There’s a certain fascination in watching truly terrible movies — particularly the ones in which absolutely everything misfires. The latest M. Night Shyamalan horror film, Old, is so bad it really ought to finish his career.

However, nothing but death itself can put a stop to Shyamalan. Because no matter how many bad films he’s made — and he’s made a lot of them — they’ve been so shockingly profitable as a whole that he’ll always have a place at Hollywood’s table.

After his spectacular flameout with the 2006 fiasco Lady in the Water, accompanied by reports of Shyamalan’s monumental on-set arrogance, I’d had hopes that he might redeem himself by sticking with the quiet, low-budget films he started doing after his many expensive flops. A few of them he’s even financed himself, because that way, he “can make the most interesting art.”