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We review the 2015 movie The Visit, which does not contain any significant spoilers.

M. Night Shyamalan is back – and he really snuck this one in under the radar. The Visit adopts the found footage form of storytelling – a change from Shyamalan’s usual style, though bearing obvious marks of his directorial and writing styles throughout nonetheless – and introduces this horror – akin to the likes of The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity – with a simple premise: a young brother and sister visit their somewhat estranged grandparents as a holiday away, while their parents go on a cruise or something more enjoyable.

The Visit Review and Plot Summary

Before meeting their grandparents for the first time in their lives, Becca, aged 15, and Tyler, 13, are told by their divorced mother, Loretta, that she has not spoken to them for 15 years due to their strong disapproval of her marriage with her high school teacher. Becca and Tyler decide to take a camcorder along with them to make a documentary of their visit. Always a fun idea.

At first, the grandparents generally seem like any other adorable old couple, aside from some suspiciously strange requests – they’re adamantly told they must be in bed by 21:30, and that they also mustn’t go into the basement due to some toxic mould. And, of course, with 21:30 being the prime time at which hunger strikes (this isn’t sarcasm), Becca heads to the kitchen for a snack at which point she is rudely interrupted by the witnessing of her grandma projectile vomiting.

Grandpa – or Pop Pop – tells the kids that grandma – referred to as Nana – merely has a case of the flu, before reminding them of the house rules. The days progress and the kids pick up on instances of noticeably bizarre behaviour being exhibited by their grandparents, including Tyler entering Pop’s shed and happening upon a big pile of shit (akin to The Happening , coincidentally). Becca decides to question Nana about Loretta leaving home to which Nana being screaming and shaking.

The cute couple are later confronted by a woman they met through some prior counselling sessions. The three of them are seen going into the backyard by the kids, though they never see the woman leaving. Some clues lead the kids to believe their grandparents killed the woman by hanging, at which point they decide to film their grandparents’ goings-on post-curfew, by recording them with the camera.

They decide to film the grandparents, and Nana discovers the camera. Nana grabs a kitchen knife and heads for Becca and Tyler’s shared bedroom, before trying to unsuccessfully break her way in. Reviewing the footage, the kids see the knife and call Loretta explaining the situation and demanding they be picked up. And here’s where the classic Shyamalan twist comes in – upon being shown images of their grandparents, Loretta, horrified, reveals that the people in said images aren’t her parents.

Suitably shitting themselves, Becca and Tyler try to escape but are forcefully kept in by the increasingly creepy grandparents who they now know to be complete strangers. Becca sneaks into the basement and finds her real grandparents, both dead, with their work uniforms from their jobs at a mental hospital, thus revealing the strangers are escaped patients who broke into the house, murdered their grandparents and assumed their identities ( I mean, seriously – identity theft is not a joke, guys ).

Despite it already being a pretty messed up situation, it soon turns into a shit-uation, when Pop tries to physically and mentally torment Tyler by rubbing a diaper full of shit in his face, after having locked Becca in a room with Nana who spends the duration trying to eat Becca. Tyler decides he’s put up with enough shit and, in a fit of pure rage, kills Pops with the help of the refrigerator door. Becca and Tyler escape, and are greeted by Loretta and the police. The film finishes with a heartfelt family-oriented moral, in which Loretta tells Becca not to hold onto her anger surrounding her father’s abandonment of them.

Is the movie The Visit good?

Despite the found footage style of filming being one of my least favourite in the genre of horror (which I’m already a fairly avid hater of), the film just works; it delves straight into the story, and presents us with two admirable characters with situations we can all relate to – having to spend unwanted time with extended families.

Tyler in particular, however, is a highlight of the film. Ed Oxenbould does a wonderful job of maintaining a genuinely comical and endearing aspect to his character alongside the effectively established mysterious and eerie atmosphere created once the film kicks in. With a range of running gags throughout the film – including replacing curse words during unfortunate events with the names of famous female pop stars, and some genuinely good rapping skills – the film provides a uniquely enjoyable form of side comedy combined with a primary dose of peril.

If there’s anything to complain about in regards to this film, it’s the usual inaccurate trope of people with mental illnesses being dangerous and ridiculous – something we all know Shyamalan has done on more than one occasion, though it’s a problem in the film industry and media in general.

Despite the clearly present issue surrounding mental health in films, The Visit is a film I thoroughly enjoyed. Many claimed this to be Shyamalan’s comeback after the abomination that was After Earth – and I’d agree. Shyamalan manages to use a form of presentation in a horror film which has been equipped time and time again, yet manages to keep it fresh, full of suspense and, of course, inclusive of a healthy dose of twists to ensure it all pays off. And it does.

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M. Night Shyamalan had his heyday almost 20 years ago. He leapt out of the gate with such confidence he became a champion instantly. And then...something went awry. He became embarrassingly self-serious, his films drowning in pretension and strained allegories. His famous twists felt like a director attempting to re-create the triumph of " The Sixth Sense ," where the twist of the film was so successfully withheld from audiences that people went back to see the film again and again. But now, here comes " The Visit ," a film so purely entertaining that you almost forget how scary it is. With all its terror, "The Visit" is an extremely funny film.

There are too many horror cliches to even list ("gotcha" scares, dark basements, frightened children, mysterious sounds at night, no cellphone reception), but the main cliche is that it is a "found footage" film, a style already wrung dry. But Shyamalan injects adrenaline into it, as well as a frank admission that, yes, it is a cliche, and yes, it is absurd that one would keep filming in moments of such terror, but he uses the main strength of found footage: we are trapped by the perspective of the person holding the camera. Withhold visual information, lull the audience into safety, then turn the camera, and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT?

"The Visit" starts quietly, with Mom ( Kathryn Hahn ) talking to the camera about running away from home when she was 19: her parents disapproved of her boyfriend. She had two kids with this man who recently left them all for someone new. Mom has a brave demeanor, and funny, too, referring to her kids as "brats" but with mama-bear affection. Her parents cut ties with her, but now they have reached out from their snowy isolated farm and want to know their grandchildren. Mom packs the two kids off on a train for a visit.

Shyamalan breaks up the found footage with still shots of snowy ranks of trees, blazing sunsets, sunrise falling on a stack of logs. There are gigantic blood-red chapter markers: "TUESDAY MORNING", etc. These choices launch us into the overblown operatic horror style while commenting on it at the same time. It ratchets up the dread.

Becca ( Olivia DeJonge ) and Tyler ( Ed Oxenbould ) want to make a film about their mother's lost childhood home, a place they know well from all of her stories. Becca has done her homework about film-making, and instructs her younger brother about "frames" and "mise-en-scène." Tyler, an appealing gregarious kid, keeps stealing the camera to film the inside of his mouth and his improvised raps. Becca sternly reminds him to focus.

The kids are happy to meet their grandparents. They are worried about the effect their grandparents' rejection had on their mother (similar to Cole's worry about his mother's unfinished business with her own parent in "The Sixth Sense"). Becca uses a fairy-tale word to explain what she wants their film to do — it will be an "elixir" to bring home to Mom.

Nana ( Deanna Dunagan ), at first glance, is a Grandma out of a storybook, with a grey bun, an apron, and muffins coming out of the oven every hour. Pop Pop ( Peter McRobbie ) is a taciturn farmer who reminds the kids constantly that he and Nana are "old."

But almost immediately, things get crazy. What is Pop Pop doing out in the barn all the time? Why does Nana ask Becca to clean the oven, insisting that she crawl all the way in ? What are those weird sounds at night from outside their bedroom door? They have a couple of Skype calls with Mom, and she reassures them their grandparents are "weird" but they're also old, and old people are sometimes cranky, sometimes paranoid.

As the weirdness intensifies, Becca and Tyler's film evolves from an origin-story documentary to a mystery-solving investigation. They sneak the camera into the barn, underneath the house, they place it on a cabinet in the living room overnight, hoping to get a glimpse of what happens downstairs after they go to bed. What they see is more than they (and we) bargained for.

Dunagan and McRobbie play their roles with a melodramatic relish, entering into the fairy-tale world of the film. And the kids are great, funny and distinct. Tyler informs his sister that he wants to stop swearing so much, and instead will say the names of female pop singers. The joke is one that never gets old. He falls, and screams, "Sarah McLachlan!" When terrified, he whispers to himself, " Katy Perry ... " Tyler, filming his sister, asks her why she never looks in the mirror. "Your sweater is on backwards." As he grills her, he zooms in on her, keeping her face off-center, blurry grey-trunked trees filling most of the screen. The blur is the mystery around them. Cinematographer Maryse Alberti creates the illusion that the film is being made by kids, but also avoids the nauseating hand-held stuff that dogs the found-footage style.

When the twist comes, and you knew it was coming because Shyamalan is the director, it legitimately shocks. Maybe not as much as "The Sixth Sense" twist, but it is damn close. (The audience I saw it with gasped and some people screamed in terror.) There are references to " Halloween ", "Psycho" (Nana in a rocking chair seen from behind), and, of course, " Paranormal Activity "; the kids have seen a lot of movies, understand the tropes and try to recreate them themselves.

"The Visit" represents Shyamalan cutting loose, lightening up, reveling in the improvisational behavior of the kids, their jokes, their bickering, their closeness. Horror is very close to comedy. Screams of terror often dissolve into hysterical laughter, and he uses that emotional dovetail, its tension and catharsis, in almost every scene. The film is ridiculous on so many levels, the story playing out like the most monstrous version of Hansel & Gretel imaginable, and in that context, "ridiculous" is the highest possible praise.

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Spoiler Space: The Visit

Thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot details we can’t reveal in our review .

One interesting thing about The Visit —the first M. Night Shyamalan movie since The Village to turn on a third-act plot twist—is the lengths to which the movie goes to keep the audience from reaching what should be the most logical conclusion. Hints about a family secret and unexplained events that suggest everything from supernatural ritual to extraterrestrial control work the kids’ (and, by extension, the audience’s) imaginations, but when they tell Mom about it over Skype—briefly swinging the laptop over to the window to show her that Pop Pop and Nana are outside—she responds with the obvious answer that the viewer probably hasn’t had time to think of: “Those aren’t your grandparents.”

No, of course they’re not. They’re just two elderly people who happened to be standing at the train station awkwardly holding a sign with Becca and Tyler’s names on it, whom the kids have accepted as their grandparents because they wanted to. Found-footage movies generally operate under the logic that people behave more or less normally when there’s a camera around all the time. The Visit ’s neatest tweak on the genre is that everyone is consciously playing for the camera—even Becca, who reframes into a tight close-up as she puts her hand over Nana’s early on.

Nana and Pop Pop—violent escapees from a nearby mental hospital who forced their way into the home of two volunteers, the real grandparents—are both trying to keep up the appearance of sanity and normalcy, but are doing a terrible job. “You know, I used to be an actor” becomes a running gag, uttered by random strangers—an Amtrak conductor, a neighbor who comes by while Nana and Pop are out—who then proceed to ham it up for Becca and Tyler. Shyamalan is a notoriously economical writer, with little in the way of the extraneous. (See: Signs .) Here, all the references to performance—whether it’s Tyler’s “ethnically confused” rapping or Becca directing her brother to unpack his suitcase without looking at the camera—converge in a climax where the kids are forced to act out Nana and Pop Pop’s deranged idea of “normal” family night while they wait for the local cops to arrive.

There’s plenty of other stuff, too; whether it’s Becca’s low self-esteem, Tyler’s offhand recollections of disappointing their dad at a pee wee football game, or the neighbors who drop off food while the imposter grandparents aren’t home, everything happens for a narrative reason. And then there’s the treasure trove of other Shyamalanisms: the focus on divorce and marital turmoil; the references to hippies-turned-authoritarians, alien invasion stories, and ’70s pop culture; the obsession with water (see: Unbreakable , Signs , Lady In The Water ), which manifests itself in the imposter grandma’s belief in an alien species that can only be contacted by being drowned in a well; and the home invasion premise (see: Signs , the “Orange Man” sequence in Unbreakable , the flashback in After Earth ), which the movie hides until the third act.

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The Ending Of The Visit Explained

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M. Night Shyamalan is notorious for using dramatic twists towards the endings of his films, some of which are pulled off perfectly and add an extra layer of depth to a sprawling story (hello, Split ). Some of the director's other offerings simply keep the audience on their toes rather than having any extra subtext or hidden meaning. Shyamalan's 2015 found-footage horror-comedy The Visit , which he wrote and directed, definitely fits in the latter category, aiming for style over substance.

The Visit follows 15-year-old Becca Jamison (Olivia DeJonge) and her 13-year-old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) when they spend the week with their mother's estranged parents, who live in another town. Loretta (played by WandaVision 's Kathryn Hahn ) never explained to her children why she separated herself away from her parents, but clearly hopes the weekend could help bring the family back together.

Although The Visit occasionally toys with themes of abandonment and fear of the unknown, it wasn't particularly well-received by critics on its initial release, as many struggled with its bizarre comedic tone in the found-footage style. So, after Tyler and his camera record a number of disturbing occurrences like Nana (Deanna Dunagan) projectile-vomiting in the middle of the night and discovering "Pop Pop"'s (Peter McRobbie) mountain of used diapers, it soon becomes clear that something isn't right with the grandparents.

Here's the ending of The Visit explained.

The Visit's twist plays on expectations

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Because Shyamalan sets up the idea of the separation between Loretta and her parents very early on — and doesn't show their faces before Becca and Tyler meet them — the film automatically creates a false sense of security. Even more so since the found-footage style restricts the use of typical exposition methods like flashbacks or other scenes which would indicate that Nana and Pop Pop aren't who they say they are. Audiences have no reason to expect that they're actually two escapees from a local psychiatric facility.

The pieces all come together once Becca discovers her real grandparents' corpses in the basement, along with some uniforms from the psychiatric hospital. It confirms "Nana" and "Pop-Pop" escaped from the institution and murdered the Jamisons because they were a similar age, making it easy to hide their whereabouts from the authorities. And they would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.)

However, after a video call from Loretta reveals that the pair aren't her parents, the children are forced to keep up appearances — but the unhinged duo start to taunt the siblings. Tyler in particular is forced to face his fear of germs as "Pop Pop" wipes dirty diapers in his face. The germophobia is something Shyamalan threads through Tyler's character throughout The Visit, and the encounter with "Pop Pop" is a basic attempt of showing he's gone through some kind of trial-by-fire to get over his fears.

But the Jamison kids don't take things lying down: They fight back in vicious fashion — a subversion of yet another expectation that young teens might would wait for adults or law enforcement officers to arrive before doing away with their tormentors.

Its real message is about reconciliation

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By the time Becca stabs "Nana" to death and Tyler has repeatedly slammed "Pop-Pop"'s head with the refrigerator door, their mother and the police do arrive to pick up the pieces. In a last-ditch attempt at adding an emotional undertone, Shyamalan reveals Loretta left home after a huge argument with her parents. She hit her mother, and her father hit her in return. But Loretta explains that reconciliation was always on the table if she had stopped being so stubborn and just reached out. One could take a domino-effect perspective and even say that Loretta's stubbornness about not reconnecting and her sustained distance from her parents put them in exactly the vulnerable position they needed to be for "Nana" and "Pop-Pop" to murder them.

Loretta's confession actually mirrors something "Pop-Pop" told Tyler (before his run-in with the refrigerator door): that he and "Nana" wanted to spend one week as a normal family before dying. They should've thought about that before murdering a pair of innocent grandparents, but here we are.

So, is The Visit trying to say that if we don't keep our families together, they'll be replaced by imposters and terrify our children? Well, probably not. The Visit tries to deliver a message about breaking away from old habits, working through your fears, and stop being so stubborn over arguments that don't have any consequences in the long-run. Whether it actually sticks the landing on all of those points is still up for debate.

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Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn said the hate she received over her routines at the Paris Games is “devastating.”

The 36-year-old B-girl, who performs as Raygun, responded to the intense and relentless online criticism in a short video message posted Thursday on Instagram.

She began by thanking her supporters.

“I really appreciate the positivity and I’m glad I was able to bring some joy into your lives,” she said. “That's what I’d hoped.”

Gunn said she didn’t realize that would also “open the door to so much hate, which has frankly been pretty devastating.”

Social media memes and skits re-creating her dance exploded on the internet after clips of her routine went viral. One move in particular — where Gunn holds her arms close to her body and kicks one leg in the air as she leans back — was quickly dubbed the “kangaroo” in reference to her native country.

Gunn said in her post on Thursday that she “had fun” with her routine, but took it very seriously.

“I worked my butt off preparing for the Olympics and I gave my all, truly. I’m honored to have been a part of the Australian Olympic team and part of breaking’s Olympic debut,” she said.

Gunn didn’t specifically address rumors surrounding her performance and instead referred critics who questioned how she made the team to statements the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and others released in her defense.

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He also slammed a Change.org petition that accused Gunn of “manipulating the selection process to her own advantage.” The petition demanded an apology from Gunn and Paris Chef de Mission Anna Meares. The petition has more than 56,000 signatures.

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Shyamalan's best movie in over a decade is a wickedly entertaining horror romp with a sharp sense of humor.

There’s a yummy little narrative twist near the close of The Visit . The fact that it isn’t an earth-shattering or movie-defining cinematic surprise by any stretch is the surest sign of many that filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has finally gotten his shit together (at least for one movie) after over a decade of sub-par offerings that made him the poster boy for squandered potential. The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable (both modern classics in my book) left audiences reeling with their mind-blowing late revelations, but with his subsequent films his craftsmanship dipped as he scrambled to wow us with his trademark twists (in addition to making two of the most egregiously bad big-budget movies of the last decade, After Earth and The Last Airbender ). He hasn’t captured his former glory with his latest small-scale scare machine, but for the first time in a long time, he’s made a movie that simply works .

The story is a modern take on Hansel and Gretel, following teenager Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and her wannabe-rapper pre-teen brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) visiting their maternal grandparents, who they’ve never met, for the first time. Their single mom (the versatile Kathryn Hahn) has been estranged from Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie) for years following an ugly incident she doesn’t have the guts to share with the kids yet. Nana and Pop Pop seem a little strange at first, but at the kids’ age, aren’t all elderly people a little weird?

Nothing alarming happens over the first couple of days. Nana’s constantly baking them goodies and Pop Pop keeps himself busy with chores. Becca and Tyler soon discover, however, that Nana isn’t quite herself when the sun goes down. Pop Pop advises them to stay in their bedroom past their 9:30 curfew (bedtime!), but the mischievous Tyler (whose self-dubbed emcee name is “T-Diamond Stylus”) can’t resist peeking out the door when they hear mysterious, violent sounds echoing just beyond it. Seems Nana loses her mind and has a tendency to scurry about the house naked, vomiting and screeching like Gollum tripping on mushrooms.

The glue that holds the movie steady is a simple device; Becca’s an aspiring filmmaker, and she’s making a documentary about the trip and their family history. She’s brought along two DSLRs (manned by she and Tyler), and all the footage we see is ripped straight from the cameras’ memory cards. It’s one of the better found-footage horror movies to come out in recent years because the scenario makes perfect sense and the cameras are oh-so-much better than the grainy camcorders we’re used to characters swinging around. Because Becca’s a film geek, she’s constantly thinking of composition and “cinematic tension,” which basically gives Syamalan an excuse to make the movie look slick while adopting the handheld aesthetic when needed. A smart setup indeed.

Shyamalan wastes no time doling out creepy jump scares. Early on, the kids take the cameras under the porch (a maze of dark, blind corners) to play hide-and-seek. Soon enough, Nana joins the fun. What makes the sequence so scary is the first-person perspective the two cameras; with no establishing shots of any kind, we’re as lost and panicked as the kids are when we notice Nana skittering around on her hands and knees. My favorite scare sees Tyler setting up one of the cameras in the living room secretly. We see the room empty, and then we see Nana across the way, slamming the basement door over and over (in a nice touch, Shyamalan cuts to Becca’s camera in the bedroom as we hear the slamming echo through the house). Back to the living room and Nana slowly walks out of frame. Again, empty room. Then…boom! I saw the scare coming a mile away, and I still all but wet my pants.

Equally balanced with the scares are moments of real humor. This is the funniest movie Shyamalan’s ever made (besides The Happening , I guess), and most of the comedy stems from Oxenbould, who’s a veritable show-stealer. His white-boy rap routine is hilarious (freestyles abound) and he always seems to know how to make a scene funnier. The entire cast is pretty great, and the only thing that threw me a little was Dunagan’s casting. She’s actually quite ravishing at times, which I’m almost positive is unintentional, but nonetheless occasionally distracts from the fact that she’s supposed to be revolting (her flowing silver hair is glorious!). See? I’m distracted just writing about it. In all seriousness, the cast members each strike the perfect chord, and with Shyamalan holding up his end, it makes for a mostly rock-solid horror experience. Mostly.

The scares and laughs work without a hitch, but the dramatic piece of the puzzle doesn’t fit quite right. There are themes of familial anger, regret, and resentment (parental abandonment is a bitch) that leave little to no emotional impression. Throughout, Becca tries to convince Nana and Pop Pop to participate in sit-down interviews for the documentary, but each attempt falls apart when she brings up her mom, a touchy subject that clearly still strikes a chord. The movie stops dead when Tyler tells a long-winded story about a little league football game he lost for his team, a mistake he believes led to their father leaving the family. Every time the movie veered into family-drama territory, I had an immediate itch to get back to the bump-in-the-night stuff punctuated by unexpected laughs.

I mentioned a twist; don’t think about it too much. It comes, and it’s great, but the best stuff is in the lead-up and aftermath. Shyamalan’s working on a smaller scale here than he has in a long, long time, and it seems to be just what the doctor ordered. Unpretentious, scary, and wickedly entertaining, The Visit will, with hope, signal a new, not-shitty period in a fallen filmmaker’s career.

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M. Night Shyamalan's twist endings are the hallmark of his career, and his 2015 movie The Visit has one of the most exciting ones. Olivia DeJonge, beloved for playing Ashley in the twisted Christmas horror film Better Watch Out, stars as Becca, a teenage girl who stays with her grandparents alongside her brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould). What should be a fun and peaceful family vacation becomes a perplexing and mysterious nightmare and the teenagers must scramble to discover the dark and haunting truth.

The M. Night Shyamalan horror movie has an exciting ending that shifts the audience's perception of the story, proving once again that the filmmaker is great at providing surprising moments that no one sees coming. The final scenes of The Visit make this one of the most unnerving horror movies of the 2010s.

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What Happens At The End Of The Visit, And What Is The Twist Ending?

Becca falls into the final girl horror movie trope when she makes an important discovery that is key to the ending of The Visit . When she discovers the dead bodies of her and Ed's grandparents, she also sees uniforms from the hospital where they were employed. This helps her see that "Nana" and "Pop Pop" were patients who ran away, killed their grandparents, and pretended to be them. This is a huge plot twist that was hard to see coming.

The satisfying horror movie ending has the siblings fighting back, but the final scenes are tense and scary, and their survival never feels like a guarantee. Pop Pop locks Becca in her room and hurts Tyler, but Tyler kills Pop Pop and Becca kills Nana. The teenagers are able to get away and talk to the police about what just happened.

The Visit ending works on two levels: a fast-paced, thrilling example of a good horror movie plot twist and also an emotional story about family bonds and problems. Becca and her mom Loretta (Kathryn Hayn) have a tough conversation about how Loretta never talked to her parents after a fight 15 years prior. Loretta wants Becca to stop feeling anger about her own dad's decision to leave the family behind, and the two characters share a sweet moment that helps Becca move forward.

This adds an extra layer to the movie and makes Becca a more fully formed character. It also makes both Becca and Ed feel real since they may be dealing with this out-of-this-world situation, but they are also regular teenagers who feel the pain of a parent who doesn't show them the love that they deserve. While Shyamalan's movie Old is a bad adaptation , The Visit shares that sometimes, it can be difficult to get along with family and it can be tough to move on from past hurts. The movie may have a fun and flashy twist, but it has some deep moments as well that can't be ignored.

How Does This Twist Compare To Others In M. Night Shyamalan Horror Movies?

The Visit ending has one of the best and most unpredictable horror movie plot twists , which makes sense given M. Night Shyamalan's reputation for having shocking moments in most of his films. When comparing the reveal of the identity of "Nana" and "Pop Pop," it's fun to think about the other big reveals in the filmmaker's career. Of course, the standard will always be the twist in the important horror movie The Sixth Sense when it turns out that Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is actually dead and that's one reason for his sweet bond with Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment).

The twist at the end of The Visit might not be quite as stunning as the one in The Sixth Sense , which will always be one of the best horror movie plot twists as it creates such a compelling atmosphere of shock and awe.

However, The Visit still has a fresh and different ending and the final scenes prove the strong character development of the movie. At first, Pop Pop and Nana seem perfectly normal and innocent, and no one would think that grandparents would be evil. And even when Becca and Ed start noticing weird things, it's hard to think that these characters might not be who they are claiming to be. That would mean that they are truly evil and diabolical, and they seem so naive.

The Visit twist ending also works because it's so creepy. Like Pearl (Mia Goth) and Howard (Stephen Ure) in X and Pearl , the patients lying about their identities are definitely unsettling. The movies make sure that the characters are odd and mysterious, but they never seem like they could be killers until audiences finally see them causing havoc.

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Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, ‘The Visit’ is a gripping psychological horror film that takes audiences on a chilling journey. Released in 2015, the story follows siblings Becca and Tyler (Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould) as they embark on a week-long visit to their estranged grandparents’ rural farm. The film takes a sinister turn when the children discover disturbing behavior from their seemingly sweet grandparents (Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie). Shyamalan skillfully blends suspense and terror, creating an unsettling atmosphere that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

As the siblings attempt to unravel the dark secrets hidden within the farmhouse, ‘The Visit’ explores themes of family, trust, and the psychological impact of confronting one’s deepest fears. The movie’s distinctive narrative and unforeseen twists firmly establish it as an outstanding horror thriller. For enthusiasts craving spine-tingling experiences, delve into these movies like ‘ The Visit ,’ each promising an enthralling expedition into the domains of suspense and psychological intrigue.

8. The Devil Inside (2012)

Directed by William Brent Bell, ‘ The Devil Inside ‘ is a found-footage horror film that follows Isabella Rossi (Fernanda Andrade) as she investigates her mother’s involvement in a series of exorcisms gone wrong. The film unfolds through a documentary-style lens , chronicling Isabella’s journey into the Vatican’s controversial exorcism school and the subsequent horrors she uncovers. The cast includes Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, and Suzan Crowley as Maria Rossi, all bringing in their A-game for this horror endeavor. Co-relating to ‘The Visit,’ both films use a documentary-style approach to intensify horror, unraveling family secrets and psychological terror through unsuspecting characters caught in unsettling situations, offering viewers a spine-chilling experience.

7. Don’t Breathe (2016)

Directed by Fede Álvarez, ‘Don’t Breathe’ is a horror thriller that plunges viewers into the suspenseful world of a blind army veteran’s home invasion. As a trio of young burglars attempts to steal from the blind man (Stephen Lang), the tables turn, and the invaders find themselves fighting for survival in a pitch-dark, sound-sensitive environment. The film boasts a tense narrative and expertly crafted suspense owing to strong performances by Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, and Dylan Minnette. In a parallel with ‘The Visit,’ ‘Don’t Breathe’ relies on intense atmospheres and unexpected twists, trapping characters and audiences in a nerve-wracking exploration of the unknown, creating a thrilling cinematic experience.

6. Mother! (2017)

Jennifer Lawrence delivers a standout performance in Darren Aronofsky’s ‘ Mother! ‘, a surreal and allegorical horror film. Lawrence portrays the unnamed protagonist, whose tranquil life with her husband (Javier Bardem) is disrupted by the arrival of enigmatic guests. As tensions escalate and chaos ensues, Lawrence’s portrayal of the bewildered and increasingly distraught character anchors the film’s descent into madness. Aronofsky’s direction creates a haunting atmosphere, amplified by the stellar performances of the entire cast. In a thematic parallel to ‘The Visit,’ ‘Mother!’ dives into psychological horror and family dynamics, immersing viewers in a nightmarish journey of symbolism and existential dread.

5. Sinister (2012)

‘ Sinister ‘ and ‘The Visit’ share a common thread in their exploration of unsettling family dynamics and psychological horror. Both films intricately blend suspense with a focus on family secrets, unraveling disturbing truths within seemingly ordinary households. In ‘Sinister,’ directed by Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke plays a true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt, who unwittingly exposes his family to supernatural horrors while investigating a series of murders. The film’s sinister atmosphere, unexpected twists, and Hawke’s performance make it a psychological thriller akin to ‘The Visit,’ where unsuspecting characters confront dark revelations within the confines of their familial relationships.

4. X (2022)

Directed, written, produced, and edited by Ti West, ‘ X ‘ unfolds as a slasher film featuring Mia Goth in dual roles, navigating the characters of Maxine and the elderly Pearl. With a star-studded cast including Jenna Ortega, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure, and Scott Mescudi, the film immerses viewers in the unsettling atmosphere of a 1979 production set. As the crew assembles to shoot a pornographic film on a Texas property, reminiscent of ‘The Visit’s eerie rural setting, they become ensnared in a perilous situation, facing the threat of a homicidal elderly couple.

3. Jessabelle (2014)

‘Jessabelle’ is a supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Greutert. The movie features Sarah Snook in the lead role as Jessie, a woman who returns to her childhood home in Louisiana after a car accident leaves her partially paralyzed. As Jessie uncovers dark secrets through a series of videotapes left by her deceased mother, the film intertwines Southern Gothic elements with supernatural horror. Mark Webber, David Andrews, and Joelle Carter, part of the supporting cast, infuse the narrative with the essential elements of horror through their performances. ‘Jessabelle’ shares thematic similarities with ‘The Visit’ through its exploration of family secrets and the eerie atmosphere surrounding a protagonist’s return to her roots, unraveling haunting revelations.

2. The Wretched (2019)

Directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce, ‘ The Wretched ‘ is a supernatural horror film that follows teenager Ben (John-Paul Howard) as he discovers a sinister presence lurking in his small coastal town. As Ben investigates, he uncovers a dark secret involving a malevolent entity possessing his neighbors. The film blends elements of folklore and suspense, creating a chilling atmosphere as Ben battles to save his family and friends from the ancient evil. With standout performances from Howard and Piper Curda, ‘The Wretched’ stands as an encapsulating narrative that resonates with fans of ‘The Visit,’ both exploring the horrors hidden beneath seemingly ordinary settings.

1. The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

For aficionados of psychological horror craving a fresh, hair-raising experience akin to ‘The Visit,’ ‘ The Taking of Deborah Logan ‘ is an absolute must-watch. Directed by Adam Robitel, this film seamlessly melds found-footage aesthetics with a riveting narrative, immersing viewers into the disquieting unraveling of Deborah Logan’s life. Jill Larson delivers an unforgettable performance as Deborah, a woman battling Alzheimer’s, whose condition takes a sinister turn. The film masterfully blends supernatural horror elements with the vulnerability of dementia, creating an atmosphere of unnerving suspense. As Deborah’s disturbing transformation unfolds, ‘ The Taking of Deborah Logan ‘ stands as a haunting exploration of familial ties and the eerie unknown.

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The Visit follows Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould), two siblings who head out to rural Pennsylvania to document the meeting of their estranged grandparents, last seen when their mother (Kathryn Hahn) left home fifteen years ago. When Becca and Tyler arrive at Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop's (Peter McRobbie) farm, they immediately set about crafting the documentary with the intent of showing how their mother leaving home at a young age echoes the pattern of their own father abandoning them when they needed him the most.

However, as Becca and Tyler focus the lens closer on Nana and Pop Pop the more abnormal their subjects reveal themselves to be. As the week-long visit crawls along, the cracks in the grandparents' good-natured facade widen and widen, finally exploding in a fit of horror that Becca and Tyler must fight to survive.

The latest film from beleaguered filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, The Visit is a fun and kitschy horror parable - though the trademark Shyamalan twist will be a big disappoint for many viewers.

Shyamalan both wrote and directed The Visit , and as his critics might expect, it's a "blessing and a curse" package. On the directorial front, there isn't much crafting or technique to speak of, due to the found-footage format of the film. Like every movie in the (tired) sub-genre, the found-footage "technique" involves coming up with reasonable scenarios and context for people to be filming themselves - and to continue doing so, even when in peril. While the The Visit does manage to root its voyeuristic perspective in both the narrative themes and the personality matrixes of the two main characters, the format nonetheless feels binding, and in moments of real fright or action the usual shaky cam antics disrupt the viewing experience. In short: if you don't like found-footage, you won't like this found-footage movie.

On paper, however, The Visit does manage to capture a lot of the richness of classic '70s or early '80s horror, unfortunately wrapping it around a flimsy twist - one that will likely elicit more bad stigma for Shyamalan, the crowned king of flimsy twists. To the movie's credit, Shyamalan does what good horror storytellers are supposed to: he takes a familiar and relatable concept (going to visit your grandparents) and twists it into something unfamiliar and menacing. The Visit indeed has that "campfire ghost story" quality that could've made it an enduring horror parable - so for anyone who likes their fright flicks on that level (read: creepy more than scary or gruesome) this will be a nice fit. The tone of the story is also blessedly kitschy and always self-aware enough to not take itself too seriously, which creates a level of horror/comedy that fans can at least laugh along with (as opposed to at ).

The cast of characters are drawn well enough, though the two main characters may put-off viewers who can't appreciate the level of meta humor in the would-be media stars. Both Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould thankfully polish their characters into genuine modern (pre-)teens, fleshing out the otherwise flat caricatures of pretentious film snob and "ethnically confused" suburban rapper - personas the movie pokes fun at. In certain scenes where more drama and depth are required, both young leads actually deliver quite well, and Shyamalan interjects some genuine heart and drama into the film (though those same dramatic moments, while quality on their own, feel a bit at odds with the otherwise horror kitsch tone of the film).

Deanna Dunagan ( Unforgettable ) and Peter McRobbie ( Daredevil ) jump in with both feet to the roles of Nana and Pop Pop, respectively. Though the movie keeps the oddball old couple at arm's length, the two veteran character actors own every scene they're in, sometimes with just body movements and glances. The Visit only keeps traction because of what Dunagan and McRobbie can deliver; if nothing else, the electricity of what they might do keeps every scene they're in lively and riveting. On the peripheral, Kathryn Hahn pops in for a funny light portrayal as "The Mom," only to have to swing all that funny charm over into some key (overly heavy?) dramatic moments.

In the end, The Visit is fine horror matinée (or future rental) material for fans who don't mind the kitchsy campfire story style of the film. Those hoping for Shyamalan to continue his 'comeback' after the success of Wayward Pines , or for the filmmaker to deliver another twist on par with The Sixth Sense , will end up walking away disappointed.

The Visit is now playing in theaters. It is 94 minutes and is Rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic material including terror, violence and some nudity, and for brief language.

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From director M. Night Shyamalan, The Visit follows two siblings who are sent to stay with their estranged grandparents while their mother is out of town on vacation. Realizing that all isn't what it seems during their stay, the siblings set out to find out what is really going on at their grandparents' home. Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould star as Becca and Tyler, with Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, and Kathryn Hahn making up the rest of the main cast.

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Parents need to know that The Visit is a found-footage horror movie from director M. Night Shyamalan . There are plenty of spooky images, sounds, and dialogue, as well as jump scares and a small amount of blood and gore. Viewers see dead bodies (including one killed in a rather shocking way), and two teens, 13 and 15, are frequently in peril. The 13-year-old boy fancies himself a ladykiller, which leads to some minor innuendo, and the "Nana" character's naked bottom is shown a couple of times. Language includes a use of "f--k," plus "s--t," "bitch," and more, most frequently spoken by the 13-year-old. Adult characters infrequently smoke cigarettes, and there's a very brief, mimed reference to smoking pot. Shyamalan is a filmmaker whom horror hounds love to hate, but this movie could be a comeback that fans will want to see. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Thirteen-year-old Tyler ( Ed Oxenbould ) and 15-year-old Becca (Olivia DeJonge) agree to spend a week with their grandparents while encouraging their mom ( Kathryn Hahn ) to take a vacation with her boyfriend. The kids have never met their grandparents, "Nana" (Deanna Dunagan) and "Pop Pop" (Peter McRobbie), at least partly because when their mother left home 15 years earlier, something terrible apparently happened. At first things seem fine, but then Nana and Pop Pop start behaving strangely. Even if it can all be explained -- Nana gets "sundown" syndrome, and Pop Pop requires adult diapers -- it doesn't quite ease the feeling that something's wrong. Meanwhile, Becca documents their visit on video, hoping to capture something that explains it all.

Is It Any Good?

After several perplexing misfires, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has scaled back, gone for a lower budget and a lighter tone, and emerged with his most effective movie in over a decade. THE VISIT begins interestingly; the potentially creepy moments can be easily explained away and even laughed off, but the director still manages to create a subtle, creeping dread that steadily builds toward the climax.

Shyamalan uses the found-footage concept with more creativity than most other filmmakers, displaying his usual intriguing grasp of three-dimensional space, as well as empty space. The characters themselves are even aware of certain cinematic theories that could make their "documentary" more interesting. They're refreshingly intelligent and self-aware, and they never blunder stupidly into any situation. If the movie has a drawback, it's that fans will be looking hard for clues to one of Shyamalan's big "twists." As to what it is, or whether there is one, we're not saying.

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Movie Details

In theaters : September 11, 2015
On DVD or streaming : January 5, 2016
Cast : Kathryn Hahn , Ed Oxenbould , Olivia DeJonge
Director : M. Night Shyamalan
Inclusion Information : Indian/South Asian directors, Female actors
Studio : Universal Pictures
Genre : Horror
Run time : 94 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : disturbing thematic material including terror, violence and some nudity, and for brief language
Last updated : July 24, 2024

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Detroit News Tom Long There's undeniable fun in watching a couple of veteran actors get strange with two newcomers. "The Visit" may be worth one.
RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley A film so purely entertaining that you almost forget how scary it is. With all its terror, "The Visit" is an extremely funny film.
Baltimore Magazine Max Weiss Here, [Shyamalan] loosened up, shed some of his ego, and reminded all of us what a gifted writer and director he truly is.
International Business Times Monica Castillo Shyamalan's return to horror is a return to the genre he knows and operates best in.
The Playlist Nick Schager Shyamalan has recaptured his knack for tackling big subjects through nimbly formulated genre stories.
Flavorwire Jason Bailey M. Night Shyamalan made another good movie, and I'm as surprised as you are.
BuzzFeed News Alison Willmore The Visit is a pleasant surprise.
New Yorker Richard Brody For all its intelligence and craft, M. Night Shyamalan's foray into the genre of found-footage horror has the feeling of homework done well.
The Atlantic Christopher Orr It is with some surprise-and perhaps even a hint of disappointment-that I must report that The Visit is merely mediocre and not the breathtaking calamity that we've come to anticipate from its author.
Grantland Wesley Morris It was fun watching this with a gasping and screaming audience. For horror-goers, the comparative competence must hit the spot. But there's nothing new here -- and what I sensed for 94 minutes was compromise.
New York Magazine/Vulture David Edelstein An unoriginal faux-doc horror picture that actually works like a demonic charm.
New York Times Manohla Dargis The director M. Night Shyamalan has a fine eye and a nice, natural way with actors, and he has a talent for gently rap-rap-rapping on your nerves.
Seattle Times Moira MacDonald It's creepy, sure, but not very enjoyable, basement or no.
New York Daily News Peter Hall A messed-up fairy tale that often nails the sweet spot between scaring us and letting us laugh at how scared we are. It's crowd-pleasing horror, the kind that can push moviegoers to the edge of their seats and send them to the water cooler the next day.
Los Angeles Times Michael Sragow The honorable tradition of American moviemakers wringing laughs and gasps from bucolic lunatics dates back to "Murder, He Says" (1945). Unfortunately, "The Visit" isn't part of it.
Boston Globe Tom Russo A relentlessly tense journey into the bizarre, with jolts that linger and some nicely played melancholy. What's more, the movie is often surprisingly, wickedly funny ...
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea Isn't the whole handheld "real-video" thing kind of old by now? Isn't the Shyamalanian-twist thing kind of old by now, too?
Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis Suffice to say that the result is an effective scare machine and a semi-return to form for its creator.
USA Today Brian Truitt The low-budget thriller deftly mixes horror-movie moments, pure strangeness and comedy like a family-friendly David Lynch effort as it takes audiences on one really oddball trip to grandma's house.
New York Post Sara Stewart Dunagan and McRobbie have a blast in their respective roles, alternating between everyday grandparent oddities and behavior that wouldn't be out of place at the Overlook Hotel. And overall, the young duo makes an affable pair of narrators.

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How Air-Conditioning Conquered America

Indoor cooling has transformed american life, reshaping homes, skylines and where people choose to live. as the planet warms, is that sustainable.

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From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.”

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Today, the story of how air conditioning has become both our answer to a warming planet and a major obstacle to actually confronting it. My colleague, Emily Badger, on the increasingly dangerous paradox of trying to control the temperature.

It’s Friday, August 16.

Emily, I want to start with a very personal question for you. What is your relationship to air conditioning?

So, at this exact moment, I am sitting in no air conditioning and it is kind of uncomfortable. And I’ve turned it off because it’s loud and it’s not very conducive to recording a podcast.

[CHUCKLES]: I didn’t mean right now, I meant in the larger arc of your life. But thank you for turning it off for the purposes of this episode.

Yeah. So I grew up in Chicago in this brick three flat apartment building, this very classic Chicago architecture, you know, built in the early 1900s. And it didn’t have air conditioning, so I didn’t have air conditioning growing up. Hardly anybody I knew had air conditioning growing up because we all lived in buildings like this.

Not even window units, just didn’t happen.

Nope, we didn’t even have a window unit in my family. And it wasn’t that big of a deal, in retrospect. We had, in this apartment, these big open windows that you could open and you’d generate a cross breeze through them. And there’s this kind of lovely breeze that comes off of Lake Michigan in the summer. And when it gets really, really hot, you know, you take a cold shower at night before you get in bed. You eat a lot of ice cream.

I can’t even remember if we had air conditioning in the schools that I went to. But it just wasn’t something that I thought very much about or really even experienced very much.

Right. You didn’t miss it. You didn’t even know it could be.

Yeah, exactly.

And then, the first job that I got out of college, I moved to Orlando, and totally different environment. I mean, living in Florida is the story of moving from one air conditioned box into another. You’re in your air conditioned apartment. You get in your air conditioned car. You don’t walk anywhere. You drive everywhere you go. You drive to your air conditioned office. You go to air conditioned bars. And it’s a really, really integral to life there in a way that was very foreign to me as someone growing up in the North.

So you went from a dearth of air conditioning to suddenly being saturated by it. And was that a happy development?

You know, I don’t think that I really gave it that much thought. I mean, living in Orlando surrounded by air conditioning, it’s just sort of that’s the air that you breathe. That’s the way everyone lives. And I think this is probably true for lots of people. We don’t really give it a lot of thought. It’s just sort of a background part of our environment.

But as I have written for years now about urban policy in cities, and how we live, and how we develop cities, it’s sort of become increasingly clear to me that air conditioning is this incredibly important thing that is shaping everything around us. You know, it’s shaping where Americans live, where they choose to move to. It shapes how our houses look. It shapes what our skylines look like. It’s responsible for saving lives and heat waves. In many ways, it’s really improved our quality of life.

But it’s increasingly clear to us that there are some downsides to this. And one of those downsides is that while we’re all sitting in our air conditioned homes, and offices, and cars, and we’ve set the thermostat to exactly 72 degrees, we’re becoming increasingly detached from what’s happening in the environment outside. It is a lot easier to ignore that it’s 100 degrees outside when you’re sitting inside air conditioning.

And, in some ways, I think we have forgotten how to live with heat. We have forgotten how to live with the climate as it existed before air conditioning. And having forgotten that, it’s probably going to cause some problems for us going forward.

Well, Emily, what did the American landscape look like when people did have to contend with the heat in the days before air conditioning?

So I think about two big things in particular. One is that the buildings that we spend time in looked different. We designed houses and other kinds of buildings in ways that were really sort of thoughtfully trying to contend with the temperature outside.

And so you’ve got these buildings in the Southwest in the United States that have these thick Adobe walls that do a really good job of keeping the sun and its heat out. You’ve got these cottages and bungalows in the Southeast that are raised up off the ground so that they’re not receiving the heat that’s absorbed by the Earth.

They’ve got big windows. They’re thinking a lot about cross ventilation. They’ve got high ceilings so that, as heat rises inside your home, you’re not marinating in it while you’re sitting in your living room. They’ve got front porches where people sit at the end of the day in order to try to cool off.

And then you’ve got the building like the one I grew up in, in Chicago, which I mentioned — these sort of thick brick masonry buildings, which are also designed in a way that is making it possible for me to grow up in the 1980s and ‘90s and be OK with the fact that I don’t have air conditioning.

Because brick kind of retains cool air.

Right. Right. And so part of what results from all of this is that the buildings in Georgia look different from the buildings in Arizona, look different from the buildings in Chicago. Because in each of those places, we’re designing buildings that react to the particular climate in those environments. And so this is the first big change.

Think of a time when you have to design a building to interact with what’s going on outside, with how humid it is, with how hot it gets. But the other thing that was very different in the pre-air conditioning environment is that there were just a lot fewer people living in the parts of the United States that were really hot and swampy. So it’s kind of incredible to think about it, but 1940, there are fewer people living in the state of Florida than living in the state of Arkansas.

There are about 8,000 people total living in the city of Las Vegas. Dallas and Houston are nowhere to be found on the list of the largest cities in America. So fundamentally, before air conditioning, there just aren’t a lot of people living in places where it is uncomfortable if you’re not controlling the temperature in some way.

Right. If it’s too hot, then you just don’t live there.

Right. So climate shapes your decisions about where to live. It shapes your decisions about how to build housing. It shapes your decisions about where to spend your time and your house. Maybe you go onto your front porch in the evening when it’s cooling down. You know, in many ways, our behavior is shaped by the climate. And then air conditioning comes along and it totally changes everything that I’ve been talking about. Because now the outdoor climate doesn’t really affect what your life is like indoors.

Just tell us about that moment, because I don’t think any of us really know the story.

Yeah. So there have been contraptions invented in the 1900s that were trying to do things like blow forced air over big blocks of ice in order to cool it. But the thing that we really think of as air conditioning is just totally a 20th century story.

It starts at the very beginning of the 20th century in 1902, when Willis Carrier invents this machine that’s kind of controlling the temperature, and the humidity, and the purity of air, particularly in an industrial context. The very first use of this in 1902 is in a printing plant, and fundamentally the problem that it’s solving is that the moisture content in the air is really becoming a problem for printing documents.

You’re saying basically, publishing, journalism is responsible for air conditioning.

Yes, everybody can thank us and then later they can blame us.

And so, in the beginning, what air conditioning is doing is it’s solving an industrial problem. The machines are hot, or maybe it’s a textile mill and too much humidity is sort of destroying your textiles. And also, you want your workers to be productive in these manufacturing spaces.

Lots of people in a small space with hot machines. Right.

Yeah. And so in the very beginning of the 20th century, it’s not about providing comfort for people. It’s about conditioning the environments that manufacturing and industry is having. And then it is this very sort of long story that plays out over several decades, where this invention moves from these industrial spaces into these other kinds of spaces.

Yes, you lucky people. Just sit back for a moment, relax, and notice the delightfully clean, cool, and refreshing atmosphere of this scientifically air conditioned theater. Great, isn’t it?

So then it comes into theaters and becomes almost this marketing tool to attract people inside.

You can enjoy great motion picture entertainment all summer long in cool comfort.

Go see a movie and enjoy air conditioning while you’re in there.

Yes, low-cost all-season air conditioning is the right kind for you. And you’re so right to choose a ‘55 Rambler Cross Country, now at all dealers.

And then, at the same time, cars in America that have air conditioning in them — the share of those cars is rising and rising. It moves into office buildings.

Instead of traveling away from business and home to seek relief, you can obtain this same comfort right in your own home or office through air conditioning.

And then, eventually, after decades of refining this technology, and it gets smaller, and it gets more affordable, and it becomes more advanced —

This lucky baby will sleep quietly through the night.

— it reaches the American home and we get the window unit.

This baby’s RCA air conditioner will keep his room filled with cool, dry, fresh air.

And the window unit is this much more affordable, portable, easy to pick up at the store, bring to your house. You don’t need to get a special installer. You stick it in your window, and now all of a sudden you’re getting all of these benefits of humidity controlled, temperature controlled air inside of your home.

Humidity, controlled, dust and pollen filtered. My indoor climate is always perfect.

At that point it’s off to the races. It takes over the American home. And we can see in census data, for instance, that by about the start of the 1970s, about half of all new single family homes that are built in America have air conditioning in them.

And the other thing that we see in census data at this time is that Americans themselves are starting to move to places that are really hot, like Florida, like Texas, like Arizona, like Nevada, places that are kind of uninhabitable before air conditioning. Now they’re booming in population.

And there was this wonderful editorial that was actually published in “The Times” in 1970 about the census that year, and how 1970 was like, the air conditioning census. And it refers to how air conditioning had become this really powerful influence for circulating people as well as air in this country.

And this is a story that continues right up until this day, where air conditioning is sort of extending its reach into every corner of the country, every sort of housing type. And today, about 2/3 of American households in this country have central air, and about 90 percent, so 9 in 10 of them, have some kind of error conditioning if we include things like window units. And if we look just at New housing that’s built in America today, looking back in 2023, about 98 percent of new single family homes in America had air conditioning.

What you’re talking about is basically 200 or so million air conditioning units, condensers, boxes. That’s a lot.

Yeah. And as air conditioning has extended its reach into every corner of the country, into so many of the buildings where we spend time, I think it becomes clear that we’ve really kind of engineered our modern lives entirely around it.

And our reliance on this technology going forward is both unsustainable, and in fact, it’s put a lot of people in a very vulnerable position.

We’ll be right back.

Emily, walk us through how our reliance on air conditioning is both, as you just said, unsustainable and perhaps even kind of dangerous to us.

So the first obvious thing that it does is it just requires an enormous amount of energy for so many people to be air conditioning so many spaces all the time. And so to think about this in a larger sense, our buildings in the United States are responsible for about 30 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions. And that refers to the fossil fuels that we burn directly to heat and cool buildings, and to cook in them, but also to generate the electricity that then allows us to do things plug in our window units.

So there’s a ton of energy use happening here. But part of what’s also happening is that all of these buildings have been fundamentally designed to consume lots of energy. A lot of these buildings were built during a time, you know, in the ‘50s and the ‘60s and in more recent years, where energy was cheap. The idea that you’re designing a building that demands lots of energy — who cares? We’re not paying a ton of money for the energy.

And in the ‘60s and in the ‘50s, we weren’t particularly thinking about whether or not using energy is going to cause climate change. So because of this, we get this glut of inefficient houses. And this happens not just with houses, but with everything in the built environment.

Think about strip malls, shopping centers, workplaces, even offices — the sort of ubiquitous, tall, boxy, glass-covered office building that we think about in cities all over the country, all over the world — this is a building that is born out of the air conditioning age. That glassy box is designed around air conditioning such that without air conditioning, those kinds of offices don’t make sense.

Right. I’m thinking about the office that you and I call home, the “New York Times” high-rise building in Midtown. That does not feel, for all its virtues, like a building, you’d want to be in without air conditioning.

It’s glass, and tall, and I think it’d be very hot.

Yeah. When you think about tall glass office buildings, they’re basically greenhouses if you’re not controlling the air inside. They’re designed such that not only do you not have to open a window in order to cool off, you couldn’t open a window even if you wanted to. These buildings don’t have windows that open, because they’re designed to be these hermetically sealed environments where we’re going to keep the outside climate out and we’re going to control the climate on the inside. And this idea that the outside doesn’t matter is true in the design of so many of our buildings, our offices, even our homes. And that actually puts people into an incredibly vulnerable situation.

And vulnerable how, exactly?

So let’s assume a storm comes through and the power goes out, or your air conditioning stops working because you’ve been running it all the time, all summer long, or when we have these extreme heat conditions and the electric utility tells you, please try to preserve the amount of air conditioning that you’re using. What happens when, all of a sudden, millions of people who have been living in an environment designed entirely around air conditioning can’t have that air conditioning? We start to see real problems.

And this is an abstract. We have actually seen this happen in the United States even this year, in other recent years, where terrible storms have ripped through the state of Texas and millions of people have been left without power. And when this happens in the middle of a heat wave, people die.

Right. And that seems an example of the multiple ways that air conditioning conspires to make us avoid contending with the realities of heat to return to this idea you introduced earlier on. AC allows more people to go to a place like Texas than they’d ever go if there weren’t AC making them comfortable, and to design and live in homes and offices that become a cauldron without air conditioning when it fails.

Exactly. Air conditioning makes it possible for people to believe that you could be comfortable in Texas in the summer, in Arizona in the summer. And so people move to these places in large numbers. And then, when the air conditioning fails, they’re sort of suddenly thrust into a world where they’re living in the middle of the Arizona desert or they’re living in the middle of Texas on a 110 degree day. And that could be life threatening.

Especially with climate change making it even hotter in these places, it doesn’t really seem sustainable for a lot of people to live in those places without air conditioning, without some kind of artificial tempering of the environment.

Yeah. And it’s not just because of the heat. I mean, is it sustainable for a Metropolitan area of 5 million people to exist in Phoenix in the middle of the desert when there’s also not enough water there for everyone? So air conditioning sort of lulls people into moving to these places, which might be problematic for lots of other reasons, as well. But we’ve sort of convinced ourselves that the climate doesn’t matter. We’re going to control it. We’re going to engineer our way into living with it.

You’re reminding me, Emily, of an episode we did on the show about this very idea. It focused on the water shortage in Arizona and the plans to pipe in — and, as I recall, desalinate ocean water — to deal with the problem of not enough water in Arizona. And it doesn’t really seem fathomable that proposition would ever occur to people if they weren’t living there in the comfort of air conditioning in the first place.

Yeah. So there have been people living in the region of Phoenix for centuries, so it’s not that nobody can ever live there. But what air conditioning does is it enables millions of people to live there who don’t actually want to contend with 100 degree temperatures all summer long. So a place like Phoenix then becomes this perfect example where we now have 5 million people living in the middle of the Arizona desert, and they all have this expectation of comfort there, that any environment that I move into — in my home, in my office, in my car — I should be encased in this cooling, calm, 72 degree humidity controlled environment. And that sense of comfort becomes so deeply entrenched kind of culturally. And this isn’t just about Phoenix. This is about all of us. I think we have set up an expectation or even an entitlement around comfort such that it makes it really difficult to start to ask people, do you really need to turn up your air conditioning today?

So that makes me wonder how people are ever going to get off the air conditioning hamster wheel that we’re describing here. I mean, why would anyone?

Well, we have to figure out how to do something if we want to address climate change. So there are a number of different things that are going to happen here. Air conditioning is going to become more efficient. We’re going to have more renewable energy sources to power it in the future. And I think we’re increasingly going to see architects and builders trying to rediscover these lost ideas that we used to have about how to design buildings with the climate in mind, how to shade them, how to ventilate them in a more natural way.

But I also have talked to some people who say that all of that is not going to be enough. One of them is Daniel Barber, who’s an architectural historian who has thought a lot about life after air conditioning or, as he puts it, after comfort — life in a world where we’re not depending on air conditioning so much. And the point that he makes is that there are difficult things and changes that we would have to do going forward if we know that our buildings are responsible for a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.

Our dependence on air conditioning is responsible for a large share of that, and we have to reduce it in some way. What we all need to do is change our own behavior. We need to think anew about our relationship to comfort. And are we willing to be uncomfortable some of the time? Am I willing to wait until July to turn my air conditioning on? Am I willing to turn it off at night when it’s not really necessary to use it? Am I willing to sleep at 80 degrees instead of 72 degrees?

Or 68 or 65. And he’s talking about asking people to do something really difficult. He is asking people to be uncomfortable.

You are, of course, by conveying this message, putting this problem on individuals, not governments, not states. And lots of people might hear this and think the real solutions have to come from regulators, have to come from institutions, have to come from the people who have a lot more control over how this all works.

I think that there are some ways in which that will happen, too. When we think about new buildings that are being designed or renovated today that are trying to adopt some of these techniques to be less reliant on indoor air conditioning. They’re often institutional buildings you will see cities commit to when we rebuild our schools, when we build a new library, when we build a new civic center, we are going to embody these things that we are asking other people to do, too.

And, obviously, there are government incentives in the United states, for instance, to better insulate your home, to do things that would make your home greener. So there’s certainly a role for government. But what Daniel Barber at least would argue is that we all bear some responsibility. And air conditioning has lulled us into thinking that we’re not impacted by how hot it is outside. But it’s also maybe lulled us into thinking like, I’m not the one who needs to particularly change my behavior in any way.

But, fundamentally, what we’re talking about is people embracing a kind of different cultural idea about what it means to be comfortable. The idea that existing in a room that is artificially cooled to 68 to 72 degrees fahrenheit, that that’s the ideal temperature — that’s not some true fact about the human body. It’s a cultural idea that’s been created over decades by the air conditioning industry, by architects, and builders, and culture, and shopping malls, and movie theaters. And the idea that comfort means this one particular thing is an idea that we have constructed ourselves. And so what if we culturally came up with a different idea about comfort?

What if more people came to accept the idea that going and sitting out on my front porch in the evening is where I get comfort from? And it’s also, by the way, how I interact with my neighbors. And I had stopped doing that when we were all retreating inside to air conditioning. What if we revived the idea that it’s actually quite lovely in the summertime to sleep with an open window and to have fresh air? It’s not impossible to change ideas about this because we created these ideas in the first place.

Well, Emily, thank you very much. We really appreciate it.

Yeah. Thanks, Michael.

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James Marsden, Tom Butler, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Tony McCarthy, Andy M Milligan, LeChristopher Williams, Nathan Hall, Amedeo Fedeli, James Wright, Jorma Taccone, Tika Sumpter, James Wolk, Ben Schwartz, Sofia Pernas, Lee Majdoub, Dempsey Gibson, Stuart Whelan, Alfredo Tavares, and Joshmaine Joseph in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

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Trivia The film makers of the prior movies have mentioned playing both "Sonic Adventure 2" and the "Shadow The Hedgehog" solo game for inspiration. The film is also inspired by narrative elements from the Saturday morning animated television series "Sonic the Hedgehog" (1993 - 1994).
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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. Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Writer: M. Night Shyamalan. Cast: Olivia DeJonge as Rebecca Jamison. Ed Oxenbould as Tyler Jamison. Kathryn Hahn as Paula Jamison.
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We review the 2015 movie The Visit, which does not contain any significant spoilers. M. Night Shyamalan is back - and he really snuck this one in under the radar.The Visit adopts the found footage form of storytelling - a change from Shyamalan's usual style, though bearing obvious marks of his directorial and writing styles throughout nonetheless - and introduces this horror - akin ...
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