Watcher

As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

Cast

Maika Monroe

as Julia

Karl Glusman

as Francis

Burn Gorman

as Watcher

Mãdãlina Anea

as Irina

Gabriela Butuc

as Flavia

Cristina Deleanu

as Eleonora

Ștefan Iancu

as Sebastian

Florian Ghimpu

as Officer Radu

Flaviu Crisan

as Simion

Ioana Abur

as Simion's Wife

Reviews

The Movie Mob

**Watcher's pace can sometimes feel haphazard or arbitrary, but the strong finale makes it all worthwhile.** The Watcher builds slowly, spending plenty of time emphasizing the main character's isolation and loneliness. Each passing moment of this slow burn accentuates the paranoia of being watche...

Nathan

_Watcher_ is a tense movie that does a great job building atmosphere and suspense, but that slow build is also to its detriment. As a horror fan, I am much more interested in movies that deliver intense tension leaving audiences at the edge of their seat. While this movie does attempt to deliver on ...

CinemaSerf

"Julia" (Maika Monroe) and her husband "Francis" (Karl Glusman) relocate from New York to his native Romania so he can take up a job in Bucharest. She has not a word of the native language, and so is pretty much on the back foot from the start as he goes to work each day leaving her to fend for hers...

Niko

This review contains minor spoilers - be warned. Watcher is a masterclass in subverting audience expectations. It starts out as a fairly generic "my neighbor might be a serial killer"-flick, but ends up being a lot deeper than that. What makes it stand out is how it manages to make the audience q...

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