Beginning of Shyamalan's decline

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2017)

M. Night Shyamalan returned with a period piece about a village in the late 19th Century plagued by strange creatures in the woods and isolated from other towns. Lucius (Joaquin Phoenix) desires to venture into the town for new cures though the elders forbid it. The community thrives on their innocents and simple nature of living, though every few nights, the creatures arrive to threaten their existence and keep them happy to be safe within their walls.
The Village elders consist of Edward Walker (William Hurt) the leader, Lucius's mother Alice Hunt (Sigourney Weaver), a mourning widower August Nicholson (Brendan Gleeson). The issue of not having proper medicine affects all the members of the community and is a major argument for sending someone to the towns for assistance. One victim of the primitive medicine is Edward's daughter Ivy Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard) who was afflicted with blindness at a young age.
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