When Maika Monroe’s acting career took off in 2014 with the hit horror film It Follows, it looked like the actress was on her way to superstardom.
Instead, she chose a different path, building an impressive resume with some superb smaller films such as Villains and Significant Other.
Perhaps the best thing she’s done in the past few years is last year’s Watcher, a thriller with Monroe at its center as a woman being stalked by a serial killer.
While films with that premise have been done numerous times, Watcher is something different, latching on to its star with a quiet performance that starts out slowly, with the tension increasing bit by bit throughout, until the unnerving ending that won’t soon leave your memory.
Written and directed by Chloe Okuno in her first feature, Watcher an important film for both men and women to witness.
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