M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village," as does much his previous work, harkens back to an earlier era of scare movies, where what you don't see is more crucial than what you do. Literate and visually expressive, "The Village" relies on the soundtrack's unsettling noises, the strangely disturbing harmony of its colors and pristine innocence of its rural setting to provoke audience goose bumps. Unlike "The Sixth Sense," however, the film's key revelation might be too mild to jolt audiences.

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