Better Watch Out

Ashley is babysitting Luke on Christmas Eve while his parents are at a holiday party. When strange things begin happening outside — a shadowy figure, what seems like an intruder — Luke arms them both and they barricade the house. For a while, it plays like a tense home-invasion thriller.

The twist arrives midway: there is no intruder. Luke has orchestrated everything — with help from his friend Garrett — as an elaborate scheme to engineer a moment of vulnerability and win Ashley over. When Garrett becomes a liability, Luke kills him without remorse and turns on Ashley, restraining and threatening her with chilling calm. The film pivots from thriller to something far darker: a portrait of entitlement and obsession wearing a child's face.

Ashley fights back by every means available — manipulation, escape attempts, playing to Luke's ego. Her boyfriend Ricky arrives and is killed by Luke, who covers his tracks methodically. By the time Luke's parents return home, the house looks normal. Ashley is bound and gagged in the basement, and Luke watches her on a monitor — composed, satisfied, already performing innocence.