The Village: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt. A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.

M Night Shyamalan's The Village revolves around a desolate town in Pennsylvania. The residents of this town live by strict rules - They are not to leave the village or the monsters beyond their boundaries will surely attack them. Lucius and Ivy have an attraction - a strong one.

I read somewhere that The Village was M. Night Shyamalan's best and most underrated movie. I wouldn't agree with that as The Sixth Sense was his best to me. But that's my opinion. The Village is entertaining though, like most of his movies, with the right amount of suspense.

The Village (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

The Village is based on a screenplay, originally titled "The Woods", by India-born filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, who also directed the film.

Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.

Thankfully, Shyamalan is working to rectify that, telling /Film that The Village will finally be receiving a release on Blu-ray and 4K. “A lot of people keep coming up to me on the street [about The Village ],” Shyamalan said.

His major films include the science fiction thriller Signs (2002), the psychological thriller The Village (2004), the fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), After Earth (2013), and the horror films The Visit (2015) and Split (2016).

Sixteen years after its divisive debut, M. Night Shyamalan’s psychological thriller The Village is set to receive a highly anticipated 4K remaster. In an interview with SlashFilm, the elusive director confirmed that the upgraded release is currently in the works.

Director M. Night Shyamalan put the entire cast through a 19th century "boot camp" in order for them to get a good feel for the time period. Joaquin Phoenix made a wooden walking stick for Bryce Dallas Howard during the 19th-century preparation the actors participated in before the film.