M. Night Shyamalan on Split

Director M. Night Shyamalan speaks about his 2016 film Split with FLC senior programmer Tyler Wilson. This event took place as part of our retrospective Night at the Movies: An M. Night Shyamalan Retrospective. Learn more: https://www.filmlinc.org/series/night...

M. Night Shyamalan made his boldest creative swerve in years with this unnervingly controlled blend of psychological thriller, gallows humor, and pulp horror. Three teenage girls are abducted by Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man with dissociative identity disorder whose “Horde” of 23 personalities—including the superhuman Beast—begin to surface. As one captive (Anya Taylor-Joy) plots escape, Kevin’s psychiatrist (Betty Buckley) struggles to understand the danger gathering beneath his fractured mind. What could have played as pure exploitation is elevated by tight pacing, Hitchcockian craft, and McAvoy’s explosively virtuosic performance(s) to channel thorny ideas about trauma and fractured identity. A box-office hit and critical turning point for Shyamalan, Split is both a sly callback to Unbreakable and a bold reframe that “twists” the cinematic universe concept with the director’s characteristic sleight of hand.

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