When you start watching the films of M. Night Shyamalan, the writer, director and producer who made a big impact with “The Sixth Sense” and later received mixed reviews for his films, you more or less know what kind of movie you will watch, but you can never guess what you will encounter. Because for his cinema, twists that aim to amaze the audience are indispensable.
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The director’s new movie “Trap” took its place in movie theaters today. The story is about a father and his young daughter who become the center of a dark incident at a concert they attend. An important plot detail, which could be the big surprise of the film, was shared with the audience from the first trailer and made the audience even more curious about what kind of twist the director had prepared for the audience this time.
In “Trap”, for which Shyamalan also wrote the script, Josh Hartnett takes his daughter to the most anticipated concert of the year, but realizes that the concert is a large-scale trap organized to catch a criminal nicknamed the Butcher. Since this criminal is himself, he will have to come up with creative ideas to escape while the authorities try to identify him at every turn.
Shyamalan’s R&B singer-songwriter daughter Saleka Shyamalan plays the concert’s leading lady, Lady Raven, while Hayley Mills, Marnie McPhail, Ariel Donoghue and Allison Pill are also in the cast.
While we eagerly await whether “Trap” will be among the successful films of Shyamalan’s career or one of his flops that received bad reviews from audiences and critics, let’s take a look at the career of the famous filmmaker.
1. The Sixth Sense
1999’s “The Sixth Sense” is Shyamalan’s best known line, “I see dead people.” The movie is remembered with its lines and surprise ending. In the film starring Bruce Willis and the bright child star of the period, Haley Joel Osment, a psychologist who came back from the dead and a little boy who can communicate with spirits form a strange friendship.
2. Unbreakable
“Unbreakable,” a superhero thriller starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, follows David Dunn, who realizes he has superpowers after escaping unscathed from a train accident. Elijah Price, a disabled comic book store owner, manipulates David to understand him and his powers… Coming before the golden age of superhero movies and dealing with the subject in a different tone, this movie is worth watching, especially for fans of Willis and Jackson. .
3. Split
“Split” is a psychological thriller about a man named Kevin, who has multiple personality disorder, who kidnaps three teenage girls and keeps them in his basement. As Kevin’s therapist delves deeper into his unique disorder, the girls must find a way to escape before his more sinister personality emerges… In “Split,” one of Shyamalan’s critically acclaimed films, James McAvoy portrays Kevin with great mastery.
4. Signs
“Signs” is a science fiction-horror movie that came from the mind of Shyamalan, who also wrote the script of the movie. Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mel Gibson, the film is about the struggle for survival of a former priest named Graham Hess with his family, who discovers the shapes left by extraterrestrial beings in the corn field.
5. Glass
2019’s “Glass” is a superhero movie written and directed by Shyamalan. It is also a crossover and sequel to the previous films “Split” and “Unbreakable”. The film is about David Dune, who has superpowers, hunting down a killer with multiple personality disorder who kills young women, and brings together Bruce Willis’s hero and James McAvoy’s Kevin.
6. The Village
Period thriller “The Village” features a phenomenal cast including Bruce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody and more. Revolving around a village living in fear of the creatures living in the surrounding forest (often referred to as “Those We Don’t Talk About”), the film, of course, has its share of Shyamalan’s twists and moves towards a surprise finale.
7. The Visit
“The Visit” is a horror film supposedly based on found footage and follows two younger siblings living with their single mother. Their grandparents want to find and meet their grandchildren online and invite them to their farmhouse during their mother’s holiday. Striking facts quickly come to the surface and it becomes clear that things are not as they seem. This extremely scary movie is one of Shyamalan’s scariest stories.
8. Knock at the Cabin
“Knock on the Cabin”, Shyamalan’s last film before “Trap”, was released in early 2023 and managed to divide critics. The film, which is not one of the director’s famous flops but still received mixed reviews, is about a couple whose holiday turns into hell when four strangers arrive at their door, and stars Jonathan Groof, Ben Aldridge, Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint.
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