Watcher

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Maika Monroe as Julia
• Karl Glusman as Francis
• Burn Gorman as Daniel Weber
• Tudor Petruț as taxi driver
• Mădălina Anea as Irina
• Cristina Deleanu as Eleanora
• Daniel Nuță as Cristian

Storyline:

The American Julia and her Romanian American husband Francis move from New York to Bucharest and are welcomed by the super Eleonora of the apartment building where they will live. Julia was an actress in the USA and does not speak Romanian. Francis works in marketing and has a great professional opportunity returning to Romania. Julia stays alone in the apartment along the days and notes that a watcher is looking at her apartment. While walking on the neighborhood, Julia and Francis see the police and learn that a serial-killer, Spider, has killed his fourth victim and her decapitated body was found nearby their building. On the next day, Julia goes to the movie theater and a man moves to the seat behind her. She leaves the movie theater and goes to the supermarket and the stalker follows her. She believes the stalker and the watcher are the same man but she cannot prove. Soon she befriends her next-door neighbor Irina, who lived in London and has a perfect English. When Julia sees the man on the street, she follows him and finds that he works as janitor in the club where Irina works. Julia follows the man everywhere and Francis believes she is stressed and paranoid. But is she really paranoid or has may be the watcher the wanted serial-killer?

About Movie:

Watcher is a psychological thriller film written and directed by Chloe Okuno in her feature directorial debut, based on an original screenplay by Zack Ford. The film stars Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, and Burn Gorman.

In March 2021, it was announced that Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman and Burn Gorman would star in a film titled Watcher for Image Nation Abu Dhabi and Spooky Pictures.

Principal photography began on March 8, 2021, and concluded on April 16, 2021, in Bucharest, Romania. The film took approximately six weeks to make in total.

Watcher had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2022, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. The film was theatrically released in the United States on June 3, 2022, to positive reviews from critics.

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