52 Films by Women Vol 8. 23. The Watched (Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan)
Pictured : 'Mirror, mirror.' Mina ( Dakota Fanning ) faces life being observed by nocturnal animals in a scene from ' The Watched ' (aka 'The Watchers'), adapted from A. M. Shine 's 2021 and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan . Still courtesy of Warner Bros . If Rebecca Miller and Sofia Coppola can be unfairly referred to as a ‘nepo babies’, what of Ishana Night Shyamalan, the latest daughter of a famous artist who has ostensibly jump-started a career behind the camera as writer-director thanks to family connections? Her film, known in the UK as The Watched but in other territories as The Watchers or perhaps, given the low box office to date, ‘The Great Unwatched’, is ostensibly a supernatural tale in the vein of the work of her father, M. Night Shyamalan. There is no doubt that M. Night helped – his company produced the film. While some dads buy their daughters a new car for their 21 st birthday, M. Night acquired the rights of A. M. Shine’s 2021 novel,...