The Watchers
The Watchers is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan in her directorial debut, produced by M. Night Shyamalan, and based on the 2021 novel by A.M. Shine. It stars Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré and Oliver Finnegan, and follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist who becomes trapped in a vast, untouched forest in the west of Ireland. Seeking shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are stalked by mysterious creatures every night.
Plot
Mina, an American immigrant working in a pet shop in Galway, Ireland, struggles to come to terms with the death of her mother, which she inadvertently caused fifteen years earlier, and is estranged from her twin sister Lucy. Mina's boss tasks her with delivering a valuable golden conure parrot to a zoo near Belfast. En route, her car breaks down, stranding her in a forest. Lost, she names the parrot Darwin. She follows an old woman, Madeline, to a bunker-like building, nicknamed "The Coop", and meets two other occupants, Ciara and Daniel. Madeline explains that mysterious entities called "The Watchers" observe the group through the mirrored window of the Coop every night.
More details
author | Ishana Shyamalan |
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director | Ishana Shyamalan |
editor | Job ter Burg |
genre | horror thriller |
keywords | aversion to sunlight belfast better mimic humans build bus stop capture changeling climb estrange fairy golden conure hatred hidden door how to late wife lung cancer mat mirrored window old woman on the road one night one-way mirror pet shop photophobia river shapeshifting strand twin sister underground tunnel |
musicBy | Abel Korzeniowski |
producer | Ashwin Rajan M. Night Shyamalan Nimitt Mankad |
productionCompany | Blinding Edge Pictures Inimitable Pictures |
publisher | New Line Cinema Warner Bros. Pictures |
recordedAt | Dublin Galway Wicklow |
theme | independent |