10 Forgotten Horror Movies From The Early 2000s

You would think it'd be rather pointless to make a WWI horror movie. WWI being such a horrific chapter in human history already, adding ghosts and ghouls into the mix - well, who'd notice, frankly? And indeed, Deathwatch feels like a war movie that took a wrong turn at Transylvania and stumbled into horror on accident. Fortunately, Deathwatch is aware of this, and plays into it to add to the horror. 

The best part of Deathwatch is the scale and detail in its portrayal of the war, on such a measly budget. The opening scene manages, through clever lighting and editing, to make a few dozen soldiers feel like hundreds. When the movie settles into the trenches that will be the setting for the rest of the film, the startling attention to detail gives the viewer such a cold, wet, dreary sense of place. 

What makes the film so effective is that you're never given all of the answers on whether there is something evil in the trenches with these men, if the shellshock of the war has just driven them all crazy, or if they all died in the opening and this is their purgatory. 

Deathwatch is a bleak, stark look into the bowels of human nature, like all great WWI movies, but with that extra horror twist to make it stand out. Not perfect, but definitely worth a watch.