M. Night Shyamalan’s latest hybrid of drama, horror, and suspense is a turgid tangle of a story that offers very little of anything worthwhile in the various genres it contends to belong to.

Given that there have been myriad adaptations of Louisa May Alcott’s classic tome, Little Women, including (but not limited to) the heralded George Cukor classic from 1933 as well as Gillian Armstrong’s equally impressive inter...