«Grandiloquent nonsense aside, Shyamalan's storytelling tropes are so pronounced that he is ripe for the kind of retrospective appreciation the so - called
vulgar auteurists have brought to filmmakers like John McTiernan.
Its aesthetic influences, which range from David Lynch to Gaspar Noé, all but guaranteed the film's elevation from the slums of B - movie obscurity to some kind of
vulgar -
auteurist master class, where a surrealist action niche nobody asked for could suddenly be filled.