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The Visit (2015)
Topic Started: Apr 22 2015, 10:59 PM (761 Views)
Vanessa
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The Visit, opening through Universal Pictures on September 11, 2015, “focuses on a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a week long trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.“
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RECR92
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As requested, my video review with myself and me amigos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvGf5pyVnTI
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I'm not a big fan of M. Night. He has had some good films, but has made some real doozies over the past few years. I actually like this movie. It was quirky, had good acting and amazing tension. The ending was a little weird for me but whatever. It was good. I would give it a B.
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OH MY GOD NOHEA YOUR VOICE IS SO FUCKING CUTE


Ahem.
Anyway. I like that review. Boo@your friend not liking Horror (or found footage at all). (d) I thought you LOVED it Nohea and here you are complaining that it's slow. Psh. ;)

"CUZ HE LOVED DAT GRANDMA!" killed me. (lol)
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^ About your voice? It is cute. (un)
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I enjoyed this. It would have been better if it was shot like a normal movie. As with many of these movies, the found footage/doc style really adds nothing it only detracts.
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^ I am glad they at least had a GOOD reason for having this be found footage though instead of just the usual "we have to show this to the world! Someone needs to see what's happening here!" bullshit. (lol)
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I agree, it might have been better as a regular film.

But John has a point, at least they give a good reason to keep filming. And without the found footage, the scene with the main girl and the mirror wouldn't have happened.
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December 22nd VOD
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I was pretty pleased with this one. I didn't see this in theaters, but I don't think I would have been disappointed if I had, which I can't say about a lot of this sort of low budget theatrical horror. There were some nicely creepy moments. It's PG-13, but I thought the stuff they implied was decently gnarly. The bits of humor worked, especially the bits that are only funny because it's the kind of stupid stuff that a 12-year-old would come up with thinking he was being funny. The ending is very corny and the climax had an awful lot of convenience. I still kind of enjoyed it.

I liked the two kids a lot. They were both annoying in a way that seemed very real. The brother had me cringing a lot, but he seemed like a real embarrassing little brother. I'm glad that Kathryn Hahn was in this. I think she's another good example of how having a recognizable face in a found footage movie doesn't really hurt the ability of an audience to be absorbed in the story, especially when the movie is barely trying to seem believable as found footage. I did not see the twist coming, and I think it was executed really well. There was no reason that the audience wouldn't have guessed it, but it changed everything that happened in the movie.
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I can't wait to rewatch this. Knowing the twist now will actually make it creepier the second time around.
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Having that knowledge going into it will make this more of an 'eek' movie. I'm still very glad that I didn't have much spoiled for me before I saw it the first time though. I was going to buy The Green Inferno instead of this but since my mom bought that for me, the $20 that I was going to spend on that can go to this instead so yay, I'll have my copy in the next couple days. I am glad there's some features on the disc. For once, I'm actually really looking forward to the photo gallery. (wary)


And I'm also glad you liked this, Vanessa. I kind of assumed you would have mixed feelings about it, lol.
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Holy crap, this was a strange movie. I knew it'd be creepy and weird, but I had no idea it'd be as... Twisted as it turned out to be.

This was a quite enjoyable little film. It didn't feel like your typical M. Night Shymalan movie, but perhaps that's an okay thing. It was quite enjoyable and creepy and weird and well-acted.

I really liked the two kids in the movie. They had good chemistry, and the actors both sold their roles very well. They really did seem like actual siblings, and you could tell that the actors played off each others' strengths very well. I think M. Night did a perfect job casting the two kids.

The grandparents were downright creepy. The woman who played the grandma managed to be both innocent-seeming and terrifying all at once, just as the guy who played the grandpa was at once calm and reassuring, and absolutely creepy as fuck.

Most of this film's weirdness and creepiness comes from its sense of humor. I'm immature and find fart and poo humor hilarious, even as an almost 24 year old, but... Here, it was just twisted and disturbing, even if still oddly humorous.
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I also thought the hide and seek under the house scene was cheesy and campy, but still darkly funny.
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The ending was not at all what I was expecting.
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There was also a surprising amount of heart in the movie. You can tell that the characters of the siblings, as well as their mother, who is just a minor supporting character, are all broken by the fact that the father/husband they once trusted and loved chose simply to leave them behind. There are several emotional scenes between the siblings, and then the
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M. Night hasn't lost his knack for creating emotional family-driven moments that made films like Signs so successful.

Overall, this was a good film. It's a lot weirder and more twisted than you'd expect. It's a lot darker, crueler, stranger than you would expect. It's also a lot more violent than you'd expect from a PG-13 movie.

(On that subject, though. The movie says it's PG-13, but the DVD I rented says R... Is there an R-rated DVD edition I didn't know existed, or is it just a discrepancy?

Either way, I recommend this to someone in the mood for a weird good time.

Grade: B+
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Bluray Contents:

Movie: 1:34:00
Becca's Photos: 1:15
Making Of: 9:55
Deleted Scenes: 8:35
Alternate Ending: 2:25


If your bluray player has BDLive or whatever, there's some extra, randomly chosen trailers for new releases that play before the main menu but I didn't bother with those.
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Not AMAZING, but I did think this was okay. The kids are both likeable and actually developed, and when it was creepy.... it was really creepy. That said, I called the twist and it could be a little too slowpaced at times (I definitely wanted a little more horror, mainly). Still, it was solid, just disappointing since I think it had the potential to be really great
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Puppy, just because there's no evidence she killed her aunt doesn't make her dating material.


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This was the most fun horror film of 2015. Kids were great, the grandparents were great, the humor worked, the scares were there, it had personality and charm.

It felt like the definitive horror film of 2015. Although It Follows was THE horror movie last year, this encompassed what 2015 horror was like for me. It had humor that ran through so many horror films last year, the popcorn and entertainment value that all the mainstream horrors last year strove for, and an intimacy that rung with the indies.
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Not bad. Not great. I kind of saw the twist coming. Although, I was still expecting there to be
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I could have done without the rap, especially the one over the end credits, but what are annoying brothers for other than to be annoying? I should know. I am one (troll) The found footage aspect worked throughout most of the movie. The child actors were good, but I felt some of their dialogue was a skosh forced. As were some of the emotional beats in the movie (e.g., the mother reconciling with her past), even though they made sense. The scene with
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was Selena Gomezed-up. I think my favorite scene in the whole movie is the hide-and-seek scene. It played nicely. Not exactly two thumbs up, but worth a look on a rainy day and nothing else is on.
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