![]() Who has time to distract themselves from the ravages of decay when it’ll be here by dinner?Īnd yet, that is not the movie Shyamalan made. This is a film where once you step foot on a mythical beach, you will live a lifetime in a day. By adapting a graphic novel called Sandcastle by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters, Shyamalan is attempting to prevent us from looking away. Which is why, on paper, Old should be terrifying. ![]() ![]() It can often be ignored or compartmentalized, but it finds you in the end. Like the ticking clock inside Peter Pan’s crocodile, time has stalked every creature on this planet to their inevitable doom. Yet in his latest effort, the cryptically titled Old, the storyteller attempts to wrap his arms around the greatest terror of all: time itself. ![]() Night Shyamalan has left his unmistakable stamp on some of our culture’s most primal fears: ghosts, beings from another world, and even unnamed monsters in the woods. ![]()
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