“Watcher” (** out of four) was a grim psychodrama about a young woman (Maika Monroe) who moves with her husband (Karl Glusman) to Bucharest but is soon alarmed by a stranger (Burn Gorman) across the street who is watching her and she begins to suspect he is a serial killer targeting beautiful women. Writer/director Chloe Okuno works in a melancholic style and craft that harks back to early-period Hitchcock but film never fully comes to life and thus does not connect. Neil Jordan’s “Greta” told a similar story with a lot more haunting pulse and charge. This won critical raves at the Sundance Film Festival so you may want to “watch” for yourselves.

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