Rent The Watched (2024)
2.8 of 5 from 156 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- In an untouched forest in western Ireland, 28-year-old artist Mina (Dakota Fanning) finds herself trapped in a bunker alongside three strangers who are watched and held prisoner by mysterious creatures.
- Actors:
- Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Oliver Finnegan, Alistair Brammer, John Lynch, Siobhan Hewlett, Hannah Dargan, Emily Dargan, Joel Figueroa, Michelle Hlongwane, Anthony Morris, Shane O'Regan, Jim Tighe, Zarima McDermott, Morgan Bailey-Rocks, Christian Bailey-Rocks, Eabha Connolly, Hannah Howland, Kya Brame
- Directors:
- Ishana Shyamalan
- Producers:
- Nimitt Mankad, Ashwin Rajan, M. Night Shyamalan
- Voiced By:
- Seán T. Ó Meallaigh
- Writers:
- Ishana Shyamalan, A.M. Shine
- Aka:
- The Watchers
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
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Reviews (3) of The Watched
Muddled - more plotholes thasn plot - The Watched review by AER
A very interesting horror is messed up by over-complication and a story full of gigantic nonsensical plotholes. Shame as it is original at times and a committed cast work hard to sell its interesting ideas. It's not at all scary or tense either.
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Boring nonsense - The Watched review by Alphaville
For most of its run-time this low-budget piece of tosh has four people stuck in an Irish forest cabin being watched by unseen creatures. It’s basically a drama-free stage-play with added foliage. How did it ever get the green light? Could it be coincidence that the director is M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter and slumming it in the lead role is Dakota Fanning?
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Average Folklore Horror - The Watched review by GI
A suitably eerie and atmospheric folklore horror set in the wilds of Ireland and with Dakota Fanning bringing a little star quality to a film that has so many similarities tother o films of this type. So you have the deep, dark forest into which people stumble, inexplicably of course, and lots of dark shadows and strange creatures that are up to something. Directed by Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night, who here emulates his style in bringing atmosphere and mystery but also the need to over explain the plot. Fanning plays Mina, an American living in Ireland, who has a disturbed past, and who breaks down in a forest that doesn't appear on the maps. She gets lost and bizarrely wanders off the beaten track only to find three others led by Madeleine (Olwen Fouéré), who tells her she can't leave the forest as they are imprisoned by ancient creatures that study them at night. Mina is having none of it as you'd guess and plots her way out discovering various facts etc on the way. The film takes far too long to show you much although there's long conversations to fill in the gaps. There's some intrigue but overall it's an average pagan style horror that we've all seen before.
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