M. Night Shyamalan's Career-Saving Horror Hit Gets Overtaken by ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ at the Box Office

After a string of box office bombs in the early 2010s, director M. Night Shyamalan was forced to go back to the drawing board. He decided that the best way forward would be to step back from the big-budget films he'd been making, and to self-finance a small-budget project that would take him back to his horror roots. He made the inventive film The Visit , which emerged as a major hit, and, more importantly, received the kind of reviews that had eluded him for years. In the decade since, Shyamalan has helmed a string of hits, including a handful of bona fide blockbusters. The Visit was the movie that turned things around for him, and re-established him as the filmmaker he was initially expected to be. But the horror movie landscape has changed massively in the last decade, and