The point is that viewers identify with Bianca, who’s actually a pretty cool girl (shout out to the Shock Waves poster on her bedroom wall), and whose relatability is buoyed by the teen-movie staple of extensive first-person narration.
Early allusions to both Eyes of a Stranger and Someone’s Watching Me abound, successfully contextualizing Watcher in the current pantheon of women-in-peril horror hybrids.
Directed by Julius Avery and with music by the Gawler-born Jed Kurzel, this has a vaguely odd structure and features its undead Nazis aren’t quite as scary as those found in cheaper classics like Shock Waves and Dead Snow .