The Visit

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The Visit

PG-13

Released Sep 11, 2015

1h 34m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and younger brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) say goodbye to their mother as they board a train and head deep into Pennsylvania farm country to meet their maternal grandparents for the first time. Welcomed by Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), all seems well until the siblings start to notice increasingly strange behavior from the seemingly charming couple. Once the children discover a shocking secret, they begin to wonder if they'll ever make it home.

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Critics Consensus

The Visit provides horror fans with a satisfying blend of thrills and laughs -- and also signals a welcome return to form for writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.

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Max Weiss

Baltimore Magazine

Here, [Shyamalan] loosened up, shed some of his ego, and reminded all of us what a gifted writer and director he truly is.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 12, 2016

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

M. Night Shyamalan made another good movie, and I'm as surprised as you are.

May 3, 2016

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Alison Willmore

BuzzFeed News

The Visit is a pleasant surprise.

Nov 10, 2015

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Paul Lê

Bloody Disgusting

The Visit is a return to form for Shyamalan.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 23, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

While Shyamalan doesn’t reinvent the wheel with “The Visit”, he does show the creative flourishes that made him a respected name and overnight success in the horror-thriller genre.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 21, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

It’s all a very transparent metaphor for family reconciliation and what happens when your old wounds don’t heal.

Rated: 2/4

May 27, 2022

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Kalin D

Brilliant acting all throughout but bad writing holds this film back. Luckily, I was watching at home so I could skip over the multiple rap solos that had nothing to do with the story.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/05/25

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Mark J

It was a pleasant surprise- granted I never saw a trailer so I had no preconceived idea.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/03/25

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Julian Rex M

An oddly coherent detour for the ordinarily narrative swiss-cheese M. Night Shyamalan, The Visit makes use of its talented young leads to support an undeniably perverse--and deeply engrossing--found-footage horror that ties off its lean loose ends in grisly-satisfying fashion.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/09/25

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Darth B

Not the best. Guessed it before the first 15 minutes were up. Meg had seen it before and didn't think I'd like it. I liked it well enough, though.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/01/25

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Tyler G

Shyamalan proves he is still capable of making good movies after four previous stinkers in a row. There are legitimately blood-curdling scary scenes. All the actors are really good, which is always a dice roll with child actors. The twist is legitimately shocking. There is too much of a reliance on jump scares at times, and the lighting is too dark in many of the scenes, but, overall, it works as a horror movie.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/20/25

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Will L

More funny than scary so not exactly a great horror movie but not necessarily a bad movie.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/17/25

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Synopsis

Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and younger brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) say goodbye to their mother as they board a train and head deep into Pennsylvania farm country to meet their maternal grandparents for the first time. Welcomed by Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), all seems well until the siblings start to notice increasingly strange behavior from the seemingly charming couple. Once the children discover a shocking secret, they begin to wonder if they'll ever make it home.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Blinding Edge Pictures, Blumhouse
Rating: PG-13 (Some Nudity|Brief Language|Terror|Thematic Material|Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 11, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 17, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $65.1M
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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