It would be easy enough to inventory all the ways Ishana Night Shyamalan's debut feature evokes the films of her father; in fact, it's harder to identify anything in The Watchers that doesn't seem at least partially borrowed from M. Night's formidable oeuvre...
Whether this pileup of all-in-the-family auteurist tropes is derivative or daring is very much in the eye of the beholder; either way, with Dad moonlighting as a producer, it was inevitable that matters of lineage would make The Watchers a conversation piece...
"It's really about meeting that privilege and honoring that with as hard a work ethic as we can," said the 24-year-old filmmaker, who apprenticed as a second unit director on Old and Knock at the Cabin...
As a piece of direction, The Watchers is about on par with Ishana's work on the underrated Apple TV+ original series Servant; she likes shooting at odd angles and meticulous detailing...
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