This movie sucked so bad. In real life this mom would lose custody of her children due to neclagence.

Police officer:"How did you not recognize that these crazy people werent your parents when you first dropped your kids off ma'am???"

Mom:"Aint nobody got time fo dat!!! I dropped them at the train station and made them do the trip ALONE. I didnt even call my parents to find out if they arrived safetly... I only took the word of my children talking to them through SKYPE.. I had a boat cruise with my name on it and man wait for no lonely woman! Im not gonna let my kids steal the little youth I have left to get laid and possibly getting a new hubby. I wanted to get pounded!"

My score: 2 - Terrible
Cheap plot, slow tempo, no thrills or goosebumps whatsoever...
Kids did good job, although too much rapping in horror movie for my taste...
Not to mention that found footage movies are no more innovative directing as they were in the beginning of that wave,
now it is a crutch for bad script and lousy director...
More and more I am convinced that Shyamalan was one-time wonder...
Time to put him to greener pastures...

I'd like to point out that this movie is trying to call itself a "comedic, horror", But after seeing this movie, the only comedic horror that you've been viewing, is M. Night Shyamalan's movie career.

This was just painful. I would have loved to been there when this story was pitched, by M Night

I don't really care what anyone else says... I liked it a lot! The acting was great, and I really enjoyed the story. It giggled several times, I warmed to the two young leads right away, and I was thoroughly creeped out. Nice that the usual trope of older sister/younger brother basically hating each other wasn't there. Their relationship was very sweet and believable. So don't listen to the naysayers... Watch it, and make up your own mind.

After (unintentionally ) missing the last few M. Night Shymalan movies & then finding out this was going to be yet another 'found footage'/shaky camera horror, I didn't really have high hopes for this movie but I watched it anyway with an open mind.

I started this movie not expecting anything interesting but found myself really enjoying it throughout. Scarier than I thought a 'horror comedy' would be with some jump scares that rival the tenser moments in more serious movies. I thought the film managed to keep you on your toes and the story wasn't boring which most horror movies are these days. It actually went somewhere and has 'rewatch' value (much like an Shymalan movie i suppose).

The 2 main characters don't really come across as like-able, with 'T Diamond Stylus' being the definition of irritating.

None the less, the film managed to pull off everything it wanted to achieve & probably more. One of the best horror films i've seen this year, comedy or not.

This is just stupid. The only thing I found amazing about the whole thing was that I watched it all! I kept waiting for something intriguing to happen... and it just ended.

every single "found footage" style has people saying that ; they are either tiered of it, or don´t like it / understand it.
It´s me that don´t understand why you guys bother. i mean, i don´t like musicals,so I don´t watch them ( if for some reason im forced to see one, i surely will not bash it for obvious reasons) .
Found footage is here to stay. Either you like or or not. I love them. some are bad, some are good others extraordinary. a bit like all genres and sub-genres ;)

The twist is obvious and telegraphed throughout, but this is still an effective film and something of a return to form for Shyamalan. His two likeable young leads, particularly Oxenbould, ensure the film's slow build doesn't become dull as the film hits all the usual beats of the genre. Shyamalan manages to come up with a fairly reasonable justification for the documentary style footage that the film purports to be made up of, but, as usual with films involving the characters carrying cameras around, it can't quite overcome the suspension of disbelief required to believe they wouldn't simply drop them in the final act. In any event, he doesn't let this style constrain the film and he manages to create some very effective creepy moments that remind you of how good he was in his earlier work.

I am tired of Found Footage films but the Visit is much better than movies like the Gallows at least. But due to talented kid actors and creepy grandparents.
There's usually robotic emotionless acting in M. Night Shyamalan movies that I guess is what he asks for. For once the performances are more human and less lifeless.
The film is creepy but slows down in the middle when the kids talk about their father and personal feelings about him leaving. Which doesn't work since they don't seem too concerned about their grandparents weird behavior at the time.

Well, actually I like the idea very much. Getting old is very scary: loosing physical power, dementia, generation gap, friends' funerals, being abandoned... This topic is so scareful that it is almost tabooed in entertainment - nobody wants even to talk about it. If only this was given to somebody intelligent, it could be a solid, multidimentional 'Babadook'-style movie, that scares disturbingly deeply, existentially. Of course, the main characters should not be children - the old doesn't scare them yet, only disgusts. And the ending should be different, because nobody can escape the time...
But we've got Shyamalan.
Sometimes I wonder if he really thinks his movies are good, or he just doesn't care.

The Visit, for all of the s**t it throws in the audience's face, is surprisingly boring. 90 minutes feels like an eternity in this tonally confused mess.

I don’t look at myself in the mirror cause my dad abandoned me? lmao

I'd heard this was a return to form for Shyamalan, but this was awful and an incredibly disappointing waste of time.

None of the people in this film talk even remotely like real people, ruining any chance of experiencing even a minute of immersion. Every scene intended to be scary or tense ends up feeling incredibly forced, artificial and in some cases unintentionally amusing.

I could've done without that irritating rapping little shit too.