Georgina Campbell is a must-watch actor on the rise in general, but as someone who calls horror her favorite genre, I can’t help but be especially enthusiastic about the force she’s becoming in that space in particular. Barbarian wound up being one of the biggest horror hits of 2022, securing a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, making $45 million worldwide on a reported $4 million production budget, and snagging spots on a slew of “best horror of the year” lists. Now Campbell’s got a role in a highly anticipated horror film of 2024, because it comes from the daughter of a genre legend, M. Night Shyamalan.
The feature film adaptation of the A.M. Shine novel, The Watchers, is directed by Ishana Shyamalan, yet another especially promising creator on the rise in horror. Campbell plays one of four strangers who get lost in the forest in western Ireland and must take refuge in The Coop. If they’re not locked in by nightfall, they’re at risk of being attacked and killed by “watchers,” creatures that observe the people living in The Coop at night.
With The Watchers now playing in theaters nationwide, I got the chance to have a brief chat with Campbell to discuss her journey in the genre thus far. She explained what made The Watchers a standout horror script, the backstory work she did for her character that went beyond the script and the book, the iconic horror film franchise she dreams of joining one day, and more. You can hear it all straight from Campbell in this interview!
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