Better Watch Out

Better Watch Out

You might be home but you're not alone

Rating

5.0 (1)

Release Date

10/6/2017

Runtime

89 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

$176,288

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A Christmas-set home invasion thriller that gleefully subverts your expectations, blending pitch-black humor with genuine dread as the familiar becomes increasingly sinister. The film plays you like a puppet before revealing its hand in ways that recontextualize everything you thought you understood.

Mood

UnsettlingPlayfulDread-soakedTense

Themes

Coming of ageBetrayalIsolation

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Brisk

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Graphic violenceChild endangerment

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