Most people believe old people are sweet and cute, right? Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie from “The Visit” will immensely change your outlook on the elderly.

After 15 years of radio silence between daughter and parents, Becca and Tyler’s grandparents finally reach out. They request that the kids’ mom allow them to visit for a week at their farm in Pennsylvania. The mother is reluctant to allow it, but the children really want to so they convince her.  

Becca, an aspiring movie producer, and Tyler, a young “rapper,” are excited to visit their grandparents and find out more of their mother’s past. A majority of the movie is shown as filmed footage that Becca has captured.

At first everything seems fine and Becca and Tyler find their grandparents to be nice enough. However, on their first night, they start to notice some strange occurrences.

The kids are told that bedtime for their grandparents is 9:30. Not too surprising since they are older. However, it is surprising that anytime the kids leave the room past 9:30, their grandmother is up and doing something beyond weird. Things ranging from aimlessly walking around while throwing up to running around with butcher knives.

Nana isn’t the only one acting strange, though. Pop Pop is paranoid, and he’s hiding something in the shed. Disregarding Becca’s worries over Nana, Pop Pop just tells her that it is best that the kids should just not leave the room past bedtime. As things with Nana continue to escalate, Pop Pop informs Becca that Nana has a condition that causes her to go a bit crazy after sundown. Somehow this information doesn’t really reassure the kids and they began to realize that it would be best if their mother came and picked them as quickly as she could.

The movie is relatively calm except for mild jump scares. That is until the last night that the children are scheduled to spend with Nana and Pop Pop.

A shocking secret quickly causes the night to go downhill fast. The kids’ mother is on her way while they are trying to figure everything out about Nana and Pop Pop. What they discover is quite disturbing and leads to a struggle for life between the grandparents and grandchildren. The movie ends with the children being reunited with their mother. Their mother is also finally ready to tell the kids about why she and her parents were no longer on speaking terms.

Personally, I thought the movie was OK. It wasn’t really the horror movie I was hoping for, but it did have a few intense scenes. The entire movie also had an easy and comical dialogue throughout. It had an interesting story behind it, but it took too long to get going. It wasn’t until near the end that the movie picked up and became a little more nerve-wracking. All in all, though, “The Visit” could definitely make someone question their own grandparents.