Split Dvd

Split is a 2016 American psychological horror thriller film and the second installment in the Unbreakable trilogy written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan and starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Betty Buckley. The film follows a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility.

Principal photography began on November 11, 2015, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 26, 2016, and was released in the United States on January 20, 2017, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews, with McAvoy’s performance earning high praise and some critics labeling it a welcome return to form for Shyamalan, although some criticized the film for its perceived stigmatization of mental illness. The film grossed $278 million worldwide on a budget of $9 million.

The film is a standalone sequel to the 2000 film Unbreakable, which was also written, produced, and directed by Shyamalan. The film was not marketed as a sequel, and was a stealth sequel, instead saving the revelation for a scene featuring Bruce Willis reprising his Unbreakable role in an uncredited cameo. Split is noted as the first solo supervillain origin movie. It is also Shyamalan’s first sequel. The final part of the trilogy, titled Glass, was released in January 2019, combining the casts and characters of both previous films.

Plot

Casey Cooke is a withdrawn teenager. After being invited to a birthday party at the King of Prussia Mall, she accepts a ride home from her classmate Claire’s father, who also takes Claire’s friend Marcia. As the girls wait in the car, a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID), knocks Claire’s father unconscious before kidnapping them.

The man is in therapy with Dr. Karen Fletcher, who has identified 23 distinct personalities formed after The Man was abused as a child by his mother after his father left on a train one day and never returned. The dominant personality, “Barry,” controls when and which of the others can manifest. “Barry” has not allowed “Dennis” or “Patricia” to have control due to their undesirable traits and their belief in “The Beast,” a 24th personality who plans to rid the world of the “impure”, those who haven’t suffered. Fletcher recognizes in their sessions that “Dennis” has recently displaced “Barry” as the dominant personality.

“Dennis” imprisons the girls in an underground cell. By taking advantage of a childlike personality called “Hedwig”, the girls attempt to escape and Casey manages to find a walkie-talkie but her attempts to get help are dismissed as a prank. The girls are separated from each other by “Dennis” and “Patricia”. Fletcher visits The Man’s quarters, where he reveals that he has met “The Beast”. Fletcher realizes that there is an internal conflict between the personalities and becomes suspicious. She feigns going to the bathroom and finds Claire who is locked in a storage room. “Dennis” appears and sedates Fletcher. “Dennis” goes to a train station, where he boards an empty train car, which allows “The Beast”, who has enhanced physical abilities, to take over. Fletcher writes a letter with the man’s full name “Kevin Wendell Crumb”, on a piece of paper before “The Beast” arrives and kills her by crushing her torso. Casey escapes from her cell, only to find that “The Beast” has already killed and eaten some of Marcia and sees him attack Claire too. Casey finds Fletcher’s body and the piece of paper. “The Beast” approaches her, but she calls out Kevin’s full name, bringing Kevin forth. Upon learning of the situation and realizing that he has not been in control for two years, a horrified Kevin begs Casey to kill him with a shotgun he has hidden.

This prompts all 24 personalities to fight for control and “Hedwig” is the victor. Casey is told that “Kevin” has been made to sleep far away, and he will not awaken now even if his name is called. “Hedwig” gives control over to “Dennis” and “Patricia” and they once again let “The Beast” take hold. Casey retrieves the shotgun and cartridges before escaping into a tunnel, where she shoots “The Beast” twice causing only minor wounds. She locks herself in a caged area whose bars “The Beast” begins to pull apart. He sees faded scars across her body (this comes after it had been revealed via flashbacks that she had been molested as a child by her uncle and legal guardian, John before and after her father’s demise), considers Casey to be “pure” and more evolved due to her being “broken,” and spares her.

Casey is rescued and learns that she was being held at the Philadelphia Zoo, where her captor had been an employee. When Casey is asked by the police if she is ready to return home with her uncle, she just stares darkly. In another hideout, “Dennis,” “Patricia,” and “Hedwig” discuss the power of “The Beast” and their plans to change the world. In Silk City Diner, several patrons watch a news report on The Beast’s crimes, with the correspondent mentioning that his numerous personalities have earned him the nickname “The Horde.” A waitress notes the similarity to a criminal in a wheelchair who was incarcerated fifteen years earlier and who also received a nickname.[a] As she tries to remember the nickname, the man sitting next to her, David Dunn, says it was “Mr. Glass.”

Cast

James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb / Dennis / Patricia / Hedwig / Barry / Orwell / Jade / The Horde: a sufferer of dissociative identity disorder (DID), who has 23 prominent personalities, each possessing a peculiarity or posing a danger to his captives. His body chemistry changes with each personality, resulting in his 24th and final personality, “The Beast”, a grotesque sociopath and insatiable cannibal with superhuman capabilities, such as inhuman bodily strength, enhanced speed and agility, along with near-invulnerability and unnatural mobility, to the point of being able to scale walls and ceilings
Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, a teenage girl with a traumatic past and a history of self-harm, who is kidnapped by “Dennis”, one of Kevin’s personalities, to be sacrificed to the Beast.
Izzie Coffey as 5 year-old Casey
Betty Buckley as Karen Fletcher, a psychologist who attempts to help Kevin with his DID, and believes that DID can, in extreme cases, cause physiological changes.
Haley Lu Richardson as Claire Benoit, a classmate of Casey and a friend of Marcia, who is also kidnapped by “Dennis” to be sacrificed to the Beast.
Jessica Sula as Marcia, a classmate of Casey and a friend of Claire, who is also kidnapped by “Dennis” to be sacrificed to the Beast.
Sebastian Arcelus as Casey Cooke’s father.
Brad William Henke as John Cooke, Casey’s paternal uncle.
Neal Huff as Claire Benoit’s father.
Kim Director as Hannah.
Lyne Renée as academic moderator.
M. Night Shyamalan as Jai, a security guard in Dr. Fletcher’s apartment building.
Rosemary Howard as Penelope Crumb, Kevin’s mother.
Bruce Willis as David Dunn (uncredited cameo)