There aren’t many filmmakers as wildly inconsistent as M. Night Shyamalan.
Entering the film industry in the early 1990s, Shyamalan quickly earned a reputation as the dramatic successor to Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock – a creative juggernaut known for his impressive genre work and the famously shocking twist endings to his films. By the mid 2000s, however, Shyamalan’s directorial esteem started to significantly wane, leading to such universally panned disappointments as The Happening...