'The Visitor' directed by Justin B. Lange and written by Simon Boyce and Adam Mason, starring Finn Jones, and Jessica McNamee. While 'The Visitor' saves some surprises for its final ten minutes, the film's fatal flaw is that those ten minutes are far more entertaining than those that precede them. Simon Boyes and Adam Mason's screenplay about a rural bloodline, the husband who sees his doppelganger in paintings, and the mystery that never excites is dustier than attic storage boxes.
Finn Jones stars as Robert, a British immigrant who moves into his American wife Mia's, played by Jessica McNamee vacant childhood home. While examining the remaining family heirlooms, Robert discovers a portrait of a man just like him. While Maya parades Robert around like a show pony, most give a warm welcome, others whisper secret messages just for Robert's ear. Little by little, Mia's beautiful house on the prairie makes Robert uncomfortable. The suspense kills Robert as his hallucinations intensify, but this is not a shared experience with us, the audience.
The visitor feels tension early on as Robert is clearly out of town rather than a new face to Mia's community. Mia takes Robert to a local watering hole, where a chronically drunk man drenches Robert in unlabeled moonshine, while an elderly couple all toast Mia and Robert from afar. Director Lange invents basic folk horror tropes, where an unwitting party stumbles into Americana ritual or cult-like territory. Robert always looks like a fish out of water, the visitor is not trying to underestimate the over-enthusiasm of pastors or shopkeepers who regard Robert as the second coming of Christ. These paintings are a puzzle piece that keeps us guessing, and given director Lange's stress on distress, it's not hard to predict what's to come.
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