Following the birth of her child, a young mother becomes increasingly more convinced something is stalking her and her newborn son, but as no one else believes her she takes it upon herself to save her child which only manages to cause others around her to believe she's insane instead.
This one wasn't too bad of an effort. One of it's better qualities is the rather enjoyable build-up this goes through in setting up the central premise at play within this. Offering several impressive techniques here with the manner in which this helps to sell her mental deterioration, ranging from the idea of her convinced of two laughs coming from the baby monitor to the fleeting flash images of somebody in the room on the baby monitor and the shots of a dead baby in the crib, all manage to bring out a rather fine building block to the story here. As well as the burgeoning friendship with the neighbor which doesn't help matters at all, the idea of the supernatural force coming after her soon makes for a much more prominent proposition in the later half once it's revealed she's been stalked by the demon the entire time which is where the film picks up considerably. From the demon voice in the house which starts the investigation into the actual being that's attacked in the past and the realization of what she has to do to save him, the idea of helping to break her down even further as the demon begins to put its plan into motion as the shift from the baby being the target to her which ends up driving our sympathy towards her in the situation given all that's been revealed throughout here. There's some creepiness to be had in the finale where she gets placed in the hospital because of her psychotic breakdown and watches the demon snatching the baby up through the monitor which launches her final desperate race to get her son back which ends up revealing the film's biggest issue. Since this one never really makes it clear what exactly the demon is or what it's doing, the scenes of it interacting in the physical world don't make any sense and there's never any kind of concrete answer given to the events that are caused throughout here. It's all mainly due to the last half where the final reveal doesn't do anything to flesh out the series of questions involved in the storyline and nothing is really explained about where it comes from since the psychological aspect of her psychosis doesn't answer the question of what's involved in the storyline. Coupled with some questionable decisions throughout here, there's not a whole lot to really hold it back.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, smoking and intense themes of infants in jeopardy.
This one wasn't too bad of an effort. One of it's better qualities is the rather enjoyable build-up this goes through in setting up the central premise at play within this. Offering several impressive techniques here with the manner in which this helps to sell her mental deterioration, ranging from the idea of her convinced of two laughs coming from the baby monitor to the fleeting flash images of somebody in the room on the baby monitor and the shots of a dead baby in the crib, all manage to bring out a rather fine building block to the story here. As well as the burgeoning friendship with the neighbor which doesn't help matters at all, the idea of the supernatural force coming after her soon makes for a much more prominent proposition in the later half once it's revealed she's been stalked by the demon the entire time which is where the film picks up considerably. From the demon voice in the house which starts the investigation into the actual being that's attacked in the past and the realization of what she has to do to save him, the idea of helping to break her down even further as the demon begins to put its plan into motion as the shift from the baby being the target to her which ends up driving our sympathy towards her in the situation given all that's been revealed throughout here. There's some creepiness to be had in the finale where she gets placed in the hospital because of her psychotic breakdown and watches the demon snatching the baby up through the monitor which launches her final desperate race to get her son back which ends up revealing the film's biggest issue. Since this one never really makes it clear what exactly the demon is or what it's doing, the scenes of it interacting in the physical world don't make any sense and there's never any kind of concrete answer given to the events that are caused throughout here. It's all mainly due to the last half where the final reveal doesn't do anything to flesh out the series of questions involved in the storyline and nothing is really explained about where it comes from since the psychological aspect of her psychosis doesn't answer the question of what's involved in the storyline. Coupled with some questionable decisions throughout here, there's not a whole lot to really hold it back.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence, smoking and intense themes of infants in jeopardy.