The Visit fails to scare or amuse

THE VISIT is a mediocre horror story that is neither too funny nor too scary.

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THE VISIT is a mediocre horror story that is neither too funny nor too scary.

Clare Tipler, Sports Editor

From the director of the The Sixth Sense, The Visit is a movie about a pair of siblings who go to stay at their grandparents’ rural home to meet them for the first time. This Comedy-Horror film released on Sept. 11 was funny, scary, interesting, and really weird. The footage was all shot by the main characters’ handheld camera as part of a documentary project and followed the grandparents and the kids as they got to know each other. The grandmother was said to have a medical condition where she got agitated at night, so when the kids went to bed, Nana got strange. She clawed on their door and ran around shrieking, but the scariest part was when she shut her granddaughter in the oven. If you are into alternative horror movies, this is a great film but for the casual movie watcher, it was neither too funny nor too scary.