Maika Monroe Interview: Watcher, God Is A Bullet and the Horror Genre - Sundance 2022

Maika Monroe’s got a good deal of variety on her filmography, but she’s certainly embraced the horror genre the most. Thanks to It Follows and The Guest, 2014 could be considered a breakout year for Monroe and, ever since, she’s consistently filled her schedule with projects that give her the opportunity to work on especially bold stories and/or with some very promising new voices in the genre, like Watcher writer-director, Chloe Okuno. The film marks Okuno’s feature debut and stars Monroe as Julia, a woman who agrees to move to Romania with her husband (Karl Glusman) when he scores a job opportunity there. Having left her acting career behind, Julia finds herself alone in the apartment often and, one night, notices that someone in the building across the street is watching her. That evolves into a sense that she’s being followed wherever she goes, making her wonder, is it the same person and could it be the local serial killer dubbed The Spider? With Watcher celebrating its World Premiere at th