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      Watchers Reborn

      R 1998 1h 27m Horror List
      Reviews 14% 250+ Ratings Audience Score The government has lost control of the Outsider, an experimental life-form bred to kill. Seeking to cover up what's been done, agents from the National Security Agency start eliminating everyone involved with the project, which spurs Dr. Grace Hudson (Lisa Wilcox) to run for her life. She seeks out Jack Murphy (Mark Hamill), a detective whose partner was recently murdered by the Outsider. As government assassins close in, they must rely on the few resources they have left, including a dog. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Don't understand the subterranean ratings. Yeah, it's B, but that's already known. Mark Hamill is a down and out cop with history of bad luck. His sidekick is a animal scientist helping Mark protect a genius dog from an experiment gone wrong. There's a lot of good moments, and I think it's safe to say if not for the last 15 minutes of the movie, people might not have been left with such a bad taste in their mouths. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member I truthfully don't remember this movie... I will watch it again someday. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Watchers Reborn is only a slight improvement over the Corey Haim original. It's only just a little bit more like the book. The dog is done a little better here and is actually called Einstein instead of just Furface like he was in the Haim movie. Furface was only his nickname in the book, Einstein is his name. I also like how the dog is protective of people by trying to stir them away from the Outsider. That's more like the book as well. Mark Hamil doesn't really give a good performance in the lead but he's still better than Corey Haim lol. I'd just like to see a version that's not a B-Movie that's a 100% more like the book. In this movie and the Haim one they make Lem Johnson bad, the agent in charge of getting the dog and the Outsider . When he wasn't bad in the book, hell he even pittied the Outsider in the book. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member What a terrible movie, the only good parts were the Chewbacca jokes at Mark Hamill's expense. Other then that don't bother. The lines are delivered with no ethusiasim by the actors expect by maybe Hamill. Even then the lines are so corny most of the time, it wouldn't have made it any better. The effects are terrible, even for the time, and the story is lame and farfetched. Is it better then the others? I don't know, and having seen this one I can say I don't want to see the rest. "Well isn't this hartwarming? The whole familys here. The dad, the mom, the freak kid, and the talking dog" Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Luke Skywalker, Alice from Nightmare on Elm Street 4 and 5, Jason Vorhees from 7-10 in a cameo, all set up against a werewolf-type beast on the hunt. I thought this was kind of boring but somewhat entertaining if you geek out over the aforementioned names. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member READ THE DAMN BOOK. This movie is shit. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Even with intermittent sequences of action or bloodshed, the meandering plot makes the 83-minute runtime feel like more than two hours. Rated: 2/10 Sep 25, 2020 Full Review TV Guide Clearly, Roger Corman's production team intends to keep adapting Dean Koontz's novel Watchers until they get it right; if this fourth attempt is any indication, they're still a long way from that goal. Rated: 1/4 Jan 16, 2017 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 11, 2005 Full Review Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Skywalker succumbs to the dark side Rated: 1/5 May 6, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis The government has lost control of the Outsider, an experimental life-form bred to kill. Seeking to cover up what's been done, agents from the National Security Agency start eliminating everyone involved with the project, which spurs Dr. Grace Hudson (Lisa Wilcox) to run for her life. She seeks out Jack Murphy (Mark Hamill), a detective whose partner was recently murdered by the Outsider. As government assassins close in, they must rely on the few resources they have left, including a dog.
      Director
      John Carl Buechler
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 27m