Michelle Garza Cervera directs Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Raúl Castillo in this remake of the yuppie in peril / nanny from hell Nineties mainstay.

Monroe Vs Winstead. Take my money. And Winstead just about wins in the diva off. She absolutely falls apart. Two of my 21st century faves take on this childhood relic. Exactly the right sort of material to rehash. The 90s potboiler was no big shakes. It almost made Rebecca DeMornay an A-lister and still fills a Saturday night in an undemanding way for Gen X-ers. This version is probably on a par. It is less transgressive but overtly sexier and mysterious. Though the third act revelations do suggest that we might have been rooting for the wrong bisexual scream queen after all. “That woman deserves her revenge.”- Budd, Kill Bill Ends on a whimper. You can’t help but worry that MEW’s blank of a husband never once take her side. What a dick! Though she did refuse to buy his pasta sauce for him at the farmer’s market so maybe revenge is a healthier dish best served cold? Slick… slicker but not an actual improvement.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

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