Review of The Monitor (2014) by Ben C — 28 Jul 2012

The Swedes have cornered the market in cerebral and nuanced horror movies of late and Babycall's mix of parental guilt and psychological drama is another taut and layered mystery from the country that gave us Let the Right One In and the Millennium trilogy.

Ms. Rapace makes for a believably anxious mother (whose paranoia hides a truth more shocking than the script initially lets on), imbuing the often confusing plot with humanity and painting a stark portrait of a woman at the end of her rope.

While its not as dramatic as such movies as The Sixth Sense, Babycall's reserved approach still makes for a subtly unnerving chiller.