Director: Scott Jeffrey
Year: 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: The Watcher
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Sent off to a remote house, a young woman trying to reform her party-girl attitude tries to fight the boredom and solitude by making friends with the few locals around only to soon be targeted by a strange nun who claims to be saving her from a psycho in the area who forces her to defend herself.
Review:
This one ended up being a rather bland overall effort. One of the biggest problems with this one is the rather off-putting and brazenly plodding pace which makes this a really tough film to get through. There's quite a lot of plodding filler to be had here to pad this out to a feature-length effort, ranging from the overlong opening where she messages her friend with every text message between them is played out on-screen that's carried on way too long to the early conversations that have no energy and the continuous phone calls to her friend to come to visit which is just plain bland and hold this back from getting going. Later scenes, including the various side characters who are in the woods around the house or just the endless shots of her handing out around the house doing nothing which really gets old and boring.
That’s not helped at all by the incredibly lame and banal attempts at horror here, which are completely mishandled and undoes a lot of this one. The opening murders are just simple stabbings without much incident behind them as the pathetic stabbing just seems weak, the outright lack of stalking to build-up any kind of suspense to the ambush at her house when it kills off her friend and the arrival of the roommate kills off any kind of atmosphere present with the lack of information given as to how it got inside the house to play the fabled videotape. The outright lack of gore or even a traditional body count here really undo this one as it never provides the goods when it should be providing some genre hallmarks.
The last problem here is the fact that this one is so haphazard and lackadaisical about the central character that a lot of potential fear is missed due to the story. It’s way too convenient to have the central character show up at the house which used to be her nunnery, is discovered way too late and is such a lame manner that is no way realistic or plausible, and the only somewhat decent idea here of her talking to the nun through the door is ruined when you realize that’s the entire interaction between them to where you can’t see each other’s face during the scene. With a laughable killer, no real money shots for being a genre picture and a boring presentation due to its pace, this one really is quite awful and worthless overall.
Overview: 1/2/5
There’s just so little about this one that comes off as enjoyable that there’s very little reason to like this one and almost makes the case that it’s almost not even worth being made. Really only give this one a look if you’re curious about these kinds of efforts, but this one is basically best left alone and not worth the trouble at all.
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