The Visit

Main Plot

In "The Visit," directed by M. Night Shyamalan, two siblings, Becca and Tyler, embark on a week-long trip to stay with their grandparents, whom they have never met due to a long-standing family estrangement. The children's mother sends them off to her parents' remote Pennsylvania farm to allow her children to form a relationship with their grandparents and to give herself some time for a cruise with her boyfriend. Aspiring filmmaker Becca decides to document the experience in hopes of creating a family documentary. Upon arrival, the siblings are initially charmed by their grandparents' quaint farmhouse and seemingly idyllic rural life. However, the charm soon gives way to unease as the grandparents begin exhibiting increasingly strange and disturbing behavior, particularly at night. As the week progresses, Becca and Tyler are drawn into a series of unsettling discoveries that reveal alarming secrets about their family's past. The tension escalates as they uncover the dark truth behind their grandparents' odd actions, leading to a shocking and terrifying conclusion.

Characters

• Olivia DeJonge plays Becca, a young filmmaker who, alongside her brother, visits their grandparents, uncovering disturbing secrets about their family.
• Ed Oxenbould plays Tyler, a young boy who, alongside his sister, visits their grandparents, uncovering disturbing secrets about their family.
• Deanna Dunagan plays the grandmother, whose strange and disturbing behavior becomes central to the horror and mystery experienced by her visiting grandchildren.

Ending Explained

In the conclusion of M. Night Shyamalan's horror film "The Visit," the central twist is revealed, drastically altering the perception of the events throughout the movie. The story follows two siblings, Becca and Tyler, who are visiting their grandparents for the first time. Throughout their stay, they notice increasingly strange and disturbing behavior from their grandparents. As the film progresses, the children's suspicions grow, leading Becca to decide to secretly film a documentary to capture the odd behavior. The climax of the film occurs when the children discover that the elderly couple they have been staying with are not their real grandparents. Instead, they are escaped mental patients who killed the children’s actual grandparents and took their place. The film ends with Becca and Tyler managing to escape the impostors after a series of terrifying encounters. They are rescued by their mother, who arrives at the house after realizing the danger when she sees the faces of the real grandparents in a video chat. The movie concludes with the children and their mother embracing, relieved to be safe and together again, while the impostors are presumably dealt with by the authorities.