Struggling to find tenants, a pregnant woman decides to find some extra funds by taking a nanny job working at a farmhouse to keep herself afloat, but the longer she stays there a series of ghostly incidents steer her towards a deadly secret about her employers that put her and her baby in jeopardy.
Overall, there's quite a lot to like about this one. One of the better elements here is a fantastic setup that lets an intriguing and chilling enough storyline for what's happening. Managing to showcase the need for her desperate state of drowning in debt, dabbling in black magic to talk with her husband, being unable to find a suitable patron to rent out her home and about to give birth, the desperation to take the job in her condition is established nicely. Once there, getting to see the run-through of the tasks and training for the job to get an idea of what's expected compliments everything nicely as this tends to introduce a sense of normalcy in her life while also hinting nicely at the uneasy nature of the host family. It all provides a generally likable and immersive means of finding out the true nature of what's going on. This setup allows the film a fertile playing field for its supernatural antics. Already given a big berth with her resorting to black magic spells to contact her dead husband, the discovery of ghosts in the house is not that far removed at the new house when she arrives. These scenes are built-up quite nicely as well where she comes across the ghosts of previous nannies reaching out for help, but unaware of their true purpose and reacting more to their ghostly presence and unexpected appearance contorting themselves unnaturally to get her attention in some genuinely chilling setpieces. The big finale, offering a fantastic series of encounters with the big ghosts around the house as well as a demented version of a Nativity Scene that takes this to great lengths in the big finish to everything, all make for a lot to like that holds this up. There are some issues with this one that bring it down. Among the biggest factors is the seemingly cliched means of how this treats the ghostly inhabitants of the house throughout the first half. By giving away a big reveal as the cold open to everything, this takes a lot of the suspense out of the events surrounding her employment there which is distressing. Hardly any of this works in terms of setting up a unique feel to the hallucinations and dreams that turn out to be the source of the ghostly interactions and serves up a rather cliched notion of events that takes place. In addition, this one manages to undo a lot of the goodwill that had been built up by having what should've been a great effect ruined by a downright lousy and laughable CGI effect that is continued quite heavily throughout the film as well. These all give this one its few issues.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language.
