M Night Shyamalan is the man behind some pretty scary movies – including The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village and his latest horror movie The Visit.

But the filmmaker has confessed he gets scared too, and it’s spooky empty houses that really make his skin crawl.

Shyamalan said: “If the hallway in a movie looks like my hallway, I start to get nervous. If it doesn’t look like anything real, I don’t get scared of it. You know when they do crazy things in gory movies where there’s blood on the walls? I’ve never seen blood on the walls, so that doesn’t bother me, but I have heard a noise in the house that makes me feel that someone’s there.

“I have felt weird about going in basements. I have felt weird about going in attics. The smallest thing can make you scared.”

The teenagers look freaked out in The Visit
(Universal)

The Unbreakable director’s new film The Visit is about two teenage girls who go to stay with their estranged grandparents for the first time, only to become spooked out by their behaviour.

“Generally speaking, The Visit is about our fear of what happens when we get old,” explained Shyamalan. “It’s about all those phobias we have about how our brains and bodies deteriorate.”