After their parents’ divorce, Becca, 15, and Tyler, 13, agree to go to their grandparents’ so their mother can go on a cruise with her new boyfriend. They haven’t met their grandparents before because their mother has been estranged from them for 15 years. Off they go to a nice little farm in Pennsylvania. Becca has decided to turn the event into a documentary about the family, in hopes of reconciliation. But the children soon realize that something is wrong with their grandparents, who act extremely strangely, to the point where Becca fears for their lives…

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Has M. Night Shyamalan learned his lesson? After a series of flops (Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth, the director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs goes back to his roots. Leaving behind the world of studios, stars, and big budgets, he takes on the found footage genre for an amusing little story with no pretensions. The result is a brash attempt at connecting with modern audiences, with uncharacteristically rigid directing. This makes The Visit somewhat strange: not bad, but not really good either. It seems incapable of finding a balance between humor and suspense, neither of which work very well anyway. Which makes one wonder: is Shyamalan over? With a relatively flat first hour livened up by a more convincing ending, the movie does not offer a final answer.