12 Recent Films That Fell Apart In The Final Act

12. Watcher

2022 was a year that delivered one great horror film after another all the way through and while Chloe Okuno's Watcher didn't get the same level of mainstream attention as things like X, Barbarian or Nope, it really deserved to.

Watcher tells a seemingly familiar story - an American named Julia (It Follows' Maika Monroe) in Romania becomes unnerved when a man (Burn Gorman) across the street won't stop watching her and soon suspects he's a serial killer - with so much panache that it starts to feel entirely fresh. Maika Monroe is great in the lead role, and Okuno's direction masterfully builds suspense, echoing Hitchcock in the best sort of way.

Unfortunately, after two acts of beautiful build-up the finale doesn't work nearly as well. After some double bluffs it turns out that, yes, the man across the street is a killer after all and yes, he tries to kill Julia at the end. This all just felt far too predictable - why couldn't another character have turned out to be the killer instead? - and this part of the film is considerably less frightening than the earlier scenes were.