First Poster Revealed for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit

From Stephen King's chilling 1985 short story, Gramma, and its respective onscreen adaptations—Blumhouse's 2014 film, Mercy, and the 1986 episode of The New Twilight Zone—to R.L. Stine's Don't Ever Get Sick at Granny's and beyond, grandmothers have been the source of unsuspecting scares, and in September, we'll see M. Night Shyamalan’s take on what can go wrong at grandma's house with The Visit. The upcoming film from the director of Signs and The Sixth Sense is teased in a new, homemade horror poster.

A Blumhouse Productions film from Universal Pictures, M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit is slated for a September 11th release. A somewhat secretive movie that Shyamalan self-financed, wrote and directed, The Visit was filmed on and near his Pennsylvania property without any big studio involvement.

After shooting commenced, Shyamalan made a deal with Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions, which last summer signed a 10-year extension of their first-look arrangement with Universal. The folks at Universal liked what they saw and picked up worldwide distribution rights for the film. The first trailer for The Visit is expected to make its online debut later this week, and we'll be sure to share it right here on Daily Dead.

"The Visit focuses on a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day."

The last time Shyamalan worked with Universal was when the company released the elevator-set film Devil (2010), which was directed by John Erick Dowdle and produced by Shyamalan, whose work can be seen on the small screen this May on Fox's Wayward Pines, a TV series based on the novel, Pines, by Blake Crouch. Shyamalan executive produces the series and also directed the pilot episode.