Better Watch Out
2016 · Movie · R · 89 min · ★ 6.7 · 78% critics
On a quiet suburban street during the holidays, a babysitter is left alone with a twelve-year-old boy when strangers begin breaking into the house. What starts like a standard home invasion escalates into something far stranger and more unsettling, forcing the babysitter to protect both the boy and herself.
Also known as Safe Neighborhood
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2017-10-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (1,651 votes)
About
If you want a holiday home-invasion story with a darkly playful, twisty edge—like The Babysitter or I See You—Not for you if you dislike unpredictable plots, controversial tone, or may be turned off by divisive shock tactics.
Pros: fresh holiday horror tone; clever twisty home invasion; tense, unpredictable ride | Cons: divisive plausibility; some immature jokes; uneven decision-making
Themes
- holiday
- spider
- murder
- snowman
- snow
- home invasion
- truth or dare
- christmas lights
- christmas horror
- christmas
Cast & crew
Olivia DeJonge
as Ashley
Levi Miller
as Luke
Ed Oxenbould
as Garrett
Aleks Mikic
as Ricky
Dacre Montgomery
as Jeremy
Patrick Warburton
as Robert Lerner
Virginia Madsen
as Deandra Lerner
- AM
Alexandra Matusko
as Scary Movie Girl
- GH
Georgia Holland
as Scary Movie Girl
- BA
Beau Andre
as The Mangler
Directed by Chris Peckover