While the Children Sleep (2007)

Directed by

Russell Mulcahy

Genre

thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family hires a live-in nanny who slowly insinuates herself into their lives. Family friends start having mysterious accidents as the nanny plots to take the mother's place through murder.

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What happens

While the Children Sleep (also known as The Sitter) is a 2007 American made-for-television horror film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Mariana Klaveno, Gail O'Grady, William R. Moses, Tristan Lake Leabu, Madison Davenport, and Stacy Haiduk. Released on the Lifetime Movie Network, its plot concerns a couple who hires a live-in nanny who inserts herself increasingly into the family routine. Then friends of the family begin to have mysterious accidents, as the nanny conspires to replace the mother through murder. The film received generally negative reviews, with many critics saying the film was derivative of other 90s femme fatale psychological thrillers, with many especially comparing it to the similar film The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992). Despite this, Mariana Klaveno’s performance as psychopath Abby received praise. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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