10 More Horror Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good

Chloe Okuno's psychological horror film Watcher is a fascinating example of a movie which benefitted from a very happy accident.

The narrative focuses on a woman (Maika Monroe) who believes that a stranger who watches her from an apartment block across the street may be a serial killer terrorising the city.

During development, the story was set in New York City, but due to the pandemic making shooting in the United States financially unfeasible, the decision was made to film in Bucharest, Romania instead, and also shift the setting there.

This ultimately added a whole new dimension to the film, as Monroe's protagonist Julia now has to deal with the isolation and anxiety of moving to an unfamiliar country where she doesn't speak the language, on top of the maybe-serial killer scenario.

And it's honestly tough to imagine Watcher any other way - the film would've almost definitely been less interesting with its original stateside setting, and so while nobody's happy the pandemic happened, circumstances certainly allowed for Watcher to become a better film because of it.