LOVE Shyamalan! Even if the film doesn't work, you have to appreciate his commitment to creating highly original ideas and his boldness in executing them.

For me this is another argument for the importance of finishing your first draft. You never know how your story might change as you write it. You never know whether typing one word or one sentence will make something click and send your brain in an important new or different direction.

LOVE it! Has that Night Gallery-Twilight Zone feel.

Let me add this note: I don't have a link for this so don't quote me, but I believe I read where Shyamalan didn't realize that Malcolm Crowe was dead until the 5th draft of the script! What if he had quit after draft #4? Another takeaway: We have to keep pushing the story, pushing the story until we feel like we've found what we need to find, and told the story as it needs to be told.