The Watcher
Movie • 2000 • Thriller
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FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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The guy only k*lls women. Possibly to get the detective's attention
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Is rape mentioned?
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It's said that the victims WEREN'T SA'd (but they were partially naked)
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A cat's owner is k*lled but the k*ller takes the cat and is later seen patting it
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Serial killer stalks his targets, learning every aspect of their routines for weeks before attacking.
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Does a cat die?
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The cat does not die but its fate is mostly unknown after the last scene its seen in. But cat is very much alive.
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No rape in the film.
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A man kisses a woman who he has tied up in her apartment (she has duct tape over her mouth). We learn that female victims of a male serial killer are found partially unclothed, however it is explicitly mentioned that all swabs come back negative so he does not sexually assault any of them.
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Is there excessive gore?
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there's gore but it's not excessive imo
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Is someone tortured?
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A male serial killer tortures his female victims. It is mentioned that when they pass out from fear or pain, he revives them to inflict more.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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The k*ller cuts his hands with the piano string he uses as a weapon (from what I've seen)
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A serial killer murders his victims by strangling them with piano wire. We see this on screen once (he stops as she's struggling for breath). We see him grab women and cover their mouths.
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At one point tho a man shines a lamp at another man's face to induce a migraine
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Does someone fall to their death?
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People jump out of a building during the climax, but nobody dies due to the fall.
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The main character vomits at the beginning of the movie after flashbacks.
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Does someone spit?
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the main character does after getting sick
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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The graphics flash and become negatives at several points throughout the movie, and one character flashes lights at another. There are no prolonged strobe light effects.
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Is there sexual content?
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Nothing on-screen, but there are mentions of extramarital relationships
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Does someone drown?
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No, but there is a dead body in water at one point
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Not a nuclear explosion, but part of a building explodes
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