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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This movie was made on a low budget so I had low expectations but I was pleasantly surprised. It was very suspenseful and creepy without requiring special effects or gore. To everyone that is so confused over what happened, did you watch the ending? It explains it quite clearly. The only part that I found confusing was adding in the Helen story since it really had nothing to do with the outcome but I guess that was just to get your imagination going on another course, that part could have been done a little better. Regardless of it I still figured out the ending part way through. I thought that overall it was refreshingly different and I didn't find it slow moving at all, I enjoyed the suspenseful build up. The story was a little sloppy but overall enjoyable. I definitely felt influence from The Shining in it too which is one of my all time favorite movies.

I felt this movie was very well done. I did not know it was suppose to be a horror because I watched it through the Rogers and did not have the DVD cover. To me it portrays a woman with postpartum depression. She was given advise by her doctor to move away and start over which she did not really agree with, however went along with the idea hoping that things would change in time. Soon after moving she is still very depressed and can not handle the baby.Her husband gets side tracked by the storm after trying to befriend the neighbour leaving his wife alone with the baby. I feel she lost it and killed the baby. We have a clue of this in the video camera when she is shaking the baby's cradle as the ghost.The husband becomes delusional after arriving home and finding the baby dead and his wife missing. She appears again in his mind in the nursery after he hears the baby start to cry and this is where he continues his psychotic behavior. I feel there is a ghostly element to the story, the ghost of his wife appears on the video and the baby cries in the forest. The rest of the time she appears as a figment of his imagination. He knows in his subconscious that they are both dead and his dreams confirm this. Also when he pulls the sliver from her arm, and seeing her head smashed was a reminder that she was really dead, but refused to acknowledge reality at that time. The ghost in the nursery was another reminder, it was his dead wife pointing to the baby telling him that she wanted him to free the child, and let it go. It was not until his neighbour still suffering from the guilt of her childhood, told him the child was dead. This put him back into his real reality and he started to review what really happened. The ending to me clearly shows in the video that the child and mother were reunited as they appear as ghosts together, and the mother finally accepting her child in the afterlife.To anyone who has ever witnessed postpartum depression this movie is a real take on reality. Also the grief of the husband put into a psychotic state from grief was also portrayed realistically I feel.I felt this movie was well done. It was not a horror to me, but a situation that can happen in real life. I found it compelling and sad.

"The Cradle" is one of the hardest films ever to call a horror film.**SPOILERS**Moving into a new house, newlyweds Frank, (Lukas Haas) and his wife Julie Brooksfield, (Emily Hampshire) fix it up for their baby, only for their marital issues to get in the way. Even though none of the neighbors offer up any help, they decide to deal with it on their own. The more they try to help each other deal with the baby, the more they have problems dealing with it, and once he starts to complain that something is after their child, she blames it on him and ignores it. Getting help from Helen, (Amanda Smith) who tells him that there's the ghost of the previous resident who now is haunting the estate, and they decide to fight back and stop the ghost from destroying the family.The Good News: There is hardly anything in this one worthwhile. The main plot-line about the baby being in jeopardy does have some solid credence to it, as it's a pretty frightening idea that is really well-played and actually works. From the motions on the hidden camera to the dreams and hallucinations and the constant agonizing over what's happening, there's a lot to this and it's one of the best things about the film. That's also boosted by one of the only worthwhile scenes in the film, where supernatural forces are shown moving the baby across the table with only the garments on the table beside it indicating the move. It's creepy, disturbing and actually well-done, which indicates that something weird is happening and after the child, scoring well with several points. These, though, are all that make this one interesting.The Bad News: There's not a whole lot to this one, since there's really big, damaging flaws to this one. The main one is that this one is just ungodly boring. Nothing at all happens in here except for a several brief moments, but the rest of the film, literally nothing happens. The majority of time is spent with the guy and the baby, not exactly thrilling beyond the one moment where something actually happens, but that's about it. There's a ton of talk about something, but it's done in such a manner that it's nothing that matters or not. It doesn't matter what happens, whether or not that the film decides to make them seem so important, yet they're the main focus of the story for the first fifty minutes of it's running time, and that is something that is a major mistake. The lack of action also makes the later segments seem that much more dull, as running around screaming at anything that moves doesn't do much to inspire fear. That may well be the whole problem with the film, nothing in here actually does anything to inspire fear. That's the major, overall problem with this one, that no one outside of parents will find this one frightening, scary or even entertaining. It's dull, lifeless and uses tactics that will only get a jolt from those in that situation, and not much of anything else in here will work in here. These here are the film's overall flaws.The Final Verdict: With a ton of dullness, nothing really much interesting happening and a selected audience, this one is pretty much doomed to fail. Really only those who will find the premise intriguing or scary should give this one a watch, otherwise skip this one and give others a shot.Rated R: Mild Violence, Language and children in danger

Somebody wrote that he for 60% used the FF-button. 60% is not much. One can easily skip 75% without missing what the makers call the story. Anyone who dares to write that Sergio Leone is slow should see this one non-stop twice.First spoiler: A very typical scene is the first visit of Frank to Helen. He walks, walks, walks around, walks a little more, says "Hello!", walks more, says "Hello!" again and finally after hears "Go away." Second spoiler: the first 15 minutes we see a ferry-boat crossing a river, Frank, Julie and Sam arriving and looking at the house and finally going inside unpacking a few things.This movie greatly would have benefited from condensing to 30 minutes at the max.