2024 — The Watchers

If you go in expecting The Sixth Sense , you will be disappointed. If you go in expecting a rainy, Irish version of The Village meets 10 Cloverfield Lane , you will find enough here to justify a streaming night.

The film’s greatest asset is its texture. Shyamalan the younger has an eye for the liminal. The Irish forest is rendered as a cathedral of green darkness; the bunker feels cold, metallic, and suffocating. There is a tangible sense of wet —the constant drizzle, the rotting leaves, the fog that swallows sound. The Watchers 2024

The Watchers is a classic "first album" syndrome movie. It shows a director with immense taste in lighting, sound design, and atmosphere, but who has not yet learned to trust her audience. Ishana Night Shyamalan proves she can create dread. She just needs to learn how to resolve it. If you go in expecting The Sixth Sense