I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I felt I had to write this to combat the positive reviews, which must have been friends or family of the people in this movie. The entire film is beyond pointless and should never have been a movie. Babysitter wants to kidnap kid. Proceeds to do random disturbing things to the children for seemingly no reason. Parents begin to return home and she panics for time. Why? Why do any of this. Just take the kid and run.The entire time I'm watching this move, I'm frustrated trying to figure out how the writers thought any of this movie made sense or was a good idea. Please don't watch this movie.

If you've seen and enjoyed McG's 2017 film The Babysitter, check out Emelie from two years earlier, a nifty little shocker that also sees a young lad having to do battle with a child minder who is up to no good.The nutty babysitter in this case is Anna (Sarah Bolger), who starts to act weird as soon as the kids' parents leave the house, searching the rooms, breaking into the family security box, asking eleven year old Jacob (Joshua Rush) to pass her a tampon while she is sat on the loo, and allowing the children to draw on the walls. As the evening draws on, Anna gets progressively loopy, feeding Sally's hamster to Jacob's pet python, playing a most unsuitable video for the children, and reading little Christopher (Thomas Bair) a very strange bedtime story about a young woman whose mind cracks after she accidentally kills her baby. It turns out that Anna is actually called Emelie and that she intends to take Christopher as a replacement for her dead infant.With competent direction from Michael Thelin, natural performances from the three children and an extremely chilling turn from Bolger as a total whack job, this is, for the most part, a very effective (and sometimes rather disturbing) thriller, which is only let down by a somewhat weak payoff that feels like a set up for a sequel.

Whoever makes and writes such films and that they are allowed to be published is beyond me. For all ages, it's extremely inappropriate, sick, disturbing and also very weird and creepy to want to continue watching it after certain disturbing highly inappropriate scenes. I stopped watching before half way through it. Some writers, producers and directors really freak me out and need serious questioning!

Slow, too slow, not frightening, not scary, a bit of a thriller with no surprises. Sure the acting is good, the photography is good, technically, the film is well made but, honestly, the whole film could have lasted 30 minutes (with advs), have more suspense in it (I guess they tried to put some suspense but they failed). The pace is constant till the end making no climax at all. Don't bother to watch it, it's a C movie with a nice cover.