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M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VISIT Trailer Attached To UNFRIENDED; First Poster In Theaters
While the DC Comics and Marvel camps were celebrating the new STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE trailers, audiences were treated to a coming attraction of another kind this weekend.
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions quietly released the first trailer and poster of M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming horror movie THE VISIT into theaters on Thursday attached to the prints of UNFRIENDED.
Scheduled for a September 11 release, the film (originally titled Sundowning) is from the Oscar-nominated director and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series).
Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister (Ed Oxenbould and Olivia De Jonge) who are sent to their grandparents’ remote and pastoral Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip by Mom, Kathryn Hahn.
In the chilling trailer, things appear normal until the children discover that Nana and Papa (Peter McRobbie and Deanna Dunagan) are involved in something deeply disturbing. They’re even warned not to come out of their room past 9:30 at night.
Once they see their chances of getting back home growing smaller every day, they plead with Mom online to come and rescue them.
No Shyamalan trailer would be complete without the words appearing on the screen and in red, “From the writer and director of THE SIXTH SENSE, UNBREAKABLE, THE VILLAGE, SIGNS.”
Neither of our St. Louis screenings of UNFRIENDED had this teaser attached. Ever the flag waving, Shyamalan cheerleader that I am, I went to a few of the local cinemas to get crowd reactions. With its quick jump cut edits and blaring sounds, the enthusiastic remarks ranged from “how scary,” to “that’s creepy,” to my favorite from a whispering teenager in the row behind me, “I’m not going to my grandparents anymore.”
When the trailer turns progressively darker, the audience shrieked when Grandma stoically asks, “Would you mind getting inside the oven to clean it?”
Complete with a list of rules, the first poster is reminiscent of the original teaser one used for THE VILLAGE. Even the teens working at the theater thought both the haunting trailer and blood stained poster were eerie.
Shyamalan and Blumhouse were on Twitter looking for moviegoers’ reactions and to let fans know that the official trailer would be released online this coming week.
It’ll be online next week! “@mrdavesim: @MNightShyamalan where’s this trailer for The Visit people are taking about?? I want in!”
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April 18, 2015
Who saw a trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VISIT before UNFRIENDED? What did you think of what you saw? — Blumhouse (@blumhouse) April 18, 2015
Rated PG-13, Shyamalan produces THE VISIT through his Blinding Edge Pictures, while Blum produces through his Blumhouse Productions alongside Mark Bienstock (Quarantine 2: Terminal). Steven Schneider (Insidious) and Ashwin Rajan (Devil) executive produce the thriller.
Until the trailer comes online next week, I’ll be watching UNBREAKABLE and LADY IN THE WATER.
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