Better Watch Out (2016)

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   essaywhu

   The main character is such a little creep. 1 year 6 months ago
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   Shazaaaam

   Kudos to this one for the unexpected direction it took, but that direction was so terrifically silly that I just couldn't care about the movie afterward. 6 years 4 months ago
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   Siskoid

   In terms of the beloved black comedy/horror/Christmas movie genre, Better Watch Out fails on two of those ingredients. It starts out well enough, preparing us for a home invasion thriller set during the holiday season, our protagonists a babysitter and a 12-year-old who crushes on her, basically the last time he'll need a babysitter so it's presented as a kind of coming of age movie as well. But once the mystery of who is attacking the house is solved, the coming of age becomes impossible and instead ugly male entitlement drives the story, and while I take my comedy black indeed, there's a torture porn mean-spiritedness that is off-putting. It's also not helpful that, even though the babysitter gets her licks in (bless Olivia DeJonge, she can't hide her Australian accent when she gets fired up), the movie seems very proud of its "clever" antagonist, and doesn't really give him his comeuppance. It's not quite like it's signing off on his misogyny, but not far off. At the very least, it's unsatisfying to the audience. And the story could have happened any time. They use Christmasy props, but the spirit of Christmas is completely absent from its themes, even ironically. Only the dad likes Christmas, and the kids watch horror movies and act like they just walked out of the Scream franchise. The babysitter is moving away like this was supposed to be set after graduation. I guess they just really really wanted to use that title, and stole it from a killer Santa Claus movie. 3 years 4 months ago

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