The Visit (horror film)

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Movie
German title The Visit
Original title The Visit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director M. Night Shyamalan
script M. Night Shyamalan
production Jason Blum
M. Night Shyamalan
Marc Bienstock
Steven Schneider
music Paul Cantelon
camera Maryse Alberti
cut Luke Franco Ciarrocchi
occupation
synchronization

The Visit is a 2015 American film . Directed by M. Night Shyamalan , who also wrote the script and acted as producer. The film can be assigned to the genre of horror thriller, but is peppered with comedy elements. The premiere was in Dublin, Ireland on August 30, 2015. The film opened in US cinemas on September 11, 2015 and in German cinemas on September 24, 2015.

action

To enable her single mother, Loretta Jamison, to cruise with her new boyfriend, Miguel, their 15-year-old daughter Rebecca and 13-year-old son Tyler accept their grandparents' invitation to spend a week with them in the country. Fifteen years earlier, Loretta had moved from home in an argument about her friend Corin - her former English teacher who is also the father of the two children - and had broken off contact with her parents; she had never responded to attempts at contact. Since they have not yet met their grandparents, Rebecca and Tyler want to record their time together on video. They travel alone by train from Philadelphia to Masonville, Pennsylvania, where Grandma Marja Bella and Grandpa Fredrick Spencer are waiting for them at the train station. In the remote farmhouse of their grandparents, the four quickly get closer and get along well at first.

But the children soon find out that something is wrong with their grandparents. One of their rules is that children are not allowed to leave their room after 9:30 p.m. But when Rebecca tries to sneak into the kitchen the first night to get some biscuits, she observes how the grandmother is vomiting violently. When asked about it the next day, Grandfather tries to calm her down; the grandmother only had a gastrointestinal infection. For his part, the grandfather regularly goes to the barn and leaves it again shortly afterwards. Tyler explores the inside of the barn and discovers a mountain of filled diapers. When asked, the grandmother replies that the grandfather is incontinent , but that he is embarrassed and that he regularly burns the diapers in the field. The incidents get more and more absurd and eerie every day, but the grandparents always find a seemingly reasonable explanation for each other's behavior, so that the situation relaxes again and again.

However, after the children have to recognize when evaluating a video that the grandmother wanted to gain access to the children's room with a kitchen knife the night before, they contact their mother immediately and ask her to pick them up as soon as possible. However, her mother believes the children are overreacting. But when she sees her grandparents via webcam, she is shocked to discover that they are two complete strangers. She asks Rebecca and Tyler to leave the house immediately, but the children are prevented and instead forced to play a board game together. Rebecca escapes under a pretext and goes in search of the actual grandparents she believes trapped in the house. In the basement, which the children were not allowed to enter, she first discovers clothes from a mental hospital, in which the grandparents worked as volunteer carers, and finally the corpses of those. Shortly afterwards she is overwhelmed by the wrong grandfather and locked in the grandparents' bedroom. There she has to fend off an attack by the false grandmother, who is stabbed to death by Rebecca with a shard of a mirror. Then she and Tyler overpower the wrong grandfather. When both children run out of the house, the mother appears with the alarmed police.

In the final scene, Tyler raps humorously about past experiences.

production

The Visit is Shyamalan's lowest budget film and his first found footage film. He kept the filming of his project called Sundowning a secret. The film was shot in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania at a cost of $ 5 million to produce. The Indian filmmaker financed it with his own salary, which he received for his previous film After Earth (2013). After two failed Hollywood productions (including Die Legende von Aang , 2010) he wanted to secure his artistic freedom again and build on his old horror-thriller roots ( The Sixth Sense , 1999).

According to his own statements on Twitter , Shyamalan shot three different film endings: one that is pure comedy, one that is pure horror, and finally one that is a mix of both. During post-production the title was changed to The Visit and Shyamalan was able to win Universal Pictures for international film distribution and distribution.

Film music

The soundtrack to the film includes the following 8 tracks:

synchronization

The German synchronization of The Visit was created in 2015 by RC Production Kunze & Wunder based on a dialogue book by Tobias Neumann and directed by Dennis Schmidt-Foss .

role actor German Dubbing voice
Rebecca Jamison Olivia DeJonge Jamie Lee Blank
Tyler Jamison Ed Oxenbould Oliver Szerkus
Loretta Jamison Kathryn Hahn Katrin Zimmermann
Marja Bella Jamison (grandma) Deanna Dunagan Marianne Gross
Fredrick Spencer Jamison (Grandpa) Peter McRobbie Friedrich Georg Beckhaus
Dr. Sam Patch Darragh Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Stacey Celia Keenan-Bolger Anna Grisebach
Train conductor Samuel Stricklen Leonhard Mahlich

reception

English language reviews

In the United States of America, the critics were average to positive about the film. 64 percent of the 197 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes were benevolent and the Metacritic metascore was 55. The critical consensus at Rotten Tomatoes was: “The Visit provides horror fans with a satisfactory mix of thrills and laughter - and also means a welcome return to old form for director and author M. Night Shyamalan. “The viewer ratings in the Internet Movie Database were average with 6.2 out of 10 points (as of January 27, 2016).

Scherstuhl from the US newspaper Village Voice described Shyamalan's film as a " strange, funny, nasty little thriller " and praised the performance of the actors. He also wrote that The Visit was one of the best horror films in recent years. In the US magazine Forbes , Mendelson said this deliciously creepy and funny film was a " small triumph ". He also wrote: “The Visit is the one we've been waiting for, folks. It's good. Oh my word, is it good. But more importantly, it is excellent in that specific way that reminds us why M. Night Shyamalan was once such a marvel. It is richly humanistic, filled with individually sketched characters that often sparkle with wit and surprising decency. “ Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers noted that the film is not in the same league as The Sixth Sense (1999), but that Shyamalan has ended its long dry spell anyway. The Visit is a cheerful and evil mixture of Grimm fairy tales and found footage horror. In Washington Square News , Audrey Deng thought this was Shyamalan's comeback movie - despite a few weaker moments. The story is " Hansel and Gretel for the 21st century ". Sara Stewart of the New York Post described the film as " simple " and " silly " but well done and extremely effective. And in the New York Times , Manohla Dargis wrote that The Visit was an amusing, grim fairy tale and a Hansel and Gretel for the selfie generation . The cast is " excellent " and the story scores with a " Spielberg family dynamic ".

German-language reviews

On Filmstarts.de, Christoph Petersen described the film as “ little, very mean and […] quite funny screen shocker ”, which boasts an unexpectedly personal touch from the director and a frightening horror grandma. In the film magazine epd film , Birgit Roschy judged that the film was " an unexpected comeback " for the former child director Shyamalan. It is " quite skillful " how he turns the horror genre on its feet. In Quotenmeter Antje Wessels also spoke of a " long-awaited [n] comeback " of the director, which is also a " rip-roaring sweeping blow against unfair and unprofessional film critic was". Daniel Ronel from Bayerischer Rundfunk said that The Visit was " a small and well thought-out horror with funny moments ". The film is not a masterpiece, but Shyamalan should " be on the list after this scary country game ". In the Augsburger Allgemeine , Günther Jekubzik wrote that Shyamalan's film was a “ surprise ”. The plot sounds " unspectacular ", but contains " enough material for an unexpectedly entertaining horror comedy ". And Hans Jürg Zinsli from the Berner Zeitung said that if you as a viewer never know whether to laugh or scream, you as a director have done everything right - and that's exactly what Shyamalan succeeds in with this film. In Die Welt , Thorsten Mumme described The Visit as “a good craftsmanship film [...] that sometimes makes you laugh and be frightened ”.

Michael Ranze, on the other hand, was of the opinion in the specialist magazine Film-dienst that the film was " not funny enough for a comedy, not captivating enough for a horror film, too undemanding and meaningless for" something in between " ". He therefore called The Visit "a failure ". Peter Zander also spoke in the Berliner Morgenpost of “ a strange in-between thing ” - the film wants to be horror and comedy at the same time, but does not achieve both. The Visit is " a tired sixth sense variation for everyone who has lost the sixth sense ". In the pop culture magazine Intro , Dominik Bruns found that Shyamalan's film contained " unsuccessful [...] comedy set pieces [...] " which fortunately largely disappeared towards the end. From then on, The Visit was also “ really solidly staged horror ”, but “ far from a return to the old form ”.

Commercial win

In the USA, The Visit climbed to number two on the US box office chart on its opening weekend with gross revenues of around 25.4 million US dollars, making it the best start for a horror film in the cinema year 2015 (ahead of Insidious: Chapter 3 and Poltergeist , both with 22.6 million US dollars). Despite this good start, Shyamalan's film was narrowly beaten by the thriller The Perfect Guy , which grossed 25.8 million US dollars. Internationally, however, The Visit rose to number two on the charts with revenues of almost $ 30 million - just behind Mission Impossible 5 and three places ahead of The Perfect Guy . As of February 9, 2016, global revenues were approximately $ 98.4 million. The Visit is the most successful horror film of the US cinema year 2015 and the 6 most successful found footage film since statistics began in the USA. Moreover, it is The Visit Shyamalan rentabelster movie: He played 19 times its production cost and thus overtook The Sixth Sense in 1999, which grossed 17 times. From January 10 through January 24, 2016, the film made an additional US $ 4 million through DVD and Blu-ray disc sales.

In Germany, The Visit attracted 135,559 visitors to the cinemas on the opening weekend with 367 copies (from September 24 to September 27, 2015) and thus landed on number three in the charts, behind Fack ju Göhte 2 and Maze Runner - The Chosen in the Fire Desert . A total of 1.15 million euros were collected on the days. In the first week, 158,195 visitors finally saw The Visit , which put the film at number three on the box office. On the second weekend (from October 1 to October 4, 2015) the film was able to record a further 130,000 viewers and was thus again in third place on the cinema charts. After two weeks, The Visit had a total of 327,100 and after the third weekend almost 435,000 viewers. Up until then, around 3.5 million euros had been made in the German box office. In the fourth week, the film fell back to number 10 on the box office and has now had a total of 489,389 viewers since its release - about as many as for Shyamalan's previous film After Earth . Ultimately, 524,584 visitors were counted.

Awards

Ed Oxenbould received a nomination for Best Young Actor at the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2015 for his performance as Tyler Jamison , but lost to Jacob Tremblay ( room ). Deanna Dunagan was named Best Supporting Actress at the Fright Meter Awards . Dunagan received a nomination for her portrayal of grandmother at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards , and Shyamalan herself was nominated in the Best Wide-Release Film category . The film was also nominated for the best horror film of the year at the Golden Schmoes Awards 2015 and the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards 2015.

In addition, The Visit ranks 9th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 10 best horror films of 2015 .

year Award category carrier Result
2016 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Best horror film M. Night Shyamalan Nominated
Best young actress Olivia DeJonge Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Best young actor Ed Oxenbould Nominated
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best movie M. Night Shyamalan Nominated
The best supporting actress Deanna Dunagan Nominated
Golden Raspberry Redeemer price M. Night Shyamalan Nominated
Young Artist Award Best Actress (14-21) Olivia DeJonge Nominated
2015 Fright Meter Awards The best supporting actress Deanna Dunagan Won
Golden Schmoes Award Best horror film M. Night Shyamalan Nominated
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best young actor Ed Oxenbould Nominated
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award Best movie M. Night Shyamalan Nominated

literature

German-language review mirror

positive

negative

Background information

  • Everschor, Franz : Comeback for Shyamalan . In: Film-Dienst 19/2015. P. 27. (background report)
  • Heinrich, Luigi: The horror lurks in every corner . In: Kleine Zeitung from October 1, 2015. (Interview)
  • M. Night Shyamalan . In: Deadline No. 53 September / October 2015. pp. 22–24. (Interview)
  • Orlin, Scott: The Horror of Growing Old . In: Cinema No. 449 10/2015. P. 27. (interview)
  • The Visit . In: Virus No. 67 October / November. Pp. 34-35. (Background report)

Web links

Individual evidence

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