Deathwatch

• Directed By: Michael J. Bassett
• Written By: Michael J. Bassett
• Country: UK
• Released: 2002
• Running Time: 94 min
• Buy It: Amazon
• Horror, Reviews

The other (earlier) film was Deathwatch, a British horror film set in the trenches of World War I. Another haunting, although this is more of a ‘haunted trench’ story in which a group of British soldiers get lost in the fog of battle and stumble on a German trench.

The trench is poorly defended – with most of the Germans being already dead – and is easily captured.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t just Germans in the trench.

Well acted throughout – with special kudos going to Andy ‘Gollum’ Serkis as the superbly deranged Quinn – the film ticks along in a reasonably linear fashion. The real star of this film, though, is the trench – murky, muddy and dangerous; there could be anything in there, and often is.

It’s a solid, if very linear, film but lacked any real scares and failed to engage on anything other than a superficial level.