Available for streaming: You won’t see a thriller produced by Shyamalan

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When 8-year-old Anna mysteriously disappears, connections are quickly made to a series of murders and ancient disappearances.

Shyamalan’s new obsession

With the greatest insight, the Max platform today puts the thriller Caddo Lake online. A catalog entry that might have gone completely unnoticed had the streaming giant not distributed it to its producer: M. Night Shyamalan, King of Fantasy. And we understand why the director joined the project 3 years ago.

Caddo Lake also caught our attention for its two headliners: Dylan O’Brien (whose career doesn’t match his talent) and the amazing Eliza Scanlen. Their characters, who never speak to each other throughout the film, live around Caddo Lake, located on the border of Texas and Louisiana.

The two screenwriters and directors of the film, Celine Held and Logan George, were fascinated by the mystical aspect of this place. And that’s exactly what we find in their feature film with particularly polished photography. It happens partly in these sticky swamps that connect all the characters: Dylan O’Brien lost his mother there, drowned in a car, and Eliza lost her half-sister there.

If Caddo Lake starts out as a classic thriller about a missing child, the writers give us a twist midway through a movie we didn’t see coming and one that takes the story in a whole new direction.

They invite viewers to arrange the pieces of a slightly more complex puzzle. A twist we’ll deliberately keep quiet here so as not to spoil the surprise… but one worthy of Shyamalan’s greatest films.

This turnaround is primarily an excuse for Held and George to talk about grief, family trauma, and forgiveness. The themes have been covered many times in movies, but what makes sense in Caddo Lake.

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