On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
"In an alternate mid-80s universe, director Joe Dantes follow-up to his grim Yuletide fairy tale Gremlins would have been Safe Neighborhood, a crisp, crackling, black and bloody Christmas comedy/horror..."
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The holidays are approaching as we prepare to reach the end of the year but director/co-writer Chris Peckover wants to beat the chaotic Christmas rush by offering some creepy coal in his cinematic stockingsmost notably a merry-minded macabre middle finger to the Yuletide season in the charmingly twisted and creatively corrosive suburban home invasion horror thriller Better Watch Out.
Peckover, whose darkened delve into the timely and topical political bonfire known as illegal immigration in 2010s disturbing and noteworthy Undocumented, delivers a diabolical ditty that resonates gleefully in subversive wit, sick-minded jingle hell fraught and turns upside down the tired conventional creepfest genre into an edgy, hair-raising horrif...
Maybe Better Watch Out isn't a great movie. But after the trudge I've gone through this year, it's nice to finally see something that's at least different.
Final rating: - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go.
Yuletide log slips from the fire to ignite the Xmas horror movie sub-genre.
Lets have it right, the 1/10 reviews are from hardcore horror fans who just didn't get the horror experience they was looking for. That's understandable, it's one of the toughest genres to please given the broadness available, but what of those who go in blind who are just after a bit of chilly yuletide nastiness?
Director Chris Peckover and his co-writer Zack Khan have given not just the Xmas horror film genre a shot in the arm, but also put a clever spin on the home invasion formula - the latter of which a formula that grew stale a long time ago. Now I can't vouch for trailers etc, so if folk have been misled then it's tough turkey at yuletide, but going in ...
Fantastic watch, would watch again, and do recommend.
This is a movie that is almost impossible to talk about, it is so twisted and refreshing on so many levels. Just the premise of a home invasion is enough to make for a potentially good movie on its own, which is why it's basically an entire genre to itself. Adding a "I'm going to seduce my babysitter" on top of it makes it unique and interesting.
Everything that happens past that is unpredictable, awesome, and refreshing. Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, and (especially) Olivia DeJonge are great in there roles.
This is a great psychology horror movie that plays on several different aspects of life and human desires.
It is well worth the watch.