Premise: A young woman taking experimental medication with LSD gets a job as a caretaker for a family of a young boy with some strange ailments.
This is really more psychological thriller than horror. It's as much The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as anything. There's enough haunting imagery that I won't gripe too much about calling it horror though. I mainly saw this for Morgan Saylor anyway. After doing a batshit crazy movie like White Girl, I'm on board for whenever she decides to pick an intense role. She goes all in. I mean this next comment as a compliment: She looks like someone frazzled by drugs. She's also nearly 30 but could still pass as a high-schooler in a pinch. That age uncertainty works well for a role like this where she has to have too much and too little life experience in different ways.
I've seen enough variations of this movie that nothing truly surprised me in it. It's like how there are only so many ways a boxing match can end, but they can still be exciting to watch in a movie. The direction Spoonful of Sugar goes is nice in a "who are the real monsters in this movie" way. The fact that Saylor is on drugs and hallucinating for most of the movie means it's always interesting to look at.
All in all, I was hoping it would be a bit spookier, but it mostly worked in the ways it was supposed to.
Verdict: Weakly Recommend
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