Dakota Fanning Interview: The Watchers & the Horror Movie That Pushed Her to Her Limits

Dakota Fanning has done her fair share of genre projects over the years, but she’s in the midst of an especially epic horror movie one-two punch that could send her star soaring in that particular space. Fanning headlines Ishana Shyamalan’s (daughter of M. Night Shyamalan) highly anticipated feature directorial debut, an adaptation of the A.M. Shine novel, The Watchers. Fanning plays Mina in the film, a young woman who becomes stranded during a drive through the forest in western Ireland. She manages to find shelter, but “the coop” isn’t the safe haven she hoped for. Along with three others trapped there, Mina is watched and stalked by mysterious and dangerous creatures each night. After The Watchers hits theaters nationwide on June 7th, the next horror release on Fanning’s calendar will be The Strangers director Bryan Bertino’s new movie, Vicious. That one is said to follow a woman who’s given a strange gift from a late-night visitor. From there, she spends the night “fighting for her existence