The Visit (2015)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Starring: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan

Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents’ disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation.

Found footage in 2015 still?? They keep trying to find original ways to justify people running around filming everything. ‘The Visit’ is – in my opinion – a perfect example of a found footage film that is not believable.

Ok, not the entire movie, but certainly for most part. The film is about kids visiting their grandparents for the first time, and they’re filming everything “for a documentary”. If I was a grandparent and a child I’ve never seen in my life were to film me every step of the way, I’d call child support right away! Its just not believable – not at all! Once they start suspecting something weird is going on, then yes, it makes sense for them to plant cameras around the house.

The film became increasingly more sinister and creepy. Despite this, though, I already lost interest the moment the found footage couldn’t be justified. And – to be honest – I actually found most of the story uninteresting and quite boring. There’s very little explanation here. The twist ending did have the shock factor, but ultimately its not a film I’d watch again. It was ok for a first viewing. If you’re into this sort of thing, rather watch ‘Paranormal Activity’ (the original). There’s a myriad of haunted found footage films out there nowadays. This one didn’t quite stand out as special.

‘The Visit’ was a huge box office success, earning $98.4 million on a $5 million budget.

Would I watch it again? No.