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Even when his trademark twist-ending formula wears worrisomely thin as it does in The Village, M. Night Shyamalan is a true showman who knows how to serve up a spookfest. He's derailed this time by a howler of a "surprise" lifted almost directly from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Cliff Robertson that originally aired in 1961. Even if you're unfamiliar with that Rod Serling scenario, you'll have a good chance of guessing the surprise, which ranks well below The Sixth Sense and Signs on Shyamalan's shock-o-meter. That leaves you to appreciate Shyamalan's proven strengths, including a sharp eye for fear-laden compositions, a general sense of unease, delicate handling of fine actors (alas, most of them wasted here, save for Bryce Dallas Howard in a promising debut), and the cautious concealment of his ruse, which in this case involves a 19th-century village that maintains an anxious truce with dreadful creatures that live in the forbidden woods nearby. Will any of this take anyone by genuine surprise? That seems unlikely, since Emperor Shyamalan has clearly lost his clothes in The Village, but it's nice to have him around to scare us, even if he doesn't always succeed. --Jeff Shannon

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Composer: James Newton Howard
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt,
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Stars: Adrien Brody
Publishers: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc
Region: 2
Length :103 minutes
Discs :1
Year Released: 2004
Year Product Released: 2005
Audio: 5.1
Where From:
Rating: 12
Date Added: 1999-01-01
Time Added: 00:00:00

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Special features
# BONUS MATERIAL: DECONSTRUCTING THE VILLAGE REAL ESTATE: The Release of "The Village" (3:30)
# SECRET PASSAGE: The Ending of "The Village" (5:30)
# LANDSCAPING: Mixing, Sound Design, Music and Editing for "The Village" (11:00)
# BRICK BY BRICK: The making of "The Village" (24:00)
# CORNERSTONES: Writing "The Village" (6:30)
# FOUNDATION: The Cast of "The Village" (10:30)
# DELETED SCENES (11:30) Introduced by M. Night Shyamalan Drill August’s Story Pre-Wedding Pipes NIGHT HOME MOVIE (3:15)
# PRODUCTION PHOTO GALLERY