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Split (2016)

M. Night Shyamalan's Split follows Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man with dissociative identity disorder, who kidnaps three teenage girls and imprisons them in an underground facility. When Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) realizes that she can play Crumb's personalities against one another, she begins to form a plan for escape before she is sacrificed to a creature he refers to as "the Beast".

Split
PG-13
Horror
Thriller

Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Release Date
September 26, 2016
Studio(s)
Universal Pictures
Distributor(s)
Universal Pictures
Cast
Kim Director , Betty Buckley , Haley Lu Richardson , Brad William Henke , Anya Taylor-Joy , James McAvoy , Jessica Sula
Writers
M. Night Shyamalan
Runtime
1h 57m
Sequel(s)
Glass
prequel(s)
Unbreakable
Budget
9 million

Summary

Kevin, a man with at least 23 different personalities, is compelled to abduct three teenage girls. As they are held captive, a final personality - "The Beast" - begins to materialize.

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