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Apr 11, 2008 · Danai Gurira. Zainab. Maggie Moore. Karen. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. When professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) travels to New York for a lecture, he's stunned to find illegal...
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- Tom Mccarthy
- PG-13
- Richard Jenkins
- Nothing but a forgettable horror tourist trap.
- What’s your favorite folk horror film?
- Verdict
By Matt Donato
Updated: Oct 7, 2022 4:54 pm
Posted: Oct 7, 2022 3:30 pm
The Visitor will be available on digital and On Demand on Oct. 7, and on EPIX December 2022.
Reviews for middle-of-the-road purgatories like Justin P. Lange's The Visitor are the most challenging critiques to tackle. When you adore or loathe a movie, the words flow. Then there are the forgettable to frustrating titles like The Visitor that are competently shot, yet the storytelling leaves you disappointed, like being fed Cracker Barrel instead of grandma's down-home cooking. Simon Boyes and Adam Mason's screenplay about a rural bloodline, the husband who sees his doppelganger in paintings, and the mystery that never excites is dustier than attic storage boxes. Lange initially drew attention for directing 2018's The Dark, but horrific accomplishments do not repeat in his third whisper of a genre feature.
Ol' Iron Fist himself Finn Jones stars as Robert, a British immigrant who moves to his American wife Maia's (Jessica McNamee) vacant childhood home. While rummaging through remaining family heirlooms, Robert finds a portrait of a man who looks identical to himself. As Maia trots Robert around town like a show pony, most everyone provides warm welcomes — others mutter cryptic messages for only Robert's ears. Little by little, Maia's idyllic home on the prairie becomes Robert's source of discomfort as more paintings with his likeness appear. The suspense might be slowly killing Robert as his paranoia intensifies, but it's not a shared experience with us, the audience.
The Visitor is dryer than a folktale horror tumbleweed. Director Justin P. Lange ponders questions about decided fates and inescapable histories through confederate artwork or photographs with deceased dictators, but nothing equates to much excitement on-screen. The underutilization of Jessica McNamee is a sin, while Finn Jones goes on an underwhel...
- Matt Donato
Oct 7, 2022 · Creepy graphic violence, drinking in clichéd horror movie. Read Common Sense Media's The Visitor (2022) review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Finn Jones, Jessica Mcnamee, Dane Rhodes
- Justin P. Lange
- Paramount+
Feb 18, 2024 · Bruce LaBruce returns with the characteristically provocative satire "The Visitor," which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Echo Burning. The Visitor is the fourth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in 2000 by Bantam Press in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the book was released under the title Running Blind. It is written in the second and third person.
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The Visitor ( Italian: Stridulum) is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise) and based on a story by Egyptian-born Italian writer and producer Ovidio G. Assonitis.
