Watcher Review

Review of Watcher (2022) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

Neo-giallo set in a claustrophobic Romania. No matter how adamant Julia is about keeping people near her to protect herself they always find a way to excuse themselves from her presence. It happens so much it kind of gets comical, which hurts the feeling of devastation we know Julia is going through.

Her husband makes a shockingly minimal attempt to humor her or even show that he knows she's distressed. By far the most frustrating part of this since the paranoid angle is the movie's way into Julia's personal horror. Its ROSEMARY'S BABY questioning of her husband's true loyalty fails to go anywhere meaningful, if only just to reassure us that she should spend some time looking into Romanian divorce lawyers. She deserves better.

Then things unfold just as you'd expect, with the end result feeling just kind of like a middling giallo picture.