What a great example of working with less or moving in space!
I actually disagree with others that knock this; I think it is a feature and not a bug.

The story and plot is very straightforward, familiar, and even overused or seen 100 times before. In her first feature debut, Chloe Okuno takes all of that in stride and makes something great here.
The tension building comes from someone who has been doing this for a long time, score, the lighting, location, camera, etc are all top-notch. Maika Monroe in the leading role does a phenomenal job here and just lets her face and expression tell the whole story.

If you're a fan of atmospheric, thoughtful, and physiological thriller you should really give this a spin! Just remember that flower, sugar, and butter may make a cake, but not all cakes are the same.

Thriller lacking any sort of inspiration, only the setting can be savaged.

Had been a while since I’ve felt so infuriated watching a film. Julia (the main character) is so FCKNG annoying, stupid, weak. She’s so stupid, I was rooting for her to die the whole time.

It was OK, nothing special, I thought they would go the route of murderer being someone else and the creep would save her.

Extremely boring until about the last 15 minutes. Save yourself the hour and a half and watch something else.

This was excellent and gorgeously shot.

Maika Monroe did an amazing job in this movie. Her acting and facial expressions, and the energy she puts out for the character she’s playing is amazing. They also did a great job with the creep atmosphere of this movie, and the suspense to go with it.

I'm not a horror fan, at all. All the more I have to respect Maika Monroe who managed make me rate three movies in this genre 7/10. Bravo!

The best thing about this movie is the atmosphere. Chloe Okuno manages to portrait perfectly the isolation, loneliness and anxiety of a girl haunted by a stalker in a foreign city with no one to believe or help her. The plot is really simple, the film is not scary in the typical horror way, but direction, cinematography and setting makes this movie worth watching. The only real flaw i found about this film is the ending. Forced and unrealistic.

Bluray Quote
"Maybe he is staring at the woman who is staring at him" (Julia's boyfriend)

A beautifully shot but aggressively basic psychological horror film. There's some genuine tension, haunting score, great use of location, and the lead performance is great as well. You can feel the loneliness that the lead character feels and the language barriers really help induce this feeling of isolation. However, just like any modern paranoia horror film, it feels like a short film content stretched into a feature. The entire film is basically a trope because it feels too familiar that you can call almost every beat. This thing desperately needs more twists and turns considering how slow it is. I honestly didn't expect much from this and it still manages to be disappointing.

Feels very slow to the point i got a lil sick of her longggg face LOL. I mean she did a good job in portraying the character but it feels like there's so much more that could be done to make it more interesting. If i knew it was that slow moving i would've watched it at 1.5x OR 1.25x speed.

Partially watched only, I got the feeling that I had already seen this movie a hundred times...

This is a brilliant thriller in true Hitchcock style. It's slow-paced, no action, but what a tension ! It's all about female anxiety, resulting in a graphic murder. Worth watching.

I can describe this movie in three words "Slow paced boring"
You better watch something else.

Too basic, and has seen many times before in better-presented movies.

Good movie. I like it.

The progression of this movie is very slow and I had to be very patient with it, because I wanted to know the answers along with Julia (Maika Monroe). The ending didn’t disappoint me, it is very spooky and unexpected. This is a well executed film with a very normal story.

Nice super and okay kinda movie

you have to watch the whole movie to find it great

the simplest takeaway: gaslighting is literally never the answer, stop it.

slow-paced, be aware of that going into it. it's never a jump scare that makes the movie unsettling. it was an awesome directorial debut on okuno's part. it's not a new trope but it's handled in a beautiful and haunting way re: cinematography and score, and acted out by a great cast. maika monroe's expressiveness alone deserves all the awards. also proud of lil old shudder backing a proper release!

I really enjoyed this slow burning mystery. It built suspense well, and while it did feel a bit dragged out the payoff at the end was great. The lead was especially excellent. Looking forward to what comes next from the creators of this.

Like a die with no pips, this film is largely useless and doesn't add up to much.

This ferociously boring thriller isn't thrilling at all because it's glaringly obvious from start to end. Not to mention the lead character is so aggressively annoying that you pay for her death the instant she appears on the screen.

Why do they keep giving this girl a leading role? Her acting sucks, and so does this boring movie.

The credits sequence shows Julia and Francis making love on a sofa as the image slowly opens to show them through their apartment window, making us viewers voyeurs of this act of intimacy. There is a conscientious work of the director in showing the oppression of the protagonist through geometric forms that imprison her. But in the third act turns into a conventional thriller that offers a more unsatisfying conclusion than the intriguing ride we've experienced.