Who’s ready for some creepy, living-in-a-fishbowl vibes interlarded with what sounds like the eerie warblings of a theremin? If you’ve raised your hand, then The Watchers, a film adaptation of A.M. Shine’s eponymous horror novel, might be the movie for you.
The adaptation comes from writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan and is produced by her father, the veteran horror filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Warner Bros. released a trailer of the film today, which captures a claustrophobic retro aesthetic (shout out here to composer Abel Korzeniowski, assuming what we hear in the trailer is a sampling of the score for the film). The clip also teases invisible, sinister beings who like to watch people trapped in a literal glass house (well, one wall at least) in the woods.
What exactly is going on? The trailer is purposefully opaque about that, beyond conveying that things aren’t great for the humans trapped inside.
Here’s the official synopsis, which doesn’t give us much more to go on:
Mina, a 28-year-old artist, gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
You can’t see them, but they see everything.
The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as Mina, as well as Georgina Campbell (Barbarian, Suspicion), Oliver Finnegan (Creeped Out, Outlander), and Olwen Fouere (The Northman).
We can all watch them ourselves when the movie premieres in theaters in North America on June 7, 2024.
Check out the trailer below.
