‘Old’ Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan Invites You To His Latest Twisted Horror Movie
M. Night Shyamalanis back, and he’s inviting you on a beach getaway! Surely nothing will go wrong, and there will absolutely be no twists to worry about. Maybe. Shyamalan’s latest isOld, a film inspired by the graphic novelSandcastle, where things go very wrong and get very weird for a group of people on a secluded, idyllic beach. Watch theOldtrailer below.
Old Trailer
The latest film from M. Night Shyamalan is a departure of sorts, at least in terms of setting. Shyamalan usually makes material that sticks close to his hometown of Philadelphia. He’s left the Philly region before, of course, with films likeThe Last AirbenderandAfter Earth, and now he’s doing it again withOld, a movie that he shot in the Dominican Republic. In fact,Oldis Shyamalan’s first film shot entirely outside of Greater Philadelphia.
Oldis inspired by the graphic novelSandcastle, written by Pierre Oscar Levy and illustrated by Frederik Peeters. The film isn’t a straightforward adaptation of the comic, but here’s the book’s synopsis regardless:
But this utopia hides a dark secret.
First there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water.
Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. Soon everybody is growing older?every half hour?and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery.
And here’s the movie’s synopsis:
This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly … reducing their entire lives into a single day.
The filmmaker has assembled a very impressive cast here, includingGael García Bernal,Eliza Scanlen,Thomasin McKenzie,Aaron Pierre,Alex Wolff,Vicky Krieps,Abbey Lee,Embeth Davidtz, andRufus Sewell. I’m particularly excited to see Vicky Krieps again – after her great work inPhantom Thread, I expected her career to blow up, but she’s been oddly low-key since then.
I remain a Shyamalan fan. I pride myself on the fact that I stuck with the filmmaker even when many gave up on him – I thinkThe Village, a film that seemed to signal the beginning of his downfall, is actually one of his best films. So I was thrilled when the director had something of a comeback, starting with the fun found-footage horror flickThe Visitand continuing withSplit.Split, of course, set up a long-awaited sequel toUnbreakable– and that sequel wasGlass. And while I’m still a Shyamalan fan, and am excited to seeOld, I thoughtGlasswas a major disappointment. Fingers crossed that it was just a weird misfire and that he’ll bounce back nicely with this movie.
