The Watchers (2024) | Book vs Movie Horror Review

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • Is the new horror movie The Watchers (2024) worth your time? Watch and find out the SPOILER-FREE section and find out...then comeback for a small spoiler-filled rant ;)
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  • @seagull8415
    @seagull8415 2 месяца назад +6

    Read the book loved the feeling of inescapable doom, but the ending was kind of meh. That said the subtext of being stuck in a rut and lack of ambition or agency was quite interesting.

  • @CarolineCP
    @CarolineCP 2 месяца назад +6

    Great review!
    To me, the movie suffered so much from clumsy exposition, especially from the dialogs. And I missed the desperation (and dirt) you´d expected stranded characters to have.
    (Also I´d like the importance of the light in the book, it gave a further feeling of dread and urgency than a quite vague "when the sun disappears" didn´t)

    • @HollywoodxBettie
      @HollywoodxBettie 2 месяца назад +1

      Yes! I even said to myself when Mina got in the shower after their escape and we saw the dirty water, "oh now there's dirt??"

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад +1

      one thing the book definitely did was convey how the characters physically were affected by being in the coop...agree that they were all waaaaaay too clean LOL

  • @abdallah6757
    @abdallah6757 2 месяца назад +1

    That would’ve been a horrible and predictable ending. I think it’s much creepier that she convinced it to go, but it’s still watching her

  • @eronj5824
    @eronj5824 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for this breakdown. I’ve been looking for one😄

  • @Rosesbuds3222
    @Rosesbuds3222 2 месяца назад +2

    Do you get more folklore in the book? I just watched the movie and want more info on the creatures and was hoping to read the book for more backstory. What do you think

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад +2

      no, not really. they kept that pretty much the same

  • @jtru0
    @jtru0 2 месяца назад +2

    I enjoyed this book, haven't watched the movie yet. I want more fae as creatures stories!

  • @edwardpolenzani1039
    @edwardpolenzani1039 2 месяца назад +1

    I feel like you’re suggested ending, while more cinematic, is too much like Jordan Peele’s “Us” twist

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад +1

      and like a lot of other movie twists lol I just think it would've fit what they set up better, that's all :)

  • @woodsro
    @woodsro 2 месяца назад +1

    I'd agree the technical aspects of the film were great here. I haven't read the book but even just watching the film it FELT like an awkward adaptation.

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад +1

      at least that was consistent whether you read the book or not lol

  • @mystic5059
    @mystic5059 2 месяца назад +1

    Do you recommend the book or are you just saying the book is better than the movie? Thank you.💖

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад +2

      the book was definitely better, but not my favorite book i've ever read.

  • @DM-pi8jj
    @DM-pi8jj 2 месяца назад

    I haven't seen the movie but watched the spoiler part anyway and I like your idea for the ending! Too bad they didn't do that. I did like the book though. I initially did not like the ending until I found out there's a sequel coming out so I'm excited for that!

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад

      whaaaaaat?!? I didn't know about the sequel! how interesting!!!

    • @DM-pi8jj
      @DM-pi8jj 2 месяца назад

      @@NightmareMaven YES! My library book actually contained the first chapter of it and it sounds interesting. I checked and it's suppose to come out this fall

  • @illmeans
    @illmeans 2 месяца назад

    the movie was visually stunning, the script was weak. I also thought Mina's backstory in the movie was setting it up for her to be a halfling, which I think could have been nice deviation. She likes pretending to be other people at night, she was mimicking her mother as a child. Then it could be revealed somehow, a traditional changeling story took place where Lucy and Mina were switched but somehow the mother kept both children.

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад +1

      yes!!! exactly!!!! idk why they set that up about her character just for it to be a weak metaphor for ANOTHER character....so weird

  • @forevermoodreading
    @forevermoodreading 2 месяца назад

    That's a shame. I think I'll wait until it's free for me. After reading I was hoping they'd change the ending for the movie too.
    Side note, have you read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix? I'd love to see a video on that and The Village. It was my favorite book as a kid and I was very upset when the movie came out.

    • @NightmareMaven
      @NightmareMaven  2 месяца назад

      i actually never read any of her books! I'll check it out!

  • @wilde33
    @wilde33 Месяц назад

    Book was way way WAY better than the movie. I actually hated the movie. Characters non existent, unnecessary changes, no atmosphere at all.