Oh, spoilery spoilery spoiler

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2012)

I'm spoilering right from the start here, so get over it.
There's this village, see, and you're supposed to think it's late 19th century - they all talk old fashioned and don't have any technology. Oh, and they are apparently isolated by Things We Don't Talk About which live in the woods, with whom they have an uneasy truce. Taciturn Lucius wants to visit the towns for medicines. He gets engaged to blind Ivy, only to be stabbed by nutjob Noah. Ivy is deputed to set off through the woods to get medicine.
The big shock moment - this is M Night Shyamalan, remember - is when Ivy nearly gets run down by a truck: this is actually present day, and the isolation is because the Elders decided to keep their loved ones safe by creating this remote community. And the menacey things are to scare everyone into staying put.
On the plus side, this is moderately atmospheric, has a mild sense of menace, the shock moment works fairly well the first time you see it, and there are some very good performances (notably Adrien Brody as mad idiot Noah).
On the negative side, it takes an age to get moving, the shock moment doesn't stand up to repeat viewings, and one wonders too often about things like where they get the oil for lamps from.
I find myself wondering if I would have made the same comments following a first viewing, and if I hadn't been exposed to the diminishing returns from Shyamalan's movies in the meantime.