmother, for example, asks Becca to crawl inside the oven to clean it, and she also walks around at night while projectile vomiting. The grandfather spends a ton of time in an old, smelly barn (so smelly that it draws flies and maggots) doing who knows what. Oh, and he thinks he’s being followed all the time.

Of course, the naïve kids think their grandparents are just plain weird at first and, like in every single horror movie, they get closer and closer to the problem. They try to interfere with the grandmother during her night walks and sneak into the barn. However, as they spend more and more time with them, they realize something is up. And it’s not just senility. The plot twist was expected, seeing as the director also directed The Sixth Sense.  

The Visit is a good movie for people who are too scared to watch real horror movies but want to try them out.