Deathwatch

Year: 2002

Director: Michael J. Bassett

Cast: Jamie Bell, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Mike Downey, Laurence Fox

IMDb: tt0286306

Audience score: 6.535

Theme / prize: competitie Golden Méliès

In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.