{"id":32510,"date":"2023-04-08T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32510"},"modified":"2023-04-08T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:56:11","slug":"watcher-2022-starring-maika-monroe-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32510","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Watcher&#8221; (2022) starring Maika Monroe \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z040823zview_watcher.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watcher <\/em><\/strong>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Chloe Okuno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer: <strong>Chloe Okuno <\/strong>based on the screenplay<strong> by Zack Ford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Evil Wants to be Seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Julia (Monroe) and Francis (Glusman) are newlyweds. They&#8217;ve just moved to Bucharest, Romania for Francis&#8217; job,\u00a0 While Francis is at work, Julia is alone.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t know anyone and isn&#8217;t able to speak the language.\u00a0 When Julia sees a man in the apartment across the street constantly staring into her apartment, it begins to creep her out.\u00a0 Then she notices a man following her.\u00a0 Julia tells her husband but he thinks it&#8217;s just her nerves.<\/p>\n<p>When Julia learns that a serial killer known as The Spider is torturing and beheading women in Bucharest, she is sure that the killer is planning for her to be his next victim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maika Monroe is very good in this role.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing more of her in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chloe Okuno adapted Zack Ford&#8217;s screenplay.\u00a0 Ford had originally set the story in Brooklyn.\u00a0 It was a smart move to change the location to Bucharest.\u00a0 It made Julia even more isolated and increased the probability that her nerves were playing tricks on her.<\/p>\n<p>Burn Gorman was excellent as the creepy neighbor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Watcher<\/em> is a slow burn.\u00a0 The ending plays with the viewer.\u00a0 Overall there&#8217;s a Hitchcock feel to the film and that&#8217;s never a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Watcher <\/em><\/strong>(2022) <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z040823zview_watcher2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watcher (2022) Director:\u00a0 Chloe Okuno Writer: Chloe Okuno based on the screenplay by Zack Ford Stars: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32593,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions\/32593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}