tfminfl Starts off creepily enough, a girl walking down the street gets abducted broad daylight, no one notices, seconds later, everything's calm, and the Thompsons' are planning a night out, it's their anniversary!! And the babysitter... a friend of friend of a friend, type deal, Anna is hired to watch the kiddos. And all is great for a while, til it takes a really creepy turn, involving the 11 year old boy walking in on Anna in the bathroom, but she doesn't mind, after all, she just had her period and needs the kid to find his moms tampons for her, ahh kids... And after reading the kids a bedtime story, her own life story, we know Anna is not Anna, she is um, insane... I thought it was a pretty intense horror/thriller, and I think it's worth a watch! Filmbufftim on FB.

BA_Harrison If you've seen and enjoyed McG's 2017 film The Babysitter, check out Emelie from two years earlier, a nifty little shocker that also sees a young lad having to do battle with a child minder who is up to no good.The nutty babysitter in this case is Anna (Sarah Bolger), who starts to act weird as soon as the kids' parents leave the house, searching the rooms, breaking into the family security box, asking eleven year old Jacob (Joshua Rush) to pass her a tampon while she is sat on the loo, and allowing the children to draw on the walls. As the evening draws on, Anna gets progressively loopy, feeding Sally's hamster to Jacob's pet python, playing a most unsuitable video for the children, and reading little Christopher (Thomas Bair) a very strange bedtime story about a young woman whose mind cracks after she accidentally kills her baby. It turns out that Anna is actually called Emelie and that she intends to take Christopher as a replacement for her dead infant.With competent direction from Michael Thelin, natural performances from the three children and an extremely chilling turn from Bolger as a total whack job, this is, for the most part, a very effective (and sometimes rather disturbing) thriller, which is only let down by a somewhat weak payoff that feels like a set up for a sequel.

Leofwine_draca EMELIE is a generally poor addition to the psycho-thriller genre of film-making that manages to waste a great deal of early promise in a story that gradually falls apart the more it goes on. It sees Sarah Bolger playing a mysterious babysitter from hell who puts her charges through a series of increasingly unpleasant and awkward experiences. The first half successfully builds suspense but the second half becomes very arty and drawn-out, feeling very much like the writer had no idea how to create an ending with impact. I watched this mainly for Bolger, who I loved in THE TUDORS and have followed ever since. She doesn't disappoint, and neither do the child actors here, so it's a pity the writing lets them down.

elettrozero Slow, too slow, not frightening, not scary, a bit of a thriller with no surprises. Sure the acting is good, the photography is good, technically, the film is well made but, honestly, the whole film could have lasted 30 minutes (with advs), have more suspense in it (I guess they tried to put some suspense but they failed). The pace is constant till the end making no climax at all. Don't bother to watch it, it's a C movie with a nice cover.