Shyamalan's "Old" plays like a lost Twilight Zone episode

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Writer and director M. Night Shyamalan kicked off the 2020s with his 2021 existential thriller Old , a unique horror movie that was conceptually and thematically among the richest films he’s made. For a director who has toyed with the lightly supernatural before, most notably in his breakout The Sixth Sense and his much-derided 2008 film The Happening , Old lets him work out something very different: a beach that causes rapid aging, forcing a family that’s hiding devastating news from their kids to confront mortality. Like many of Shyamalan’s films, it’s a story of parenthood and coming into contact with the unknown. Based on the French graphic novel Sandcastle , it’s also very odd, reminiscent of one of the greatest television shows of all time.