WWI Has Never Been So Terrifying as In This Powerful 23-Year-Old Horror Movie
M. J. Bassett’s debut feature film,Deathwatch, received only a very limited release (several film festivals, then straight to DVD) when it first came out in 2002. Additionally, it garneredpredominantly negative reviewsand still holds adismal 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As a result, thisBritish horrorisn’t as widely recognized as it deserves, despite the fact that itfeatures a bunch of great performancesby such actors asJamie BellandAndy Serkis. Not only was it one of the scariest films to emerge in the early aughts,it also remains the most effective horror film set in the middle of the WWI trenches, even more than two decades after its premiere....