The Watcher (2024)

Uprooted when her partner accepts a job in Romania, a young woman (captivating Scream Queen Maika Munroe) floats around her new city alone like Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation, feebly grappling with the culture and new language, and she finds her feelings of isolation compounded by the fact a serial killer is operating in the neighbourhood...and because there's a person watching her from an apartment across the street.

★★★★☆

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It Follows (2015)

It Follows brings retro 80s-style teen horror to 2015 with less slash-and-hack but with the synthesiser soundtrack and the kooky fantasy of, say, Elm Street, its inconsistent and implausible plotting - it is about a ghoul that could be herpes personified - and it is all delivered with Donnie Darko cool, aspiring to but not achieving that film's depth.

★★★☆☆

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