The Cradle

2007
4| 1h32m| R| en
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When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family.

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Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
sfiver Really awful... Have enjoyed watching Mr. Haas grow from child star to mature actor. His normal 'underplaying' normally works fine. His superb work in "johns" should have earned him some mainstream acclaim... but Oscar did not focus.Almost all of the previous reviews mirror my feelings regarding this film. Cinematography is excellent, but completely wasted on a poor script. I think I could have written it better.I am watching the film as I write this - maybe 80 minutes in - and I will be switching channels now...Sorry... but due warning this masterwork is a waste of time.
tequilarun I felt this movie was very well done. I did not know it was suppose to be a horror because I watched it through the Rogers and did not have the DVD cover. To me it portrays a woman with postpartum depression. She was given advise by her doctor to move away and start over which she did not really agree with, however went along with the idea hoping that things would change in time. Soon after moving she is still very depressed and can not handle the baby.Her husband gets side tracked by the storm after trying to befriend the neighbour leaving his wife alone with the baby. I feel she lost it and killed the baby. We have a clue of this in the video camera when she is shaking the baby's cradle as the ghost.The husband becomes delusional after arriving home and finding the baby dead and his wife missing. She appears again in his mind in the nursery after he hears the baby start to cry and this is where he continues his psychotic behavior. I feel there is a ghostly element to the story, the ghost of his wife appears on the video and the baby cries in the forest. The rest of the time she appears as a figment of his imagination. He knows in his subconscious that they are both dead and his dreams confirm this. Also when he pulls the sliver from her arm, and seeing her head smashed was a reminder that she was really dead, but refused to acknowledge reality at that time. The ghost in the nursery was another reminder, it was his dead wife pointing to the baby telling him that she wanted him to free the child, and let it go. It was not until his neighbour still suffering from the guilt of her childhood, told him the child was dead. This put him back into his real reality and he started to review what really happened. The ending to me clearly shows in the video that the child and mother were reunited as they appear as ghosts together, and the mother finally accepting her child in the afterlife.To anyone who has ever witnessed postpartum depression this movie is a real take on reality. Also the grief of the husband put into a psychotic state from grief was also portrayed realistically I feel.I felt this movie was well done. It was not a horror to me, but a situation that can happen in real life. I found it compelling and sad.
actor90 This is the worst movie ever to be put to film. Long, boring, the only thing terrifying about this movie was the two hours of my life I wasted watching it. The acting is sub par and annoying. The length of this movie coupled with the boring pace will have you on edge, but not in a good way, no, in a way that makes you wish you never heard of this film. I am the kind of person that loves all horror films, from the grade A top shelf, to the Z grade schlock. This movie is not a horror film, it is a psycho drama that starts bad and ends even worse. This movie has no redeeming qualities. If you value the horror film genre or movies in general stay away from this load of horse manure. I was a firm believer that all movies, even bad movies, have redeeming and enjoyable qualities....until I saw this movie.
Ismaninb Somebody wrote that he for 60% used the FF-button. 60% is not much. One can easily skip 75% without missing what the makers call the story. Anyone who dares to write that Sergio Leone is slow should see this one non-stop twice.First spoiler: A very typical scene is the first visit of Frank to Helen. He walks, walks, walks around, walks a little more, says "Hello!", walks more, says "Hello!" again and finally after hears "Go away." Second spoiler: the first 15 minutes we see a ferry-boat crossing a river, Frank, Julie and Sam arriving and looking at the house and finally going inside unpacking a few things.This movie greatly would have benefited from condensing to 30 minutes at the max.