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‘The Watchers’ Review: Ishana Night Shyamalan’s Folk-Horror Tale Gets Lost In Its Own Plot


‘The Watchers’ review: Ishana Night Shyamalan’s rambling folk-horror tale gets lost in its own plot

Inside the cabin, AKA “The Coop”, the woman introduces herself as Madeline (Olwen Fouéré), and Mina meets the other residents: Ciara ( Georgina Campbell) and Daniel (Oliver Finnegan). The Coop is a simple, four-walled room with a vast two-way mirror, and, later that night, Mina joins hands with the other three to make her debut in front of the creatures that gather to watch on the other side. The Professor waffles on about all this stuff in the archaic .Mov files that Mina finds stashed on his old Apple Mac, and time genuinely seems to stand still as a tidal wave of exposition washes away any and all sense of dread that has been building up.

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