

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Direction
Shyamalan's most unhinged premise, committed fully.
Practical Effects
Makeup aging effects that genuinely unsettle.

Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shyamalan secretly filmed at Dominican Republic beaches during COVID, using local crew to avoid travel restrictions.
The film adapts Pierre Oscar Levy's graphic novel 'Sandcastle,' but Shyamalan added the corporate experiment framing — turning cosmic horror into capitalist critique.