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Clea DuVallElizabeth WhitmereJames A. WoodsVictoria Sanchez
DIRECTOR
Jim Donovan
SYNOPSICS
The Watch (2008) is a English movie. Jim Donovan has directed this movie. Clea DuVall,Elizabeth Whitmere,James A. Woods,Victoria Sanchez are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. The Watch (2008) is considered one of the best Drama,Horror,Mystery,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
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Decent enough definitely not hack and slash
Just watched this film myself, I was intrigued by the trailer (watching another movie) and when I saw it in the video store I grabbed it to watch. I felt it was an okay movie but definitely something I'd recommend you watch either on TV or wait till its in the 2-3 dollar rental range. The films not hack and slash so if you like your horror films to be the bunch of obnoxious teens get killed in a variety of bloody way's plot look elsewhere. If you like a slowly developing film with a mental focus then this is a good enough choice, the ending wasn't what I was expecting certainly. However its this ending where the film's biggest problem lies in my opinion as it drags on just long enough to make you think something else is coming (particularly given some events that aren't explained, some of which are happen during this conclusion) but it doesn't.
Had Potential
First of all, this film is the first horror for a long time to give me chills. Some scenes are genuinely spooky. Unfortunately it peters out in the last third! The setting is perfect, a young woman isolated in a forest, completely alone. It is built up slowly, but felt just right, the early 'shock' moments work well. In fact, it built up perfectly, so much that I was thinking this could be a great film! But then, there is always 'the twist'. Most twists are at least intriguing, some are brilliant, this one kills the film. And the ending is well....kinda not in the film. If I was to draw a graph on the films enjoyment level, it would be a slow consistent incline, then a sharp decline in the last 3rd, kinda like a ramp. could of been so much better. 5/10
Ultra Creepy
The Watch premiered on LMN tonight, and it is one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen on this channel. It is also excellent. Clea DuVall is Cassie, a graduate student who accepts a position as a fire lookout in a watch tower for one month by her lonesome. During this month of essentially total seclusion surrounded by miles and miles of vast forest, she will finish her thesis. At least that is the plan... This TV movie is truly chilling. DuVall is an exquisite casting choice--her acting chops are top notch and it shows. Hunky James A. Woods is also quite good here, and Elizabeth Whitmere is realistic in the best friend role to DuVall. Scenic locations, a sharp score, and solid pacing elevate this flick above some other made-for-TV movies of late. Check it out if you happen upon it.
Tense and Claustrophobic, but with a Disappointing Conclusion
At the age of nine, Cassie Malloy was kidnapped and locked in a basement for two days. Nineteen years later, the traumatized Cassie (Clea Duvall) studies psychology at the Braxton University and needs to work on her thesis. Cassie decides to accept a four-week job working alone in an isolated fire watch tower in the forest to vanquish her demons from the past. Cassie leaves her best friend Andrea (Elizabeth Whitmere) and travels to the spot, where she meets the forest guard Rhett (James A. Woods) that brings Cassie to the tower. Cassie feels the effect of the isolation and experiences weird things but she is comforted by Polly, the lookout of the east tower. When Rhett visits Cassie, she learns that Polly died five years ago in a fire. Cassie decides to quit her job, but Rhett recalls her that she signed a contract and he needs at least two days to find a replacement. Cassie agrees to stay while Andrea receives a strange phone call for Cassie. "The Watch" is a tense and claustrophobic thriller, but with a disappointing conclusion. The writer Ben Ripley and the director Jim Donovan lost the opportunity of making a great supernatural story; with minor modifications, giving an ambiguous or a horror ending, this film would be excellent. Nevertheless, Clea Duvall gives a great performance in the role of a woman traumatized in her childhood that wants to defeat her demons. The talented Elizabeth Whitmere is not only a beautiful and sexy actress, but has a wonderful voice. My vote is five. Title (Brazil): "Passado de Horror" ("Past of Horror")
Alone in the Woods
****SPOILERS**** Somewhat ridicules horror movie that doesn't seem to know where its going and ends up, with its off the wall surprise ending,more confusing then ever. We get to see Cassie, Clea Duvall, in trying to finish her post graduate thesis on the subject of total isolation sent packing by her collage and put in this observation tower in the scenic Ohekawan Forest for a month. This in order to see if she can cope by being alone there without cracking up under the strain. Cassie has already been traumatized when she was kidnapped and locked into a dark room when she was seven. The experience here doesn't help her mental state anymore then her kidnapping did some 19 years ago. It's within two days of her being alone that Cassie starts to lose it in her hearing and seeing things in the forest and observation tower that are not supposed to be there. It's the young and handsome John Trovalta looking forest ranger Rhett, James A. Woods, who's supervising this crazy experiment and he seems as if he's either trying to drive Cassie insane or is just an innocent pawn in all this just like Cassie is. It's by now, after two days of this insanity, that Cassie has just about had it and wants to leave the tower and forest for good but events, like the ghosts of Ohekawan Forest's past, prevent her from doing that. It's Cassie's good friend from collage Andera, Elizabeth Whitmare, who finds out from Cassie's collage professor Dr.Miller, Robert Reynolds, that someone has broken into his office and stolen Cassie's personal files! Andera soon comes to realize that what's happening to Cassie is not an accident supernatural or even the result of her fragile mental state. Somebody is playing with Cassie's mind and manipulating her deepest fears for his or her own selfish purposes. In fact this entire experiment wasn't authorized by Dr.Miller at all! But by persons unknown in them trying to push Cassie's buttons in order to see just how much of this isolation she can take before she finally goes off the deep end! ***SPOILERS*** Totally unsatisfying ending has what seems to be a real ghost appear out of thin air and end up terrorizing not only Cassie but the entire movie cast. This is done so shabbily that for a moment your not quite sure who the ghost is using as it host in that when you finally think that you've got a handle on what's going on when the ghost ends up being exorcised by fire. It's then without warning or explanation that the ghost suddenly reappears again,in what seems like a different identity, just like you would see happening in a street corner "Three Card Monty" game! But by then your so fed up with all this game playing that the movies sloppy attempt to scare the living hell out of you, as well as Cassie, has just about lost all it's punch and ends up falling flat on its face ending up just where it started: Totally in the dark!