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I recently watched The Nursery, the latest movie from Uncork’d Entertainment. Written by Christopher A. Micklos and directed by Micklos and Jay Sapiro, the teaser trailer had me excited and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the screener. So, after watching The Nursury, did I end up crying for my mommy? Or did I cry to make it stop? Make yourself comfy and grab a bottle because there is a lot to unpack regarding my thoughts on The Nursery.
The Nursery follows the story of a babysitter named Ranae who seems to be emotionally and mentally scarred. Alongside her supporting BFF Calista, there’s a bunch of their annoying tag-along friends Grace and Jeremy, that complicate things. Adding fuel to the equation, there’s a baby in the picture, but don’t get too excited as this baby isn’t pivotal to the plot in any shape or form. That’s right folks, kids don’t do much here, except for the sweetest mildly interesting character of the entire film Ray, Ariana’s baby brother. I would have been entertained by a plot twist of a creepy murderous infant lurking in the frame filled with bloodlust, but sadly there’s nothing of that sort in this film.
A Sitting movie Review What The Nursery offers is a babysitter who is watching a baby in the middle of nowhere for a few hours for some unfathomable couple, much like their baby we hear little of the couple and the baby throughout the movie. Once the couple leaves the house during their activity, Ranae does a couple of strange things and gets in touch with Calista. Ardent Calista is now panicking and makes the trek to nowhere to check on her friend over who she is very worried and just so happens to take Grace and Jeremy along for no real reason. Is it perhaps strength in numbers?
Eventually, Ranae feels more and more that something is wrong with the house. She reaches out to her paranoid, “averagely” obsessed little brother Ray to see if he can find anything off about the house or the homeowners. With Ray good comes out, but this leaves hints of some haunting secrets. Finally, the friends begin to get picked off in even more unimaginative ways, made worse because the lighting in these scenes is so dark that the attempts of violence and gore are more or less lost.
The reveal of the main antagonist who caused most of the destruction in the house was unceremonious. The rest of the movie consists of an excruciatingly drawn-out combination of a twist that we had already predicted and the fulfillment of prior exposition. Naturally, there is a climactic fight between Ranae, the last woman standing, and the evil entity who is trying to save the baby that was just abandoned. There’s one final twist thrown in, but once again, it’s just kind of…meh. I didn’t feel disappointed when the credits began rolling.
To each their own. I didn’t particularly enjoy The Nursery because I was so eager to like it, but sadly it fell short. It had moments of captivating storytelling sprinkled here and there, but stronger performances and writing could have critically transformed the viewing experience. One more aspect of The Nursery that I was impressed by was that it had this vaguely familiar feel of The House of The Devil (2009), But at the end of the day, The Nursery is a slow and predictable film. Well, that is my perspective on the film. If you would like to form your own viewpoint, do check out The Nursery which comes out on June 5, 2018.
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