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A young artist trapped in an Irish forest with strangers stalked by mysterious creatures.
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This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. 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. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time. Afraid and trapped among strangers, Mina is desperate for answers. Who are the Watchers, and why are they keeping the humans imprisoned, keen to watch their every move.
"The Watchers is a film that makes us question: like father, like daughter? After all, this feature film that blends M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), and marks her feature film debut. In the story, a young woman (Dakota Fanning) gets lost in a forest that is not on any map, and there, in the middle of nowhere, she encounters a group that must follow the rules of mysterious creatures to survive the night. Following in her father's footsteps, Ishana includes a good dose of plot twist here, delivering a story with equal capacity to inspire both love and (a lot of) hate."