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Jun 4, 2022 · Directed by Chloe Okuno from a script co-written by Okuno and Zack Ford, the film stars Maika Monroe in a powerful performance as Julia, a young woman who moves to Bucharest, Romania, when...
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May 30, 2022 · Okuno is more concerned with one simple message: believe women. Her heroine Julia (Maika Monroe) never doubts her suspicions and fears, and never has to, because every man around her...
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Much of Watcher centers on loneliness, as Maika Monroe plays Julia, who used to be an actress in America, but who is now a fish out of water in her new home of Bucharest, Romania, where her husband Francis (Karl Glusman) works after a transfer. Julia is lost, unable to speak the language of her husband's new co-workers, while also being so far from...
That night, Julia sees the shadowy figure watching her again from across the street. Is it the same man who was following her at the store? We can't tell. Julia is brave enough to wave to him, and to her horror and ours, he waves back. She's not exaggerating. Julia now has proof that the man is indeed watching her. She calls the cops about it, and ...
There seems to be no means of escape, but just then Julia hears Francis arrive home from the party. She tries to scream, but Daniel slits her throat with a knife. It's no minor wound. Julia is gushing blood. She struggles to get to the gun she knows Irina keeps in the apartment, but she can't make it there. Her world goes dark as the watcher looks ...
Maika Monroe was a star long before The Watcher. She'd been acting since 2012, but got her big break with the double whammy in 2014 of The Guest andIt Follows, and was the star of another horror adjacent film in 2019, Villains, co-starringBill Skarsgård, who was coming off his career making performance as Pennywise in It. In The Guest and It Follow...
- Shawn Van Horn
Jun 1, 2022 · Okuno’s script, based on a screenplay by Zach Ford, is pointed, deliberately so, and there’s no mistaking what she’s trying to say about women’s intuition, the reluctance of men to believe ...
Jun 13, 2023 · Okuno's movie forces audiences into Julia's perspective and fragile state of mind. She knows that she's being stalked, but she also knows that the people around her aren't likely to take her ...
Jun 2, 2022 · Watcher, from writer-director Chloe Okuno, is psychological horror, a thriller about a young American woman, Julia (Maika Monroe), who moves to Romania with her husband and quickly begins to believe she is being watched. But is she?
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Jan 28, 2022 · Anxiety seeps into every frame of Watcher, a thriller about a young woman in a foreign land who suspects that someone is stalking her, but can’t get anyone to believe her. Chloe Okuno’s ...
