The Guardian (1990)

Directed by

William Friedkin

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 214 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple in suburban Los Angeles hires a nanny for their baby son. They slowly realize she is not what she seems, and that children she looked after before have vanished.

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What happens

The Guardian is a 1990 American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by William Friedkin, and starring Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell, Brad Hall, and Miguel Ferrer. The plot follows a suburban Los Angeles couple who hire a nanny to care for their infant son, only to discover she is in fact a Hamadryad whose previous clients' children went missing under her care. The film is based on the novel The Nanny by Dan Greenburg, who co-wrote the screenplay with Friedkin and Stephen Volk. Director Sam Raimi was originally attached to the project, before dropping out to direct Darkman. Heavily marketed as director Friedkin's first foray into the horror genre since 1973's The Exorcist, the film had a troubled production, with the script undergoing changes that continued well into the shooting process. The film was released in the spring of 1990, and had a generally unfavorable critical reception, later making Roger Ebert's "most hated films" list. A cable television version of the film was credited to "Alan Von Smithee", due to Friedkin's wish to disassociate himself from its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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