Mina (Dakota Fanning) is a twenty-something girl, then her car is broken down at a treeline, being stranded in a forest in the west of Ireland. When she finds shelter, she unwittingly becomes trapped with three strangers, all of whom are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures every night. Now Mina is trapped inside a decaying woodland shelter with three perfect strangers: Ciara (Georgina Campbell), Madeline (Olwen Fouéré) and Daniel (Oliver Finnegan). Then some strange creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. They are watching!. You can't see them, but they see everything !.
Dakota Fanning (Crazy in Albama) stars in this creepy "Folk Horror" directed by Ishana Shyamalan who shares his love of the terror genre like his father, the famous M. Night Shyamalan, director of ¨The Sixth Sense¨ and other successes in the field of horror and fantasy, such as ¨Signs¨ , ¨The village¨ , ¨Lady in water¨ , ¨Knock at the cabin¨, ¨Old¨, ¨The Incident¨, "Unbreakable" , ¨Multiple¨and "Glass" . It is important to name these films because some of them influenced on this ¨The Watchers¨which was also produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
This eerie and mysterious movie depicts the tale of an isolated place confronting the surprising truth that lies just outside its limits, they live under the control of a few 'Watchers' until a revelatory twist at the end. Ishana toys with terrifying ideas and in Irish fairy tales , but at times , she buries them under an illogical and rather unpredictable tale. Writer/director Shyamalan got a good feel for the time period with sinister images, threatening set pieces and tension enough . Stars Dakota Fanning who gives an acceptable acting as a young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, along with other decent players, such as: Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Oliver Finnegan, Alistair Brammer and special apperance from John Lynch.
It contains a suspenseful and intriguing musical score by composer Abel Korzeniowski. As well as colorful and evocative cinematography by cameraman Eli Arenson, shot on location in Ireland. The motion picture was professionally written and directed by Ishana Shyamalan , although not too original, because she copies ideas and the peculiar cinematographic style of her father M. Night. And it was directorial debut in a feature movie, she also made some episodes of the series ¨Servant¨. Rating: 6/10. The flick will please horror enthusiasts and fans of the director's father's films.
