The Visit is a 2015 American "found footage" style horror-fantasy written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and produced by Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, Steven Schneider, and Ashwin Rajan. The movie revolves around two siblings who visit their distant grandparents. As their visit progresses, they observe increasingly odd behavior from their grandparents and embark on a quest to uncover the reality of the peculiar situation at the homestead.
The film stars Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Peter McRobbie, and Benjamin Kanes. It was released via Universal Pictures on September 11, 2015.
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Two siblings from Philadelphia, Becca and Tyler, are gearing up for a five-day stay with their grandparents while their divorced mother, Loretta, embarks on a cruise with her new partner. Loretta discloses that she hasn't communicated with her parents for 15 years due to her marriage to her high-school teacher, which her parents opposed. The teenagers, who have never met their grandparents, intend to document their visit on video as a documentary project.
Becca and Tyler are greeted by their grandparents, known as "Nana" and "Pop Pop," at a train station. Upon arrival at the secluded farmhouse, they are warned to avoid the basement due to mold and to adhere to a 9:30 PM bedtime, staying in their room thereafter. Initially, the grandparents appear friendly, but soon their actions become increasingly strange. One night, Becca, breaking curfew, witnesses Nana violently vomiting. By day, Nana aggressively pursues the children during hide-and-seek. Tyler later discovers a stash of dirty diapers in the shed. In town, Pop Pop confronts a man he suspects of following them. Both grandparents downplay each other's odd behavior when questioned. As their conduct grows more erratic, Becca and Tyler's documentary project shifts into a quest to unravel mysteries and gather proof.
A woman, whom Nana and Pop Pop had assisted in counseling, delivers a blueberry cobbler as a token of gratitude. However, after an altercation, she is not observed departing. Amidst the unfolding oddities, Tyler opts to covertly record the living room overnight. Nevertheless, Nana uncovers the camera and endeavors, albeit futilely, to penetrate the children's secured bedroom wielding a knife.
Upon watching the footage of Nana with the knife, Becca and Tyler video call Loretta and beg her to collect them. They use the laptop camera to show Loretta the odd behavior of her parents, who are outside the house. Upon seeing them, Loretta, distressed, identifies that the couple her children have been staying with are not her parents. Realizing they have been staying with strangers, the teenagers try to escape the house and discover the visitor who went missing hanging from a tree. The "grandparents" find the children and force them to play Yahtzee. Later, Becca sneaks into the basement and finds the decomposed corpses of their real grandparents, along with uniforms from the psychiatric hospital at which they worked, revealing that their "grandparents" are actually escaped patients. Pop Pop grabs Becca and imprisons her in his bedroom with Nana, who tries to attack her in a psychotic fit. He then tortures Tyler by smearing his face with his dirty diaper. Following a struggle, Becca fatally stabs Nana with a glass shard from a broken mirror, then runs to the kitchen and attacks Pop Pop. As Pop Pop gains the upper hand, Tyler knocks him to the floor and kills him by repeatedly bashing his head with the refrigerator door. The teens escape outside, where they are met by their mother and police officers.
After the events, Becca inquires about Loretta's departure from home fifteen years prior. Loretta recalls a severe dispute with her parents, where she struck her mother and was hit back by her father. Subsequently, Loretta chose to leave and disregarded their efforts to reach out. She admits that mending their relationship was always an option if she had desired it. Loretta advises Becca to release any resentment towards her father's desertion, prompting Becca to reconsider and ultimately decide to feature her father in their documentary, despite previously stating she wouldn't.
At home, Tyler lays down a freestyle rap recounting his and Becca's escapade with the impostor grandparents, as Becca watches with approval.
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- Olivia DeJonge as Becca
- Ed Oxenbould as Tyler
- Kathryn Hahn as Loretta Jamison
- Deanna Dunagan as "Nana"\Maria Bella Jamison
- Peter McRobbie as "Pop Pop"\Frederick Spencer Jamison
- Benjamin Kanes as Corin
- Celia Keenan-Bolger as Stacey
- Jon Douglas Rainey, Brian Gildea, Shawn Gonzalez, and Richard Barlow as police
- Erica Lynne Marszalek and Shawn Gonzalez as passengers on a train
- Michael Mariano as a hairy-chested contestant
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