The Visit & 23 More Great Horror Films About Crazy Family Members

With M. Night Shayamalan’s The Visit opening today, his take on creepy, murderous grandparents terrifying the grandkids, we thought to take a look at movies that explore the most horrifying horror of all: family horror.

Horrible Hubbies and Dastardly Dads:

Do husbands really have to try so hard to make their wives go nuts? In Gaslight they do. Gaslight (1940 British version,

M. Night Shyamalan’s Surprising Choices While Making The Visit

Much has been made about the odyssey of M. Night Shyamalan’s film career. He had one of the most explosive debuts in modern film history, bursting onto the scene with The Sixth Sense, his 1999 blockbuster that resonated with audiences and had that incredible twist ending. The twist ending became the young director's hallmark, as would his ability to make intimate, uncannily creepy films. He followed The Sixth Sense up with two more hits—his ordinary man who is actually a superhero film, 

Who Freaks You Out More: these Grandparents, these Aliens, or Johnny Depp?

Three new trailers with very different sources of extreme tension. So the question we pose to you today is this; who would you rather be trapped in a house with less, the grandparents from M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming The Visit, Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger from the upcoming Black Mass, or whatever the hell those things are in Area 51?

Let's take a look:

The Visit

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