The Watchers

Mina is an artist whose car breaks down on a remote road in the west of Ireland. She walks into a forest that runs on far longer than any map allows, and night falls before she finds a way out. A woman calls to her from the door of a concrete bunker and tells her to come inside before it is too late.

Inside, Mina meets three other people who are trapped there. The bunker holds a room the group calls the coop, with one wall made of glass and a light that burns all night. The captives must stay in view of the glass while unseen creatures gather in the dark outside and look in at them.

The creatures are the Watchers, changelings out of ancient Irish folklore. They are shapeshifters who study their captives in order to learn how to pass as human. The group lives by strict rules: stay in the light, never enter the burrows, and keep the door locked until dawn.

Mina and the others have to get through each night and work out why they have been caged. This is gothic horror, claustrophobic and steeped in folklore, with the action held to a single bunker and a forest that offers no way out.