The Watchers (2024)
Directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan
Written by Ishana Night Shyamalan
Starring Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouere, Oliver Finnigan
Release Date June 7th, 2024
Published June 10thth, 2024
The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, an emotionally scarred young woman hiding from her problems as an ex-pat in Ireland. She works for a pet shop and when her boss asks her to take a rare parrot to a zoo in Dublin she leaps at the chance to break the monotony of her life. This monotony includes encounters with strange men in bars while she's wearing a wig to hide her identity. What this proclivity has to do with the rest of the plot of The Watchers is up to you, I suppose.
While driving her new parrot friend to Dublin, Mina finds herself lost in a forest that doesn't appear to be on her map. When her vehicle breaks down, she gets out of the car and with her parrot, she goes searching for help. As the sun begins to go down, she starts hearing a strange rustling sound. Soon, she's beckoned to come into a strange looking building an urgent woman we will come to know as Madeleine (Olwen Fouere). She instructs Mina to stand in front a mirrored wall as 'the watchers' arrive to stare at them.
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