[Review] WATCHER (2022, SHUDDER) Poorly Paced Pristine Pot-boiler

Tonight, on Gruesome Magazine episode 347, the Grue-Crew review WATCHER (2022, IFC Midnight). Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era, Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s, and award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore share their thoughts about this week’s frightening addition to streaming horror films.

Warning: possible spoilers after the initial impressions!

WATCHER (2022, IFC Midnight)

A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from the apartment building across the street may be a local serial killer decapitating women.

• Available Streaming on SHUDDER beginning August 26, 2022
• Director: Chloe Okuno
• Writer: Chloe Okuno, Zack Ford
• Cast: Maika Monroe as Julia, Karl Glusman as Francis, Burn Gorman as Weber

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Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior.

Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.