Deathwatch


Deliver them from evil
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.
Saturday 12 Apr 2003 | Paul Pritchard | Horror, Quick Takes