Better Watch Out

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

Cast

Olivia DeJonge

as Ashley

Levi Miller

as Luke

Ed Oxenbould

as Garrett

Aleks Mikic

as Ricky

Dacre Montgomery

as Jeremy

Patrick Warburton

as Robert Lerner

Virginia Madsen

as Deandra Lerner

Alexandra Matusko

as Scary Movie Girl

Georgia Holland

as Scary Movie Girl

Beau Andre

as The Mangler

Reviews

Simon Foster

"In an alternate mid-80’s universe, director Joe Dante’s follow-up to his grim Yuletide fairy tale Gremlins would have been Safe Neighborhood, a crisp, crackling, black and bloody Christmas comedy/horror..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2016/11/30/safe-ne...

Frank Ochieng

The holidays are approaching as we prepare to reach the end of the year but director/co-writer Chris Peckover wants to beat the chaotic Christmas rush by offering some creepy coal in his cinematic stockings–most notably a merry-minded macabre middle finger to the Yuletide season in the charmingly tw...

Gimly

Maybe _Better Watch Out_ isn't a **great** movie. But after the trudge I've gone through this year, it's nice to finally see something that's at least **different**. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._...

John Chard

Yuletide log slips from the fire to ignite the Xmas horror movie sub-genre. Lets have it right, the 1/10 reviews are from hardcore horror fans who just didn't get the horror experience they was looking for. That's understandable, it's one of the toughest genres to please given the broadness avail...

Kamurai

Fantastic watch, would watch again, and do recommend. This is a movie that is almost impossible to talk about, it is so twisted and refreshing on so many levels. Just the premise of a home invasion is enough to make for a potentially good movie on its own, which is why it's basically an entire g...

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