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M. Night Shyamalan had his heyday almost 20 years ago. He leapt out of the gate with such confidence he became a champion instantly. And then...something went awry. He became embarrassingly self-serious, his films drowning in pretension and strained allegories. His famous twists felt like a director attempting to re-create the triumph of " The Sixth Sense ," where the twist of the film was so successfully withheld from audiences that people went back to see the film again and again. But now, here comes " The Visit ," a film so purely entertaining that you almost forget how scary it is. With all its terror, "The Visit" is an extremely funny film. 

There are too many horror cliches to even list ("gotcha" scares, dark basements, frightened children, mysterious sounds at night, no cellphone reception), but the main cliche is that it is a "found footage" film, a style already wrung dry. But Shyamalan injects adrenaline into it, as well as a frank admission that, yes, it is a cliche, and yes, it is absurd that one would keep filming in moments of such terror, but he uses the main strength of found footage: we are trapped by the perspective of the person holding the camera. Withhold visual information, lull the audience into safety, then turn the camera, and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT? 

"The Visit" starts quietly, with Mom ( Kathryn Hahn ) talking to the camera about running away from home when she was 19: her parents disapproved of her boyfriend. She had two kids with this man who recently left them all for someone new. Mom has a brave demeanor, and funny, too, referring to her kids as "brats" but with mama-bear affection. Her parents cut ties with her, but now they have reached out  from their snowy isolated farm and want to know their grandchildren. Mom packs the two kids off on a train for a visit.

Shyamalan breaks up the found footage with still shots of snowy ranks of trees, blazing sunsets, sunrise falling on a stack of logs. There are gigantic blood-red chapter markers: "TUESDAY MORNING", etc. These choices launch us into the overblown operatic horror style while commenting on it at the same time. It ratchets up the dread.

Becca ( Olivia DeJonge ) and Tyler ( Ed Oxenbould ) want to make a film about their mother's lost childhood home, a place they know well from all of her stories. Becca has done her homework about film-making, and instructs her younger brother about "frames" and "mise-en-scène." Tyler, an appealing gregarious kid, keeps stealing the camera to film the inside of his mouth and his improvised raps. Becca sternly reminds him to focus. 

The kids are happy to meet their grandparents. They are worried about the effect their grandparents' rejection had on their mother (similar to Cole's worry about his mother's unfinished business with her own parent in "The Sixth Sense"). Becca uses a fairy-tale word to explain what she wants their film to do — it will be an "elixir" to bring home to Mom. 

Nana ( Deanna Dunagan ), at first glance, is a Grandma out of a storybook, with a grey bun, an apron, and muffins coming out of the oven every hour. Pop Pop ( Peter McRobbie ) is a taciturn farmer who reminds the kids constantly that he and Nana are "old." 

But almost immediately, things get crazy. What is Pop Pop doing out in the barn all the time? Why does Nana ask Becca to clean the oven, insisting that she crawl all the way in ? What are those weird sounds at night from outside their bedroom door? They have a couple of Skype calls with Mom, and she reassures them their grandparents are "weird" but they're also old, and old people are sometimes cranky, sometimes paranoid. 

As the weirdness intensifies, Becca and Tyler's film evolves from an origin-story documentary to a mystery-solving investigation. They sneak the camera into the barn, underneath the house, they place it on a cabinet in the living room overnight, hoping to get a glimpse of what happens downstairs after they go to bed. What they see is more than they (and we) bargained for.

Dunagan and McRobbie play their roles with a melodramatic relish, entering into the fairy-tale world of the film. And the kids are great, funny and distinct. Tyler informs his sister that he wants to stop swearing so much, and instead will say the names of female pop singers. The joke is one that never gets old. He falls, and screams, "Sarah McLachlan!" When terrified, he whispers to himself, " Katy Perry ... " Tyler, filming his sister, asks her why she never looks in the mirror. "Your sweater is on backwards." As he grills her, he zooms in on her, keeping her face off-center, blurry grey-trunked trees filling most of the screen. The blur is the mystery around them. Cinematographer Maryse Alberti creates the illusion that the film is being made by kids, but also avoids the nauseating hand-held stuff that dogs the found-footage style.

When the twist comes, and you knew it was coming because Shyamalan is the director, it legitimately shocks. Maybe not as much as "The Sixth Sense" twist, but it is damn close. (The audience I saw it with gasped and some people screamed in terror.) There are references to " Halloween ", "Psycho" (Nana in a rocking chair seen from behind), and, of course, " Paranormal Activity "; the kids have seen a lot of movies, understand the tropes and try to recreate them themselves. 

"The Visit" represents Shyamalan cutting loose, lightening up, reveling in the improvisational behavior of the kids, their jokes, their bickering, their closeness. Horror is very close to comedy. Screams of terror often dissolve into hysterical laughter, and he uses that emotional dovetail, its tension and catharsis, in almost every scene. The film is ridiculous  on so many levels, the story playing out like the most monstrous version of Hansel & Gretel imaginable, and in that context, "ridiculous" is the highest possible praise.

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A remote farmhouse in a Midwestern nowhere is the setting for The Visit , the latest indignity in the odd career of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Back in 1999 as a debut director, he wowed the world with the singular poise of his ghost story The Sixth Sense ; in the years since, each successive film he’s made has been more calamitous than the last. Now, he delivers a ho-hum comic-horror concerning two grating teens, visiting their creepy grandparents for the first time.

The rustic isolation is captured in that great convenience of 21st-century scriptwriting: no mobile signal. The WiFi, however, is good enough for crystalline chats on Skype. Spoiler alert: more characters survive than you may wish.

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Parents need to know that The Visit is a found-footage horror movie from director M. Night Shyamalan. There are plenty of spooky images, sounds, and dialogue, as well as jump scares and a small amount of blood and gore. Viewers see dead bodies (including one killed in a rather shocking way), and two teens, 13…

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Teens learn to overcome past fears to deal with current situations. They sometimes work together but at other times are forced to split up.

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The main characters are teens (13 and 15) who try their best to survive a bad situation; they're brave, but their situation isn't one anyone would emulate. The adults in the story aren't particularly admirable.

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Dead bodies, one hanged. Elderly man killed in a shocking way. Some blood. Spooky images, spooky dialogue, and jump scares. Stabbing with a mirror shard. Teens in jeopardy. Vomiting and poop. A man briefly assaults another man. Rifle briefly shown.

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Minor innuendo involving 13-year-old boy who imagines himself a ladykiller. Nana's naked bottom is shown twice.

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"F--k" is used once. Other words include "s--t," "ass," "ho," "bitch," "goddamn," "hell," "douche," and possibly "a--hole." Middle finger gesture.

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Skype is used as part of the plot. Sony laptop shown. A Yahtzee! game, with references to toy companies Hasbro and Milton Bradley.

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Adults occasionally smoke cigarettes. A boy mimes "pot smoking" with his fingers.

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Parents need to know that The Visit is a found-footage horror movie from director M. Night Shyamalan . There are plenty of spooky images, sounds, and dialogue, as well as jump scares and a small amount of blood and gore. Viewers see dead bodies (including one killed in a rather shocking way), and two teens, 13 and 15, are frequently in peril. The 13-year-old boy fancies himself a ladykiller, which leads to some minor innuendo, and the "Nana" character's naked bottom is shown a couple of times. Language includes a use of "f--k," plus "s--t," "bitch," and more, most frequently spoken by the 13-year-old. Adult characters infrequently smoke cigarettes, and there's a very brief, mimed reference to smoking pot. Shyamalan is a filmmaker whom horror hounds love to hate, but this movie could be a comeback that fans will want to see. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Thirteen-year-old Tyler ( Ed Oxenbould ) and 15-year-old Becca (Olivia DeJonge) agree to spend a week with their grandparents while encouraging their mom ( Kathryn Hahn ) to take a vacation with her boyfriend. The kids have never met their grandparents, "Nana" (Deanna Dunagan) and "Pop Pop" (Peter McRobbie), at least partly because when their mother left home 15 years earlier, something terrible apparently happened. At first things seem fine, but then Nana and Pop Pop start behaving strangely. Even if it can all be explained -- Nana gets "sundown" syndrome, and Pop Pop requires adult diapers -- it doesn't quite ease the feeling that something's wrong. Meanwhile, Becca documents their visit on video, hoping to capture something that explains it all.

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After several perplexing misfires, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has scaled back, gone for a lower budget and a lighter tone, and emerged with his most effective movie in over a decade. THE VISIT begins interestingly; the potentially creepy moments can be easily explained away and even laughed off, but the director still manages to create a subtle, creeping dread that steadily builds toward the climax.

Shyamalan uses the found-footage concept with more creativity than most other filmmakers, displaying his usual intriguing grasp of three-dimensional space, as well as empty space. The characters themselves are even aware of certain cinematic theories that could make their "documentary" more interesting. They're refreshingly intelligent and self-aware, and they never blunder stupidly into any situation. If the movie has a drawback, it's that fans will be looking hard for clues to one of Shyamalan's big "twists." As to what it is, or whether there is one, we're not saying.

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• In theaters : September 11, 2015
• On DVD or streaming : January 5, 2016
• Cast : Kathryn Hahn , Ed Oxenbould , Olivia DeJonge
• Director : M. Night Shyamalan
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Universal Pictures
• Genre : Horror
• Run time : 94 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : disturbing thematic material including terror, violence and some nudity, and for brief language
• Last updated : April 7, 2024

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David Farnor | On 22, Jan 2017

Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cast: Olivia DeJong, Ed Oxenbould, Kathryn Hahn Certificate: 15 Watch The Visit online in the UK: Netflix UK / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google Play

M. Night Shyamalan is flavour of the month again, with his return to form in James McAvoy thriller Split. But his return to form arguably came two years ago, with low-key oddity The Visit. The film follows two young kids as they go to visit their grandparents. The catch? They have to go to bed at 9.30pm every night. And they can’t ever go in the basement.

A curfew might not sound strange, but that’s not taking into account what it’s like to be a teenager, when bedtime is bottom of the list of priorities. For Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and 13-year-old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould), it’s unusual enough to annoy – but also to spike their curiosity. Weird noises at night, even weirder flashes of behaviour from Nana, and Pop Pop’s unconvincing attempts to dismiss their questions only spark more intrigue. But what if the vomiting, the screaming, the forgetfulness are all just, as he says, consequences of old age?

It’s easy to forget how alien the elderly can seem when you’re young. They can sometimes feel far from relatives you know, or once knew. As you age yourself, that gap disappears, but Shyamalan plants his feet firmly in that naive limbo, a time of grim fairytales and nocturnal spooks, and refuses to budge. That uneasy territory is a source of tension, but also, notably, of humour. This is the funniest Shyamalan movie to date – indeed, you get the sense that the director is trying to tread new ground, not just in the significantly smaller budget than his blockbuster missteps. A partnership with producer Jason Blum only seems to boost his confidence, and, under the eye of the low-budget horror veteran, the director uses this different approach to quietly return to old strengths – most notably, his ability to spot talent in up-and-coming actors (the biggest name is Transparent’s Kathryn Hahn as their mum, who appears via Skype) and coax them to deliver on his carefully balanced tone.

The found footage format might be all-too-familiar for horror fans, but it’s new for him – and you can feel the fun Shyamalan is having with it. That fun permeates everything, from Ed Oxenbould’s laugh-out-loud freestyle raps to the swift pace that squeezes the deceptively simple narrative into a 94-minute runtime. Compare it to the countless clones of Paranormal Activity and The Visit stands out in a crowded genre – and that’s an achievement in itself.

The result sparks with new creative inspiration from the storyteller who gave us The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Where once the filmmaker had Mark Wahlberg tackling a global, supernatural happening, here, he has two children being forced to sit down and play Yahtzee. It says a lot that the latter is more exciting. Shyamalan specialises in exploring the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary, and The Visit strips away any distractions to focus solely on that divide – a divide that he gently equates with the age gap (and emotional gap) between the fully rounded members of a dysfunctional, estranged family. With Split building on that success, The Visit is a reminder that bigger isn’t always better. It’s far from classic, but it’s an absolute hoot. And after The Last Airbender and After Earth, that’s a welcome twist.

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The Visit ist ein Komödie aus dem Jahr 2015 von M. Night Shyamalan mit Olivia DeJonge und Ed Oxenbould .

M. Night Shyamalans Horrorkomödie The Visit konzentriert sich auf ein Geschwisterpaar, das auf der Farm der Großeltern Verstörendes beobachten muss.

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Handlung von The Visit Der Horrorfilm The Visit erzählt von einem Bruder ( Ed Oxenbould ) und einer Schwester ( Olivia DeJonge ), die von ihrer alleinerziehenden Mutter ( Kathryn Hahn ) mit den besten Absichten nach Pennsylvania geschickt werden. Die Geschwister sollen eine Woche bei ihren Großeltern auf dem Land verbringen. Ihr Kurzurlaub beginnt ganz harmonisch, Großmutter und Großvater kümmern sich liebevoll um das Wohlergehen ihrer Enkelkinder. Die Kinder müssen sich jedoch an eine wichtige Regel halten: Sie dürfen ab 21:30 Uhr keinesfalls ihr Zimmer verlassen.

Eines Nachts werden die Kinder jedoch von seltsamen Geräuschen aus dem Schlaf gerissen – es ist bereits nach 21:30 Uhr. Sie machen sich Sorgen und fürchten, Einbrecher könnten ins Haus eingedrungen sein. So verlassen sie ihr Zimmer und machen daraufhin sehr verstörende Entdeckungen. Was ist nur mit ihren Großeltern los? Was verbergen sie für ein Geheimnis? Oma und Opa verhalten sich nun immer merkwürdiger und die Chancen, dass die Kinder wohlbehalten nach Hause zu ihrer Mutter zurückkehren können, sinken von Tag zu Tag.

Hintergrund & Infos zu The Visit The Visit ist ein Low-Budget-Film von M. Night Shyamalan ( Signs – Zeichen , Unbreakable – Unzerbrechlich ) und lief zunächst unter dem Arbeitstitel Sundowning . Erst als sich Universal Pictures die Rechte an dem Horrorprojekt sicherte, wurde Mitte 2014 bekannt, dass der Filmemacher den Film bereits fertig gestellt hatte. Auf Twitter wies M. Night Shyamalan darauf hin, dass es drei verschiedene Schnittfassungen des Films gibt, was auch die anfänglichen Verwirrungen um die Genrezugehörigkeit von The Visit erklärt. So soll es eine Fassung geben, die als Komödie gilt; eine zweite, die als Horrorfilm beschrieben werden kann und eine weitere Fassung, die irgendwo dazwischen liegt. Universal Pictures vermarktete den Film seit Erscheinen des ersten Trailers jedoch eher als Horrorthriller.

Mit dem Design eines der ersten Poster zu The Visit knüpft M. Night Shyamalan an seinen Film The Village – Das Dorf (2004) an. Zu dem Thriller mit Joaquin Phoenix und Adrien Brody wurde ebenfalls ein Poster mit Regeln veröffentlicht, die es zu befolgen gilt. (AH)

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M. Night Shyamalan is notorious for using dramatic twists towards the endings of his films, some of which are pulled off perfectly and add an extra layer of depth to a sprawling story (hello, Split ). Some of the director's other offerings simply keep the audience on their toes rather than having any extra subtext or hidden meaning. Shyamalan's 2015 found-footage horror-comedy  The Visit , which he wrote and directed, definitely fits in the latter category, aiming for style over substance.

The Visit follows 15-year-old Becca Jamison (Olivia DeJonge) and her 13-year-old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) when they spend the week with their mother's estranged parents, who live in another town. Loretta (played by WandaVision 's Kathryn Hahn ) never explained to her children why she separated herself away from her parents, but clearly hopes the weekend could help bring the family back together.

Although The Visit occasionally toys with themes of abandonment and fear of the unknown, it wasn't particularly well-received by critics on its initial release, as many struggled with its bizarre comedic tone in the found-footage style. So, after Tyler and his camera record a number of disturbing occurrences like Nana (Deanna Dunagan) projectile-vomiting in the middle of the night and discovering "Pop Pop"'s (Peter McRobbie) mountain of used diapers, it soon becomes clear that something isn't right with the grandparents.

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The Visit's twist plays on expectations

Because Shyamalan sets up the idea of the separation between Loretta and her parents very early on — and doesn't show their faces before Becca and Tyler meet them — the film automatically creates a false sense of security. Even more so since the found-footage style restricts the use of typical exposition methods like flashbacks or other scenes which would indicate that Nana and Pop Pop aren't who they say they are. Audiences have no reason to expect that they're actually two escapees from a local psychiatric facility.

The pieces all come together once Becca discovers her  real grandparents' corpses in the basement, along with some uniforms from the psychiatric hospital. It confirms "Nana" and "Pop-Pop" escaped from the institution and murdered the Jamisons because they were a similar age, making it easy to hide their whereabouts from the authorities. And they would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.)

However, after a video call from Loretta reveals that the pair aren't her parents, the children are forced to keep up appearances — but the unhinged duo start to taunt the siblings. Tyler in particular is forced to face his fear of germs as "Pop Pop" wipes dirty diapers in his face. The germophobia is something Shyamalan threads through Tyler's character throughout The Visit,  and the encounter with "Pop Pop" is a basic attempt of showing he's gone through some kind of trial-by-fire to get over his fears.

But the Jamison kids don't take things lying down: They fight back in vicious fashion — a subversion of yet another expectation that young teens might would wait for adults or law enforcement officers to arrive before doing away with their tormentors.

Its real message is about reconciliation

By the time Becca stabs "Nana" to death and Tyler has repeatedly slammed "Pop-Pop"'s head with the refrigerator door, their mother and the police do arrive to pick up the pieces. In a last-ditch attempt at adding an emotional undertone, Shyamalan reveals Loretta left home after a huge argument with her parents. She hit her mother, and her father hit her in return. But Loretta explains that reconciliation was always on the table if she had stopped being so stubborn and just reached out. One could take a domino-effect perspective and even say that Loretta's stubbornness about not reconnecting and her sustained distance from her parents put them in exactly the vulnerable position they needed to be for "Nana" and "Pop-Pop" to murder them. 

Loretta's confession actually mirrors something "Pop-Pop" told Tyler (before his run-in with the refrigerator door): that he and "Nana" wanted to spend one week as a normal family before dying. They should've thought about that before murdering a pair of innocent grandparents, but here we are. 

So, is The Visit  trying to say that if we don't keep our families together, they'll be replaced by imposters and terrify our children? Well, probably not. The Visit tries to deliver a message about breaking away from old habits, working through your fears, and stop being so stubborn over arguments that don't have any consequences in the long-run. Whether it actually sticks the landing on all of those points is still up for debate.

M. Night Shyamalan ( The Sixth Sense ) found-footage horror. A young brother and sister stay with their grandparents, only for things to turn horrific when Grandma demonstrates increasingly disturbing behaviour. Co-stars Kathryn Hahn ( Tomorrowland ) as the kids’ mother.

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"M. Night Shyamalan returns to thriller filmmaking in the style of low-budget impresario Jason Blum with mixed results."

"A bizarre, conflicted mess, horrifying when it’s trying to be funny, oddly appealing when it turns the screws."

"Shyamalan has a fine eye and a nice, natural way with actors, and he has a talent for gently rap-rap-rapping on your nerves."

"This tardy rehash of fairytale tropes finds sometime genre innovator M Night Shyamalan clinging in abject desperation to the found-footage movement’s careworn coattails."

"No spoilers, except to say that cheap thrills can still be a blast."

"Well cast and strong on setting. But the dull thudding that resounds isn’t part of its effective aural design..."

"An utterly enjoyable and oddly affecting experience that's not only Shyamalan's best film in years but also a cracking thriller in its own right."

"Shyamalan finds freshness in familiar horror tropes. After some big budget misfires, it's great to see him go back to his smaller, scarier roots."

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The Visit review – M Night Shyamalan's found-footage loser

The Sixth Sense director despatches a pair of charmless tweens to a predictable fate in a dull, derivative and dated drama

This tardy rehash of fairytale tropes finds sometime genre innovator M Night Shyamalan clinging in abject desperation to the found-footage movement’s careworn coattails. 

Charmless tween siblings – Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) raps, while Becca (Olivia DeJonge) addends irksome Film-making 101 footnotes – are dispatched to their grandparents’ place in snowy Pennsylvania; there, they and the target demographic receive a lesson in how oldsters are, like, totally creepy and gross. 

An hour of numbingly tedious potter precedes the inevitable twist-reveal, which plunges us into a risible final act combining the twin pleasures of Yahtzee and adult incontinence. Dull, derivative and flatly unscary. I’m afraid I see only a dead career.

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Sunday’s detonation should free the ship that hit the Key Bridge. What’s next?

T he Dali has sat, entangled with the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that it knocked down, for the past six weeks, becoming a Baltimore landmark as crews work to clear the channel around it of debris.

But in the most dramatic step yet to free the ship, authorities plan to use explosive devices Sunday evening to slice up a huge piece of bridge sitting atop the container ship, paving the way for it to be freed and pushed from the incident site in the coming days.

If all goes as planned, the detonation will sound like fireworks, look like puffs of smoke and plunge into the water the pieces of bridge that have weighed the ship down since the vessel appeared to lose control and crash into one of the span’s support piers March 26, killing six construction workers .

The detonation was originally scheduled for Saturday evening before being moved to Sunday evening, according to Jason Showmaker, a spokesperson with Key Bridge Unified Command. Wind and rain Friday slowed preparations, he said.

In the immediate aftermath of the explosive cuts Sunday, the Dali is likely to remain in the Patapsco River. Freeing a ship is a calculated, steady process and, despite the suddenness of the explosion, it is best to slowly refloat a ship, experts say.

“You want the ship to move on your terms, not its terms,” said Mike Dean, executive director of the American Salvage Association.

If a ship is made too light, too fast, it could jolt upward and swing around uncontrolled, potentially damaging its hull by bumping into a piece of debris. “The last thing you want to do is knock a hole in the ship,” Dean said.

After the explosions, which will last just a few seconds, the ship is likely to stay put for about two days, said Bobby Petty, another Unified Command spokesperson, as it is surveyed.

Then, he said, it will be moved to the Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal. Wreckage on the ship will be removed, investigators will get back on board, the Dali’s condition will be further analyzed and the ship patched up before likely heading to a still-be-determined shipyard for further repair.

Each salvage effort presents unique challenges and the Dali, a 984-foot ship that knocked down 50,000 tons of steel and concrete, particularly so.

Dean, the former executive director of the Navy’s salvage and diving division, worked to free more than 20 ships over his career but never saw a situation in which a bridge sat on a ship.

Dan Magone, a salvor based in Alaska, has directed 79 efforts to free ships a minimum of 58 feet in length and wrote a book, “Port of Refuge,” about his varied experiences.

“I never did anything twice,” he said.

Clearing off the bow

Resolve Marine, a global vessel salvor that Magone once worked for, is leading efforts to free ship. It tapped Controlled Demolition Inc., a Baltimore County firm, as a subcontractor.

Rather than tasking a crew with physically cutting the steel that’s on the ship, which could shift and potentially cause injury, Unified Command said in a news release that it will use “precision cuts made with small charges,” which it called the “safest and swiftest method to remove the bridge piece.”

Magone said he had always assumed authorities would use explosives to make cuts at some point. Doing so, he said, allows cuts to be made simultaneously or in a precise order, rather than relying on humans torching parts of the steel at different paces. It’s hard to predict the various tensions present on the piece of bridge, so after making a cut, debris could potentially hurt a worker.

“To do anything without explosives would just be fiddling around,” Magone said.

Crews have cut into the steel and will place small charges inside those cuts, which will then be “encased with a wrap similar to a large piece of tape” and detonated, according to Unified Command. The 21-person crew still aboard the Dali will shelter in place during the event.

The explosive approach is expected to clear the 8- to 12-million-pound piece of Interstate 695 that is lying across the Dali’s bow. Crews will later retrieve the blown-apart chunks from the water, Petty said.

During the explosion, people within 2,000 yards are asked to wear hearing protection. That zone mostly covers water, but does include a few businesses on Hawkins Point.

“This controlled demolition is not like what you would see in a movie,” states an animation from Unified Command. “From a distance, it will sound like fireworks or loud thunder and appear as puffs of smoke.”

Unified Command intends to detonate the devices during a low tide. That will likely leave the ship slightly aground, even after the bridge pieces are removed, Dean said. Authorities will later refloat the ship using a combination of a high tide and potentially the discharge of ballast water.

Paramount to salvage efforts are surveys and analysis, said Tom Gilmour, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral who is a maritime consultant.

“You don’t want to be surprised,” he said.

Surveying the aftermath

Crews will have to see where the pieces land after blowing apart the bridge section weighing down the Dali’s bow.

That will include an inspection of the ship, where it is and what the wreckage looks like underneath. A fresh survey of the riverbed might need to be conducted. Some dredging could be needed to get the ship floating, Petty said.

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Authorities will have to bear in mind a Baltimore Gas and Electric pipeline and an old Baltimore City water main, which lie beneath the riverbed near the ship. The gas pipeline has been “inerted,” or purged of its gas, but officials will still seek to avoid any damage to it as debris plummets from the ship and onto the riverbed, experts say.

The ship is being held down by six mooring lines, keeping it steady from forces like high tides, fast winds and wakes from vessels passing through temporary channels nearby.

The ebb and flow between tides this weekend near Hawkins Point are expected to be around a foot. Crews plan to wait for a high tide for a better chance at refloating the ship, Petty said, also noting that in a best-case scenario, the Dali could be refloated immediately after the inspection.

The Baltimore Sun has obtained an email that indicates the Dali is expected back in port “on or about May 14.” It was sent to attorneys for claimants who have filed against the shipping companies that own and manage the Dali.

But that timing could change. Weather, which has been uncooperative this week, is a contributing factor.

“There are a lot of variables,” Petty said.

Bringing the Dali in

After being cleared to move, the Dali will make its way to the Seagirt Terminal, Petty said.

How it gets there will depend on the circumstances — Petty said that tugboats will “more likely than not” need to push it to the dock, which is a little over 2 nautical miles from where the ship has been stranded since late March.

Removing the ship from the incident area is a key step in opening up the primary, 50-foot shipping channel, which authorities have said will be completed by the end of May. That will bring an economic lift to the Port of Baltimore, which has seen limited activity since the bridge collapse blocked the channel.

The Dali is expected to stay at Seagirt Terminal for a few weeks while the wreckage embedded in the deck is cleared. Some of the containers onboard will be unloaded, too, to make the deck accessible.

The email to claimants said the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident along with the FBI and other agencies, plans to be on board Tuesday and Wednesday. After investigators disembark, claimants will be allowed to come onto the vessel starting May 20 for inspections they requested aboard the ship.

Temporary repairs could be made at Seagirt to the Dali, whose bow was severely gashed by the bridge.

Any temporary fixes at Seagirt don’t necessarily mean the Dali will be home-free — it may have to travel to a shipyard for permanent repairs. It’s “way too early to know,” Petty said, where the Dali might go, as engineers will have to conduct a thorough inspection once the truss is removed from the deck.

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The long-running feud between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun is set to be explored in a new docuseries commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery U.K. and Ireland.

Tentatively titled “Taylor Swift vs. Scooter Braun: Bad Blood,” the two-part documentary is part of WBD U.K.’s “vs” series, which includes “Johnny vs. Amber,” about the legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, and “Kim vs. Kanye: The Divorce,” about Kim Kardashian’s separation from Kanye West. Optomen TV, an All3Media company, will produce.

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As well as giving viewers a comprehensive masterclass on music rights, the series will also explore gender dynamics in the music industry and power of fandom. Among those participating in the series will be legal experts, journalists and insiders from both Swift and Braun’s camps, who will put forward arguments for and against both parties.

The documentary is set to air in the U.K. and Ireland on Discovery+ in June.

“Taylor Swift’s dispute with Scooter Braun over the ownership of her music exploded into the mainstream, taking contract law from boardroom to social media and into public interest,” said Charlotte Reid, VP of commissioning for WBD U.K.’s networks and streaming. “It’s a high-profile, high-interest story that opened debate on fandom and dominated headlines, one which will resonate with our viewers who are highly engaged with access-led documentaries like ‘vs’, which continues to be a popular format on Discovery+.”

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Silk pajamas, spanking and questions about STDs: Stormy Daniels details sexual encounter with Trump

Adult film actor Stormy Daniels took the witness stand at Donald Trump 's New York criminal trial Tuesday, testifying under oath about the sexual encounter she says she had with him in 2006 and the $130,000 deal for her silence that was struck during the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

In a remarkable day of testimony with the former president sitting roughly 10 feet away from her, Daniels recounted the tryst in detail. She also talked about Trump's supposed efforts to get her on his TV show and her decision to come forward with her story, as well as the payoff and the fallout from doing so.

During cross-examination, which at times became heated, Daniels tangled with one of Trump’s attorneys, Susan Necheles, who accused her of making up a series of false claims to "extort" Trump, then a presidential candidate.

Trump’s lawyers also argued that some of Daniels’ account of the 2006 encounter “was unduly and inappropriately prejudicial.” They then requested a mistrial.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the judge that Daniels’ unfair claims included her testimony that Trump didn’t use a condom and that she thinks she “blacked out” for a part of it.

“There’s no way to unring the bell, in our view,” Blanche said during a dramatic exchange with prosecutors.

Judge Juan Merchan shot down the mistrial motion but acknowledged that "there were things that would have been better left unsaid,” adding that he would strike some of Daniels' testimony from the record.

Court isn’t in session Wednesday. Cross-examination of Daniels will resume Thursday morning.

Trump is headed to Florida on Tuesday evening, with plans to spend Wednesday at Mar-a-Lago, campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Daniels testified that she first met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in July 2006. Describing their first meeting as a "very brief encounter" on a golf course, Daniels said she was 27 and remembered Trump being as old as her father — around 60.

The jury — which appeared focused intently on Daniels and her testimony — was shown a picture of them together from that trip.

Daniels said that they later ran into each other at the club and that a man she later learned was Trump's bodyguard told her Trump wanted to have dinner with her. She said she replied, "No, with an expletive in front."

She did, however, get the bodyguard's number, and she said that later that day her publicist convinced her she should accept the invitation, telling her: “It’ll make a great story. He’s a business guy. Like, what could possibly go wrong?”

She said she went up to Trump's penthouse hotel suite and was told they'd be going to dinner at one of the restaurants downstairs. When she entered the room, which she described as "three times the size of my apartment," he was wearing "silk or satin" pajamas, she said. She said she quipped, “Does Hugh Hefner know you stole his pajamas?” and asked him to change, which he did.

They then sat at a dining table in the suite, where, she said, Trump asked her numerous questions about her adult film writing and directing. He then asked her about sexually transmitted diseases, and she said she was tested constantly and "I've never had a bad test."

She said that she grew frustrated with him because he kept cutting off her answers and that when he pulled out a magazine with him on the cover, she said, "Someone should spank you with that." She said she then rolled it up and "swatted" him with it. While jurors mostly appeared poker-faced through her testimony, one began rubbing her face and appeared to be holding back laughter.

After that, she said, Trump was "much more polite" and suggested she should come on his TV show, "The Apprentice." Daniels testified that "he said, 'You remind me of my daughter,'" and that appearing on the show would demonstrate she shouldn't be underestimated.

In all, they chatted for about two hours, Daniels said. She said that she went to the bathroom and that when she walked out, Trump was lying on the bed "in boxer shorts and T-shirt." She said she was "startled, like a jump scare. Wasn’t expecting someone to be there, especially minus a lot of clothing.”

She said Trump told her, "I thought you were serious about what you wanted." She said she felt "there was an imbalance of power, for sure. He was bigger and blocking the way, but I was not threatened either verbally or physically.” Asked in court whether she ended up having sex with him on the bed, she said, "Yes."

She described the sex as brief and said Trump told her “it was great. Let’s get together again, honey bunch.” She said he hadn’t used a condom and hadn't expressed any concern about his wife’s finding out what had happened. She said he also didn’t give her his phone number.

Trump's bodyguard reached out to her the next day to invite her to meet Trump at a bar in her hotel, she said. When she got there, she said, he was with then-Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Trump left about 10 minutes later but continued to call her well after the encounter, she said, "with an update — or a non-update if he didn’t have one — for ‘Apprentice.’”

"He always called me honey bunch," she said.

She said they saw each other again in January 2007, when he invited her to the launch of his Trump vodka brand. While she was there, she said, he introduced her to his friend "Karen," who she later learned was Karen McDougal , a former Playboy model who said she was having a monthslong affair with Trump during that period. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified earlier in the trial that he paid McDougal $150,000 to keep her quiet about the claim during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has denied both Daniels' and McDougal's claims.

Daniels said Trump also invited her to Trump Tower around that time and assured her, "I'm still working on the ‘Apprentice’ thing."

She said they last saw each other in the summer of 2007, when he invited her to see him at a bungalow he was staying at in Los Angeles. She said that he "kept trying to make sexual advances" but that she shot him down. "I told him I was on my period," she said. He said he later called her and told her he hadn't been able to get her on his show.

Payments made to Daniels by Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen at the end of the 2016 campaign are at the heart of the case, the first criminal trial of a former president. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in return for her keeping quiet about her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump.

Daniels said Tuesday that Gina Rodriguez, her manager, spoke to her about going public with her story for money in 2015 after Trump announced he was running for president. Rodriguez didn’t have much success shopping the story until after the release in October 2016 of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was recorded in 2005 bragging that he could grope women without their consent.

She said that Rodriguez then told her that Trump and Cohen were "interested in paying" for the story and that she agreed, because it meant the story — which her husband didn’t know about — wouldn’t become public. "I didn't care about the amounts. It was just, 'Get it done,'" she said.

Prosecutors say Trump reimbursed Cohen the money in payments that were falsely described as legal expenses. They have charged him with 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump has pleaded not guilty.

Daniels' deal with Cohen was revealed in a January 2018 story in The Wall Street Journal. Asked about the impact the story had on her life, Daniels said, "Chaos."

“My husband asking questions, my friends asking questions,” she said, with people showing up on her front lawn.

She said that Cohen started to talk about her allegations publicly but that she couldn’t because of the NDA and the $1 million penalty it included if she violated it. She said she later hired lawyer Michael Avenatti "so that I could stand up for myself."

He helped her get out of the NDA but also filed an unsuccessful defamation suit against Trump on her behalf and against her wishes, she said. Daniels lost the case and was ordered to pay Trump's legal fees . She eventually fired Avenatti, who was convicted of several crimes, including stealing from Daniels .

Daniels had vowed on Twitter, now X, never to pay the legal fees, which she acknowledged on cross-examination totaled over $660,000.

"You said, 'I will go to jail before I pay a penny'?" Necheles asked Daniels. "Correct," she responded.

Daniels also acknowledged that she hates Trump and has called him mean names online, including having referred to him as an "orange turd," but she said Trump, who has repeatedly referred to her as "horseface," made fun of her first.

Necheles also pressed Daniels about earlier accounts of her story. Daniels testified she agreed to do an interview with In Touch magazine in 2011 after it told her it was writing about the alleged encounter with Trump. Daniels said that it had agreed to pay her $15,000 for the interview but that the deal was scrapped after Cohen got the story killed. She said she was threatened weeks later by a man in a Las Vegas parking lot who told her to "leave Trump alone."

Necheles repeatedly suggested the parking lot incident was made up, which Daniels disputed. Daniels said that she was frightened by the encounter and that she stayed quiet until Trump declared his candidacy for president, at which point she gave her manager the green light to shop her story around.

“You weren’t really scared, were you?” Necheles said.

“I was terrified, but the ballgame changed,” Daniels replied, implying that by telling her story when Trump was a candidate, she felt she could ensure her safety.

“You were looking to extort money from President Trump, right?” Necheles said.

“False,” Daniels replied.

Before Daniels first took the stand, Merchan told prosecutors she could testify that she and Trump had sexual relations but that she should leave details out. Once she was on the stand, Daniels often elaborated on her claims without being asked, and Merchan repeatedly told her just to answer the questions that were posed to her.

When Blanche made his mistrial motion, Merchan also faulted the lawyers for not having spoken up during her testimony, saying he was surprised there weren't more objections.

"I think that I signaled to you and to the prosecution that we were going into way too much detail,” Merchan said.

Trump, whom Merchan has fined for repeatedly violating a gag order by attacking Daniels and Cohen, took to his social media platform before Tuesday's court proceedings to complain he had "just recently been told who the witness is today."

“This is unprecedented, no time for lawyers to prepare. No Judge has ever run a trial in such a biased and partisan way,” he wrote in a post that was taken down a short time later.

The Truth Social post went up shortly before The Associated Press first reported that Daniels was expected to testify. It's unclear when Trump and his lawyers were told she'd be testifying — prosecutors have typically not been telling them who would take the stand until the day before, citing Trump's record of witness commentary.

That Daniels would testify wasn’t a surprise, however. Trump’s legal team had argued unsuccessfully that she should be barred from taking the stand, a request Merchan rejected before the trial started. Cohen is also expected to testify.

Before Daniels, prosecutors called a longtime publishing executive to authenticate and read excerpts from some of Trump’s books.

Sally Franklin, an executive at Penguin Random House, read one from "Trump: Think Like a Billionaire" that talked about how closely Trump tracks his money — which prosecutors are likely to use to show he was well aware of what he was paying Cohen back for.

"I always sign my checks so I know where my money is going,” he said in the excerpt.

Adam Reiss is a reporter and producer for NBC and MSNBC.

Gary Grumbach produces and reports for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C.

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