A woman alone in a smart house that seems to be working against her: that's the premise driving I'll Be Watching, a 2023 American sci-fi thriller from director Erik Bernard.
What is I'll Be Watching about?
Julie is still grieving her sister when her husband, a tech-industry engineer, leaves their newly built, remote home for a work trip. What should be a quiet stretch alone turns into something else once the house's own systems start behaving strangely around her. Cut off from easy help and unsettled by a home she doesn't fully trust, Julie has to work out what's actually happening before isolation and fear get the better of her. The film leans on the anxiety of automated homes — the idea that the technology meant to protect a person can just as easily become the thing watching them.
About the cast
Eliza Taylor carries the film as Julie, with Bob Morley playing her husband. The supporting cast includes Seth Michaels, David Keith, Natasha Halevi, Bryan Batt, and Duke Jackson, rounding out a small, contained ensemble suited to a story that spends most of its runtime with one woman and one house.
Context & significance
I'll Be Watching arrived in 2023 as part of a run of smart-home thrillers that use connected devices as a source of dread rather than convenience. At 90 minutes, it's a tightly paced entry in the genre, built around a single location and a slow unraveling of trust between its lead character and the technology surrounding her. The film sits comfortably alongside other domestic-horror titles that ask what happens when the walls of your own house stop feeling safe.
Watching I'll Be Watching on Ktime
I'll Be Watching is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, and comes with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably in Farsi for viewers across the diaspora who prefer the language they're most at home in. The full K-Time interface is in Farsi as well, from browsing through to playback.