Movie Review: Deathwatch

-Deathwatch-
(2002, Directed by Michael J. Bassett)

Writer: Michael J. Bassett

Release Date: 6 December 2002

Genre: Drama | Horror | War | Thriller

Plot: In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other. Written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}

Tagline: Deliver them from evil

Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations
User Comments: Rain,mud,and lots of rats!

Intergalactical Frisbee: Review
Deathwatch, i liked this film. It was quirky, had a sting in the tale and had a cast of excellent characters, from a young and innocent Private who tries to understand the horrors of war, a man about to loose his faith in God, a solider who wants to survive the war with the minimum of guilt, a dying teenager, shot in the spine and unaware of the horrors to come and to a psychotic solider who will kill anyone, friend or foe. Add to this a German soldier, played with sinister and frightening conviction by unknown actor, Roman Horak and you have a film that you don't want to watch on your own!

I loved this movie, so I'm a little angry about everyone trashing it without understanding it. For anyone who has watched it and is wondering, what the f*** I invite you to look at the tagline. "Deliver them from evil." What does that suggest to you? Could it have religious significance? What do the cast say of what is stalking them? "Its Death!" The film is in fact a bloody good horror film set in WWI but it is also a religious tale in as much as the trench is Purgatory and every man jack of that squad is already dead. (Everyone see's hell as the thing they are most afraid of, and in these soldiers case what terrified them most was the war. So the trench is their Purgatory, yes?).

I finished watching this movie and thought to myself "Damn that's clever!" I mean, not to spoil the film for anyone, but it ends with all but one of the group sat around a fire in the deepest darkest depths while the star runs away from them and climbs up into the light and the mist. If there this were to be a clearer heaven and hell metaphor they'd have to hammer it into your head with a shovel. As to the dark eyed German soldier calmly waiting for the next group of unfortunates to judge... give him a cowl and a sycthe somebody? Enjoy this for the brilliant story telling and true art of in depth horror.

*****
#5 - Star
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