So, is itThe Watchersor is itThe Watched?

Working from a folk-horror novel by A.M. Somethings on his trail, but what?

He soon finds out.

The Watchers movie

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Thatsimpossible, he gasps with his dying breath, the first of many teasing horror tropes.

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seems to spiral almost out of control.

Similarly, the film draws up a firm set of rules that it promptly abandons.

Never turn your back on the mirror, warns Madeline.

(And nothing seems to happen when they do.)