TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Platypuschow I saw a review, a 1/10 review with the tagline "I had to stop watching". Now I hate that crap, I'm a firm believer of if you don't watch a movie all the way through then you have no right to judge it.I stand by that, but often I feel the desire to walk away. This is such a film, but I did finish it.It tells the story of a young couple and their newborn baby moving into a new home that's heavily isolated. The pair have to contend with a possible supernatural force and her suffering from postnatal depression.Starring Lukas Haas this is a mercilessly boring movie which shouldn't be considered a horror but more of a thriller, that isn't exactly thrilling.Excessively dark, mundane beyond belief and a terrible plot all come together to make The Cradle.The Good:NopeThe Bad:SO boringWeirdly dark all the timeTerrible plotThings I Learnt From This Movie:The creators may well have seen Evil Dead

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Horror story in the real sense of the word in that it's very real among many child bearing women who are too afraid of having children especially their very first. The movie has to do with this young couple Frank and Julie, Lukas Hass & Emily Hampshire, who move out to the country to raise their newborn son Sam, Elisa Madeline Marks.We see right away that Julie is suffering from a severe case of postpartum depression in that she can't as much touch much less take care of her baby Sam. It's up to Frank to do all the parenting for the couples child that in effect is slowly taking a toll on his psychical and mantel health. It's one evening when Frank's finds Julie gone with Sam in his crib not breathing that he completely flips out and in desperation, by pounding on Sam's chest, bring the what looked like dead infant back to life. Later finding Julie aimlessly wandering around in the woods Frank soon realizes that she's completely unable to take care of Sam and tries to get his next door neighbor Helen (Amada Smith), the only person within miles from where he and Julie live, to babysit for their infant boy.As it turns out Helen is even more unstable then Julie is in her having seen her baby sister,who was thought to have been born stillborn, buried alive by her father, Trevor Bain when she was a little girl. It's then that Frank, an the audience, begin to notice that something is seriously wrong not only with Julie and Helen but himself as well. Frank seems to be going in and out of consciousness and reality in regards to both his son Sam and wife Julie.Things happen that just can't be explained, with Julie and Sam, and in become apparent, at least to Frank, that some supernatural force is in control of events. Helen isn't any help either in her rambling about her having the touch of death at anything that he lays her hands on and is afraid if she even touch's Sam, by being his babysitter, he'll end up dead as well.***SPOILER ALERT*** The movie then goes fast backwards to the point where Frank found Sam not breathing and Julie gone and then things suddenly start to crystallize. Like in the film "The Sixth Sense" we and Frank start to see the obvious clues that were overlooked and the shocking conclusion of those suppressed events are far more horrific then those conjured up by a now mentally unbalanced Frank!"The Cradle" is the kind of film you have to watch at last twice to really understand what its both subconsciously and skillfully trying to tell you. Made on a shoestring budget the movie doesn't have the special effects needed to jump start and keep shocking its audience in order to keep the viewer interested, and awake, in watching it. But if you take the time to really watch and understand what its massage or story is really all about you'll be greatly,if not shockingly, rewarded in your efforts.

sweet_like_candy_12345 OK so after watching this movie and being completely clueless and confused about what really happened I came up with this..Everything you saw before frank finding Sam "dead" Then when frank leaned over and the baby started to breath that was franks imagination it never happened through out the rest of this movie the baby was actually dead but frank though he was alive..Now when you see Julie crying in the corner say that Sam stopped breathing and she ran but came back also was franks imagination when Julie ran after finding Sam dead in the cradle that is when she fell off the waterfall and died..Frank was hallucinated through the rest of the movie so he wouldn't have the deal with the grief of losing them both..you see when he drops his flashlight that it shines in Julie's face it was trying to show him that she's dead same with the stick in her arm and her face being bloody.now as for the ghost in the nursery that was Julie trying to show frank that the baby was dead. the dreams he was having of the baby dying in the washing machine and the stove were dreams that's it.. that crazy lady that lived next door her whole purpose of the movie was basically to show frank at the end that Sam was dead she said he was dead for days..i didn't really see why they brought up Helen's sister being buried alive i don't believe she was haunting them it had no relevance to the movie what so ever cause when frank is in the kitchen and there is a face in the window that face of Julie after she died...the ending shows when it all comes together and makes sense to frank that everything that happened in the last few days was part of his imagination and not real so in conclusion everything that happened after finding Sam unconscious in the cradle was all in franks head

K-burg First off, I really didn't have the trouble understanding this movie that other reviewers seemed to have. Everyone's got films that they just don't get, so I'll assume that's the case here.The story's about a man who loses his mind out of stress and grief. I'd feel sorry for him, but he's too much of an idiot. Here's a tip, fellas. If your wife has severe post-partum depression, take her to a hospital. Do not, under any circumstances, move her to a dreary and isolated house in the middle of hazardous woods with a nutcase for a neighbor. (For the reviewer who insisted that this isn't how women with post-partum depression act, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I'm a physician who has worked with a wide variety of psychiatric patients, and the film portrays classic post-partum depression. There's a spectrum of post-partum mood disorders, and what you're describing sounds more like the very common post-partum blues.) Also, do not repeatedly leave her alone with the baby for hours when she has demonstrated that she cannot care for him. If a doctor tells you that everything will happen naturally in time, that moving to the middle of nowhere is okay, and that your wife apparently has no need of medications, get a new doctor.When the tragically inevitable happens, the main character can't cope. Seeking the advice of a crazy neighbor lady, presumably for lack of anyone sane nearby, he discovers a quite chilling and interesting ghost story. Sadly, the movie is not about the ghost story. Eventually he resolves the parallel realities in his head and we can assume he does something akin to moving on with life. The ending implies that maybe if he hadn't moved his family to this particular cursed and haunted land, the outcome would have been different, but this is the only nod we get towards the side plot being involved in the main story at all.Overall, the filmmakers are lying to us, and unlike in a decent twist-ending movie like Sixth Sense, they had to introduce unnecessary action, characters, and plot points in order to fool the audience. The movie does not tie itself together well and leaves the viewer unsatisfied in a bad way. The concept and the atmosphere were good, but the film did not live up to its potential because the filmmakers decided that a twist ending was more important than telling a good story.