If you are reminded of “Psycho,” “The Three Faces of Eve,” Shyamalan’s own “Unbreakable” and the overrated “10 Cloverfield Lane,” it’s for good reason.
“Multiple personality disorder” has been a favorite Hollywood disease since Joanne Woodward won an Oscar in 1958 for The Three Faces of Eve .
We’re a very long way from The Three Faces of Eve, baby.
I mean, it's certainly equal to multiple-personality interpretations by Joanne Woodward ("The Three Faces of Eve") and Sally Field ("Sybil"), and each of them walked away with Best Actress Oscar and Emmy statues, respectively.
More pseudo-thriller than psycho-thriller, “Split” is like “The Three Faces of Eve” (or “Sybil”) meets “The Silence of the Lambs.”