28: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025)
Trailer with some of the third act and some misleading ADR
Disney+ and grownup bit Hulu aren’t doing much for Halloween this year besides finally adding Something Wicked This Way Comes, but did just give us this, a remake of the 1992 thriller about a nanny threatening a family, of interest as a battle of the Final Girls with Maika Monroe as the nanny and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the mother. (Here with lightened hair making them look more alike than usual so I wondered if it was a plot point.) Beyond that it’s like the original with a few twists in motive and method, a movie-of-the-week with extra blood and F-bombs elevated by its central performances - both leads trade audience sympathies and suspicions well throughout.
I also really liked the minimal electronic and choral soundtrack by frequent Black Mirror composer Ariel Marx.
Opening track, Fire.
Content note for child endangerment and references to abuse, self-harm
The medium: Disney+ (Hulu tab)
Gameability: How much can you learn with a mail order DNA test?
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