There haven’t been many filmmakers who can match M. Night Shyamalan in terms of his turbulent career – not so much in terms of quality, but rather the audiences’ constantly yo-yo-ing, love/hate relationship with him. Ignored completely with his debut film Prayer with Anger, he was heralded for his second, 1998’s The Sixth Sense. People flocked to his follow-up, Unbreakable, but by the time The Village revealed its twist in 2004, the masses had tapped out, and two films about wind on the bounce weren’t going to win anybody back. Returning to his lower budget roots with The Visit finally did the trick in 2015, and the love for Split the next year was near universal. A cheeky sequel to Unbreakable was surely going to cap off his renaissance… but no, Glass was far from a smash. While the handful of people with an Apple TV+ subscription seem to be enjoying his first auteured foray into telly with Servant, it’s impossible to tell where the movie-going public are at with their relationship to the filmmaker in 2021, but his new high concept horror, Old, due this summer, has now been unveiled and here at STARBURST we think it looks to have a whole lot of promise. We won’t spoil what Shyamalan has cooked up here before you’ve watch the trailer, but once you’ve cast your eyes over it, let us know whether you’re excited about it over on Twitter @STARBURST_mag

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