2017 · horror · thriller · comedy
Better Watch Out
Directed by Chris Peckover1h 29m2017
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
Our read: Better Watch Out (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded horror · thriller · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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