Film Review: Emelie

 Genre: Horror, Thriller

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Michael Thelin 

Screen writer: Richard Raymond Harry Herbeck  (screenplay) (as Rich Herbeck) Richard Raymond Harry Herbeck  (story by) (as Rich Herbeck) Michael Thelin  (story by)

Starring: Carly Adams , Carl Bailey , Thomas Bair , Chris Beetem , Heather Benson , Sarah Bolger , Robert Bozek , Doreen Donovan Corkin , Michael Joseph Dugan , Dante Hoagland , Daniel James , Elizabeth Jayne , Sara Kow-Falcone , Randi Langdon , Shania Ling.

Running time: 1h 20min

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: 

• three children and a woman watch a sex tape of the children parents together. We dont see anything, but we hear moaning and other explicit sounds.

• a woman reads a young boy a story that includes crude drawings of sexual intercourse and a vagina wrapped in barbed wire.

• a father tells a mother that they need to give their eldest son, "The Talk".

Violence & Gore:

• Threatening behavior toward three young children

• A woman is forced into a car in the beginning of the movie

• A woman feeds a young girls hamster to a young boys python and makes them watch as it slowly suffocates the hamster.

• a young woman repeatedly bangs another young woman against a drivers wheel, then proceeds to drag her body into a closet. She then tries to escape later on in the film, but is caught and killed by the first young woman.

• A young woman is burned after opening a garbage bin filled with fireworks.

• A young woman is ran over by a car.

• A couple hit a man in a car. We see his bloodied face and eye in the aftermath of the accident. We later see another young woman stuffed inside the trunk (she is unharmed)

• a woman pins a girls arm unless a young by drinks a cup of liquid

Profanity:  1 f-word load of b- and crap a spelling of W-T-F

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:

• champagne is served to couples at a fancy restaurant

• three children are drugged through something that looks like blue juice

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  there is a tense atmosphere throughout the entire movie. the behavior of anna is menacing and tense throughout the film and menacing and threatening behavior towards children

Story: A couple's replacement babysitter turns out to be more than they bargainer for when she subjects their kids to a series of twisted activities.

Likes : Wow talk about your worst nightmare as a parent , this psychological horror thriller put you in the seat of parent hiring someone to babysit your kids while you go out for a meal & not realizing the babysitter is a psychopathic mentally unstable person.

Sarah Bolger playing the unhinged person is just brilliant & convincing , also a little disturbing when she start acting in a evil behavior with the kids , this when this film take on a very sinister & dark tone as thing start to progress.

"Emilie" is an exceptional horror- thriller that belongs on your list of films to see, provided you can stomach some disturbing content that involves children in the most disturb way possible that would give an parent disturbing thoughts about who they leave their kids with.

This so reminds me of the hand that rock the cradle in some way with it psychological feeling of are your children safe its set a nightmare in which you cant control which add to the frightening theme of the film which works for it , but could of been slightly better if it wasn't for some key creative choices about halfway through its could of been on par with "Psycho" (1960) or "Fatal Attraction"(1987).

The film doesn't have a few moment when it gets really dark when she psychologically manipulate the children to violently turn against one another , there are a few disturbing scene through this film that make it a very satisfying psychological horror to watch , even a little dark at time to put a chill down your spine with Sarah performance with this character.

If your looking for a good psychological horror this is something i can recommend watching , just be warned this involving children is highly disturbing maybe be to much for some viewers to watch.

Dislikes : The only thing is didn't notice is some of the characters flash back did feel out of place of the flow of the film weren't really necessary for the film story as the psychological under tone of the film carried it just fine.

Overall : Disturbing , dark , psychological horror thriller.

 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.2 out of 10 for story.