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Subject: The Watchers (2024)
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Dakota Fanning is an American girl, haunted by causing the death of her 
sister in a car accident when they both were young children, who becomes 
trapped in a room deep in an Irish forest that's guarded over by 
mythical Gaelic faeries with three others, four if you count one of the 
victims' husband who is condemned outside and always trying to get in. 
"They only come out at night," as the title of an old Edgar Winter album 
goes, and the victims are free to travel within a set boundary during 
daytime. During darkness, all the faeries come out to "watch" the 
victims through a two-way mirror in the room. Produced by M. Night 
Shyamalan and directed by (I assume) his daughter, who doesn't seem 
quite as shy in giving the audience a good view of "monster characters" 
as her famous dad is. Reminded me of M. Night's 2005 effort The Village 
in many ways and does have some genuinely scary scenes, particularly 
toward the end when we find one of the faeries can transform itself into 
other characters in the film. A solid directorial debut from M. Night's 
daughter, who may become as accomplished as Francis Ford Coppola's 
daughter Sofia someday.