Director Chloe Okuno's debut thriller stars Maika Monroe ('It Follows') as an expat being stalked, perhaps, in Bucharest.
, director Chloe Okuno has taken the well-worn genre of the stalker flick and given it a subtle jolt of freshness, making it less about the violence, which is more suggested than seen, than about the act of watching itself.
The result is a thriller whose temperature is on soft boil for most of its running time, until Okuno turns up the gas in the last few minutes for a convincingly extreme finale. In a genre movie climate marked by cheap thrills and easy scares — whatever gets us not to click on something else — it’s nice to see a film that sustains a viable ambiance of dread simply via someone looking out the window and shopping for groceries.
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