Watch the creepy first trailer for The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan's micro-budget comeback movie

It's no great secret that M. Night Shyamalan's career has seen better days. After propelling himself to the top of Hollywood with The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan's career has been on a steady critical and commercial downslide. But the failure of his critically derided blockbusters The Last Airbender and After Earth may have been just the wake-up call Shyamalan needed; his next movie, The Visit, is a stripped-down, micro-budget return to his horror roots:

The Visit follows a pair of young kids who take an extended trip to their grandparents' house. Everything is fine until 9:30 p.m., when the children have been strictly ordered not to leave their rooms; when they do, it becomes clear that something is seriously, terrifyingly wrong with their grandparents.

It's an intriguing, refreshingly intimate movie for Shyamalan — but will audiences be willing to trust him again? We'll find out when The Visit hits theaters in September.

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