Title: Watcher
My Rating: 👎🏻
Released: 2022
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: Chloe Okuno
Actors: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman
Setting: Current Day – Bucharest, Romania
Where to watch: Netflix
Plot: A young American actress moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.
My Opinion:
Don’t get this movie confused with the television series “The Watcher” by creators Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy.
While it was nice to see a film based in Romania, the movie was far too obvious and they made it look gloomy and depressing. Plus the fact that when they are speaking in Romanian, there are no English Subtitles, which made absolutely no sense and thank God for my husband who could translate for me.
The main actress, Maika Monroe, plays Julia who is a lonely housewife in a foreign country with a paranoia that she is being stalked by a serial killer. Maika Monroe did a fabulous job in the role, playing the part perfectly and it makes you wonder if she is actually being stalked or not. Though I had never seen her in anything prior, I would definitely watch more of her work. Julia’s husband Francis, played by Karl Glusman, is your typical workaholic who leaves his wife home alone all the time to fend for herself and not believing her “paranoid” ramblings.
The scenario is typical and rather obvious and to be frank, disappointing. Though the actor who played the “Watcher” did a great job at giving you that creepy, shivers down your spine feeling with his demeanor and appearance. However the writers lacked creativity in the plot.
My husband didn’t mind the movie, stating it was a one time watch. I wouldn’t have wasted my time watching it if I knew it would be that lackluster. I give it positives for the actors chosen for their respective roles and that it was directed by a woman, but this is not worth the watch in my opinion. It had so much potential and really just flopped.
I really wanted to love this one too for the shear fact it was a serial killer thriller. Those are some of my favourite movies.
Thumbs down….sorry!
Mama on the Move 
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