Deathwatch (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Spooky, gross and generally not nice in places.
Disadvantages: Thin characters.

...anything else. I found Deathwatch to have something of an identity crisis that didn’t necessarily detract from its effectiveness as a horror movie. It wasn’t sure whether it was a psychological, white-knuckle, tense creeper or a total gut spilling grossfest and flicked between the two, from the very moment a foot went through the chest cavity of an ageing corpse to the quasi-imaginary noises of warfare that built and built to a crescendo, the ... Read review

Advantages: Different plot
Disadvantages: Doesn't live up to expections

I got this film on video a few years ago when I thought that it would be a good film and had a interesting story line. Deathwatch is a horror film set during World War One but unlike the horrors of World War One where the armies form across Europe were subjected to horrors that no-one should have to face. World War One was a war of new technologies, old tactics and incompetent commanders cost the lives of millions of young men for the sake of a few ... Read review

Advantages: Spooky and Different
Disadvantages: Too Long

This film is set in the middle of the First world War and is about nine soldiers trapped behind enemy lines who take refuge in a complex network of German trenches. They are taking cover from the wrong enemy though. It is not the Germans they should be concerned with, as in these trenches there is a far more sinister and danderous enemy. The soldiers find themselves in the German trenches, but they are not alone. They search the trenches to find ... Read review

Advantages: Spooky,
Disadvantages: no sequal

I hired out this film just for curiosity and found it to be quite intresting. While it runs along the lines of being a war film, the horror side is good too but could do with a little more work. Set in the first word war in France, a group of men stranded after an overnight battle of hell come across a abandoned german trence with a few germans in it. They shoot the germans except one which they take hostage who seemes very hysterical. The film brings ... Read review