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.
Acting
Lukas Haas commits to full parental breakdown with zero vanity
Practical Effects
Nightmare sequences hit harder than they have any right to
Director
Tim Brown
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director Tim Brown's only feature—he vanished into Canadian TV after, cursed by the cradle himself apparently.
Part of a weird 2007 horror wave where 'isolated rural town with dark secret' was every third direct-to-DVD release.
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