Does M. Night's Short Film with a Half-Naked Penthouse Pet Mark the Start of His Comeback?

Things are looking up for M. Night Shyamalan! He is in the prime of life at age 40, and despite all critical evidence to the contrary, The Last Airbender has managed a healthy global box-office take of $225 million and counting. His Night Chronicles debut next month with the nifty-looking Devil, and his return to acting alongside Penthouse Pet Ryan Keely and MTV Movies correspondent Josh Horowitz is one of his finest performances to date. No, seriously. And there's a special cameo! Watch it after the jump.

For a guy widely perceived to be humorless and/or utterly doomed, Manoj brings his self-deprecating A-game to this tale of three passengers stranded on an escalator. Keely, meanwhile, brings her lacy underthings, and Horowitz, as per usual, brings his knives. Let's not give away the other inspired casting here; let it suffice to say that you will not see a better send-up of Devil's stuck-in-an-elevator-with-Satan plot all day. Redemption at last! [MTV]