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Platform: Showmax Info: From Oscar nominee M Night Shyamalan

(The Sixth Sense), the 2021 People‘s Choice Award-nominated horror Old sees an idyllic holiday turn into a nightmare when visitors to a secluded beach realise they are ageing rapidly, reducing their entire lives to a single day. The 46th biggest film of 2021, Old stars Bafta nominee Gael García Bernal

(Station Eleven, Y tu mamá también), multi-award-winner Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), MTV Movie Award nominee Alex Wolff (Hereditary, Pig), Emmy nominee Rufus Sewell (The Man in the High Castle), Critics Choice nominee Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), and Critics Choice Super nominee Abbey Lee Lovecraft Country, Mad Max: Fury Road), not to mention Nigerian Bafta nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird

(The Personal History of David Copperfield) and Rhodes University graduate Embeth Davidtz (Matilda).

As The New Yorker says, “Shyamalan has created a splendid throwback of a science-fiction thriller that develops a simple idea with stark vigour and conveys the straight-faced glee of realising the straightforward logic of its enticing absurdity.” Shyamalan’s Split, starring James McAvoy as a kidnapper diagnosed with 23 distinct personalities, is also now on Showmax, as is

The Visit, his horror about two siblings who become increasingly frightened by their grandparents.