The Watchers review: Ishana Night Shyamalan's wobbly horror baby steps

There’s a simplicity to writer/director Ishana Night Shyamalan’s feature debut, The Watchers, an adaptation of the novel by A.M. Shine. The horror fairy...

In moody but conventional horror film from Ishana Night Shyamalan — daughter of M. Night — Dakota Fanning plays the prisoner of mysterious creatures in t...

Ishana Night Shyamalan’s debut film, The Watchers, shows great potential in the horror genre.

Adapting A.M. Shine’s novel, writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan doesn’t go for the throat with “The Watchers.” Will audiences respond?

Read Empire's review of Ishana Night Shyamalan's moody horror – also known as The Watchers in the US and elsewhere.

If her father’s work has a pulpy, moral earnestness to it, Ishana Night Shyamalan is interested in folklore, paganism and the gothic

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Manuel Betancourt and Tim Cogshell review the latest releases on FilmWeek.

The film's first-time director, Ishana Night Shyamalan, has a family history of summoning genre menace — and also, unfortunately, a penchant for twist endi...

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Ishana Night Shyamalan’s debut film is a twisty, high-concept mystery/dark fairy tale. It’s also a pale imitation of her father’s patented style.

M. Night Shyamalan productions resemble but don't match his own work, even when made by his daughter Ishana. Our The Watchers review:

'The Watchers' is rooted in Celtic folklore, but Ishana Night Shyamalan's script is uncertain about what it wants to say about that myth.

Starring Dakota Fanning, the Irish shows Ishana has inherited M. Night Shyamalan’s taste for tinkering with the unseen.

Ishana Night Shyamalan’s debut film, The Watchers, finds a careful balance between the freaky and the mundane.

“The Watchers” is the directorial debut of M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter, Ishana. It starts off promising, but, in the family tradition, ends on shaky ...

Whether the pileup of all-in-the-family auteurist tropes is derivative or daring is very much in the eye of the beholder

M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter makes her directorial debut with a horror movie about reality TV and the strange creatures that watch it.