Deathwatch: Blood, guts, and atmosphere …

You know, it’s not that often I sit meself down with a film, these days.

Well.

Not without company, that is.

But with Kevin D*, and everyone else being un-available, tonight … ?

I felt I had two options.

Either watch some of the stuff showing on TV, tonight.

Or catch one of the films I’ve had sitting around.

I’ll be honest … ?

I went for the latter.

After all …

I’ve had the 2002, Jamie Bell film, Deathwatch, sitting around for a while.

So, of course, thought, “Oh, what the heck … ?”

So quite happily decided that giving it a whirl may well be the thing …

I’m glad I did, actually …

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Deathwatch sees Jamie Bell as a young army Private with a company of British soldiers during World War 1.

A company that manages to get itself lost, whilst under fire, and stumbling into a German trench system they can’t find on any given map.

Not only is the trench system not locatable, it also seems to be very had to use the radio from.

And on top of that … ?

On top of that, the trench system itself seems to be actively killing off any and all who stumble into it: including several German squaddies the company find there.

Of the three survivors our heroes find … ?

Only one — Friedrich — survives …

And I’d love to say he meets a sticky end, but …

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Now …

Hmmm …

Now, I’m going to be thoroughly honest, here, and tell I’m I’m still a touch uncertain of Deathwatch.

It’s a very good Anglo-Czech production, although one I felt was outdone — performance and budget-wise — by the 2008 horror, Outpost: what’s more, Outpost had a much more Lovecraftian feel to it I felt appropriate to the genre.

Saying that … ?

Saying that, Deathwatch was and is a well made 94 minute’s worth of entertainment.

Nicely acted, and shoot, and with a spooky feel I felt had been inspired — to an extent — by the original Wickerman that made it a pleasant way of passing the time.

Go see Deathwatch.

Let me know what you think.

Deathwatch

Nice but not totally forgettable ★½☆☆☆

* Kevin, bless him, had been over his parent’s place, all day, giving his mum’s Windoze based laptop a going over. You can imagine what I said, can’t you … ?