Review: Better Watch Out
Levi Miller is being babysat by Olivia DeJonge, an older girl he has a crush on. His best mate Ed Oxenbould (rounding out the trio of young Aussie actors here) thinks he’s dreaming. However, it’s Christmas, he’s alone with DeJonge and Miller has plans for he and his crush. Meanwhile, there appears to be an intruder on the premises. It’s going to be anything but a jolly Yuletide evening as DeJonge (showing some decent spunk alongside her “The Visit” co-star Oxenbould) needs to see that both she and the minor she’s in charge of see it through the night alive. Patrick Warburton and Virginia Madsen appear early as Miller’s parents who are out at a party for the evening. There’s nothing worse in cinema than a film that completely and utterly squanders potential. I’m not saying this 2017 Christmas-set horror-thriller from director Chris Peckover (whose previous effort was 2010’s “Undocumented” ) and co-writer Zack Kahn (who wrote for an animated TV show version of the popular “M