Film: The Watchers
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett, Alistair Brammer, Hannah Howland, Oliver Finnegan, Charles Camrose
Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 102 min.

Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M Night Shyamalan, the man famous for creative kooky horror flicks, makes her debut as writer/director with this adaptation of A.M.Shine’s “The Watchers.” She must have thought it was a safe bet following in her father’s footsteps. Her work though is a bit too raw, whimsical and fantastic to work up scares as a horror flick.

The narrative zeros in on 28-year-old American artist Mina (Dakota Fanning), a lost soul living in Galway, as she spends her days working at a pet shop and her nights cosplaying at bars. Mina’s boss asks her to deliver a golden parrot to a zoo near Belfast and she has set out on the journey only to find that her fine running car has suddenly developed problems in the middle of nowhere, in Western Ireland. She promptly gets out with her caged parrot and wanders into the forest calling for help? She wanders around for a bit, circles back to where she left her car and finds that it’s not there, and then goes back into the forest.