Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Uriah43 This movie begins with an explosion of a laboratory in a remote part of the Pacific Northwest. As it turns out this government lab was conducting secret genetic experiments on animals and two of its creatures managed to escape. The first is a unique golden retriever which is extremely intelligent and can communicate to a certain degree with human beings. The second creature is a horrible monster which is equally intelligent but is emotionally deranged and kills everything in its path. And the one thing it wants to kill above everything else is the golden retriever. That being the case, it tracks the dog to a barn where a young woman named "Tracey" (Lala Sloatman) just happens to be working. Being the hostile creature it is, it immediately attacks her and then kills her father when he attempts to come to her aid. Fortunately for Tracey, however, is the fact that the police arrive just in time to scare it away. After that, because of her injuries, she is taken to a hospital for medical care. However, when her boyfriend "Travis Cornell" (Corey Haim) comes to see her he discovers that she has been taken to an undisclosed location by mysterious people who turn out to be NSO agents trying to keep a lid on everything--and they will stop at nothing to prevent any information from getting out. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a relatively standard sci-fi/horror film which was pretty much predictable from start to finish. That said, while it certainly wasn't a great movie by any means, I suppose it was worth the time spent and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.

ProgressiveHead Based on Dean Koontz's breakthrough bestseller published the previous year, Watchers takes the same central idea of the book - a secret government agency is creating super-intelligent creatures. The film proper opens with the explosion of a large government research facility. A golden retriever and a savage beast escape the facility. Another early scene finds teenager Travis Cornell (Corey Haim) rendezvousing with his girl Tracey at the barn at her house, before having to make a hasty exit when Tracey is sought out by her suspicious dad. As Travis starts to drive away, the golden retriever jumps into the back of his pickup. Soon after, Tracey is attacked, but not killed by the savage beast and ends up in the hospital. Here she is questioned and then kidnapped by two government agents who work for an outfit called the NSO. The more sadistic agent is played by Michael Ironside (Top Gun, Scanners, Total Recall, Starship Troopers). The agenda and motives of these agents actions is only partly explained.Some early scenes involving Travis and the golden retriever bonding have a winning Lassie-adventure-story charm to them. What is unfortunate is the radical shift away from a central theme of the book - individuals ability to find emotional rehabilitation through love and community.The central storyline in both the book and the film - of super- intelligent creatures created to perform specific tasks, remains interesting. However, the film manages to fall into a lot of b-movie clichés, while ignoring many of the tense and compelling set-pieces of the novel.However, if you like 80s horror, and/or Corey Haim and don't mind a bit of cheesy dialogue, you may enjoy some of what's on offer here.

Aaron1375 When I saw this movie I certainly did not think it was an award winning movie or all that good, but it was okay. It passed the time, had an interesting enough story, add some more gore and kills and it might have been a really good horror movie. Like I said in my summary though, I have heard from many people the book is better, but then when have you not heard that cry when a book is made into a movie. This one is about a boy who finds a dog, what could be more touching than that. In fact I would have to say a bit to much time in the film is used exploring their budding friendship rather than on the super creature that is now coming for said boy and dog. Which there is a creature of super power homing in on the boy and his dog, killing those that get in its way. The boy finally finds out about this and he and the dog and I think the mother go into a cabin and have a final showdown with said monster. You will not get to see said monster all that much and there could have been a few more kills or something, but for the most part I found the movie entertaining. I would compare it to another Corey Haim horror movie "Silver Bullet", both are horrors that need more horror, but both can be called okay...just kind of fluffy.

The_Void I would consider myself a fan of Dean Koontz; having read a number of his novels and liked them all, but unfortunately I never got around to reading Watchers so I'm left with no choice but to rate this film on it's own merits rather than comparing it to the book that I haven't read. I went into this expecting something awful, and while I didn't exactly get a brilliant horror film; I am lead to believe that it's fans of the book that are rating it down because as a film in it's own right, Watchers is an entertaining and somewhat original little horror movie. The plot obviously takes some influence from Predator and begins with an explosion at a research lab. It's not long before a rancher is killed by some strange beast and the boyfriend of the dead man's daughter has picked up an ultra-intelligent runaway dog. A secret Government agency is soon on the case, as the murders continue. The boy continues to be fascinated by the dog's intelligence, but it somehow ties in with the murders and the agency is soon on his tail too.The script for this film was originally written by Paul Haggis, who later disowned it. I don't know why – the writing here is nowhere near as ridiculous as his 2004 hit Crash! Anyway, the main reason this film works is undoubtedly the dog, who aside from being rather cute, is also the best actor in the film. Corey Haim, hot off the success of The Lost Boys is the human lead and actually has a rather good chemistry with the dog, although it is a little bit ridiculous seeing him talk to it most of the way through the film. The plot is rather convoluted and as such the film is more than a little bit messy; but the ridiculousness of it all pulls it through during the more awkward moments. Michael Ironside also appears in the film and does well as the 'bad cop' side of the Government agents. The monster is, of course, one of the most interesting things about the film and the way it goes around killing people is always entertaining and gory; although unfortunately we don't get to see a lot of it and when we finally do it's rather disappointing - obviously the filmmakers had seen Bigfoot and the Hendersons! Still, this is the sort of film that can be easily enjoyed despite the numerous problems and I'd recommend to any undiscerning viewer of eighties horror.