Like her dad M. Night’s recent output, Ishana Shyamalan’s feature-directing debut fails to engage.

NOW IN THEATERS! When I was young, seeing M. Night Shyamalan's name on a movie poster filled me with excitement because I knew it would be 2 hours spent on the edge of my seat. In the last decade or so, my overly optimistic expectations for Shyamalan has wavered. But with The Watchers, a new name,

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From its high-concept premise & elegant direction to its clunky dialogue and twist, "The Watchers" continues the Shyamalan family brand in every way.

Starring Dakota Fanning, this supernatural horror shows Ishana has inherited a taste for tinkering with the unseen and incomprehensible.

If anything could revive the worn-out nepotism discourse, it would be this summer's horror offerings. In August we have M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming thriller, Trap, built around an arena show for a pop superstar played by his pop-singer daughter, Saleka. And this Friday you can catch the directorial debut of his other daughter, Ishana Night

Shyamalan 2.0 takes a big swing into dark fairy tale territory, but the results are punishingly boring

A second-generation Shyamalan’s first movie makes for undercooked horror in “The Watchers.”

The twist? It’s not very good

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

Ishana Night Shyamalan has big things ahead of her, hopefully including some storytelling lessons.

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

It isn't scary, with even the best-engineered "gotchas" landing flat. Kind of a big deal when you're making a horror film. It's joyless and humorless to boot, with slick production design that imagines a creature-inhabited "forest" on an island generally forest-free (but not around Wicklow) -- Ireland. "The Watchers," adapted from a novel by Irish…

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

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

Dakota Fanning stars in Ishana Night Shyamalan's glossy woodland horror thriller. The twist? The film is more promising than good.

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

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

Should you watch ‘The Watcher’ this weekend? M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter makes her directorial debut with a horror movie about a reality show for supernatural beings starring Dakota Fanning.

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

Ishana Night Shyamalan does the family name relatively proud with a thriller that’s more fun and suspenseful before the big answers arrive.

M. Night Shyamalan produces the directorial debut of Ishana Shyamalan, who directed several episodes of "Servant."

“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 ground.

Movie review, 'The Watchers': Ishana Night Shyamalan's debut film is bogged down by underwhelming twists and thin characterizations.

The Watchers, the feature debut of director IshanaNight Shyamalan, has the goods to assemble a compelling trailer. Sadly, itlacks the goods to make a compelling movie. With an uneven tone, a poorlyconstructed narrative, cheesy dialogue, stilted ...

Writer-director Ishana Shyamalan gives us a cabin in the woods, four prisoners and something wicked programming its own supernatural Reality TV show.

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

Ishana Shyamalan shows flashes of inspiration in this portentous horror mystery, but her dad’s sixth sense for scares isn’t quite there yet

Ishana Night Shyamalan's film debut is here with the mystery-thriller "The Watchers," but did she inherit her father's knack for compelling stories and twists?

Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night, adapts A.M. Shine’s novel with Dakota Fanning as a woman lost in a forest full of monsters. In theaters now.

Dakota Fanning stars in the horror movie "The Watchers," the directorial debut of filmmaker Ishana Shyamalan.

In moody but conventional thriller from Ishana Night Shymalan — daughter of M. Night — Dakota Fanning plays the prisoner of mysterious creatures in the woods.

Should you watch ‘The Watcher’ this weekend? M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter makes her directorial debut with a horror movie about a reality show for supernatural beings starring Dakota Fanning.

Dakota Fanning plays a woman trapped in an Irish forest with three strangers in Ishana Night Shyamalan's folkloric horror debut, 'The Watchers.