Summary
M.Night’s nepobaby tries to make a film like her dad.
Dakota Fanning has a lot of bad luck picking projects. It is a shame for her as she deserved better than this.
The film has a group of people get lost in a wood and then they have to perform every night for the watchers, shapeshifting creatures trying to mimic humans, they have to escape and one of them follows the gang back to civilisation. That’s the whole plot summed up for you in two and a bit lines, the film goes on and on about its lore as though it is the most interesting thing in the world, it seems to think it is incredibly deep when it actual fact you can see the bottom.
The twist is that it is not Fanning’s character that is the watcher but rather the old woman who has been menacing but is supposedly a goody. Again this twist is so obvious that M. Night would have laughed and thrown it in the fire and questioned whether what he had for dinner that night was throwing him off. Here however, it is treated as though it is clever. It is not.
Moreover, the villainous fairies from Irish myth have been cropping up a lot recently in horror and as such I didn’t find them all that scary as it was just the same thing again. They are freaky to look at in their watching mode, but other than that there is nothing really scary about this film either.
Overall, M. Night should give his daughter some lessons and help her learn how to make a good twist.
2/5
Pros.
The watchers are freaky to look at when not human
It has a good atmosphere, that it does nothing with
Cons.
The twist is terrible
It is not deep
It isn’t scary
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