Binge Movie Aftertaste – M Night Shyamalan Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Michael Guarnieri: The Visit (2015)

Manoj Nelliyattu, "M. Night" Shyamalan has had one of Hollywood's most interesting stories that could well have come from one of his scripts. After two independent movies which amounted to little success, Shyamalan set the world afire with 1999's The Sixth Sense, which took critics off guard, gathering six Academy Award nominations and rolling to an almost $700 million box office take, making it the most successful horror film all the way until 2017, when It finally knocked it off. But after a financial and critical success such as that, where do you go from there? Join myself, Matt, and the returning Michael Guarnieri as we take the journey to answering that question, which we begin with The Sixth Sense and will eventually lead to Shyamalan's new film Old, scheduled for release this July. After once again failing to set the box office on fire, even with one of the biggest box office draws in the world (Will Smith) at his side with After Earth, M Night Shyamalan was once again at a career crossroads. But just when it seemed every studio wasn't willing to take a chance on another Shyamalan project, enter producer Jason Blum. After having just built his studio using a found footage franchise by the name of Paranormal Activity, it would seem fitting that Blum would bring in Shyamalan to do a movie similar in type. But how would Shyamalan do with yet another genre he wasn't proven in? And would The Visit help him once again enter his long abandoned stratosphere of both critical and audience respectability? Listen in as Matt and I bring Michael Guarnieri back to re-enter the cinematic world of M Night Shyamalan, and Guarnieri once again watches a Shyamalan film for the very first time. The Visit (2015) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10) CLICK ABOVE TO LISTEN NOW! Subscribe to Binge Cast on iTunes