Willistown filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is notorious for his iconic plot twists, writes Amy Nicholson for The New York Times.

His latest flick, Knock at the Cabin, has audiences expecting the infamous curveball.  

When Shyamalan, who grew up in Penn Valley, started studying film, he realized he needed to find his own voice. His award-winning film The Sixth Sense is engraved in cinematic history for its iconic “I see dead people” line. It cemented Shyamalan’s reputation as a filmmaker.  

However, some ‘plot points’ in Shyamalan’s perspective were deemed as ‘lame twists’ by the audiences, for example, the aliens in Bucks County-filmed Signs being allergic to water.  

Despite this, his films still did well at the box office, until his four-year slump between 2006-2010. His films The Visit, Split, and Glass were all self-financed.  

Read more about this Willistown filmmaker in The New York Times.  

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