This movie ran completely under the radar and it’s easy to see why, it’s not got much of a budget, the premise is pretty meh and no-one in the movie is particularly well known, despite hefty resumes.

Pathetic to ignore such movies as they often bring something unique which is what all horror fans cry out for.

Fickle bunch.

What makes finding this movie a decade later than release extra sad is that I learned the lead, Skye McCole Bartusiak, passed away two years after it’s release aged only 21.

Here she plays Lucy, a young woman who is a little lost in life. After spending $15,000 on becoming a dental nurse she faints during a fairly routine procedure and can’t go back to work. Her fiance tells her and not to worry, he can support them both until after the wedding and to take her time figuring out what she wants.

Lucy accepts reluctantly so when her friend has to turn down a well paid babysitting job and suggests Lucy take it instead she jumps at the chance.

The job seems a little odd. Lucy meets the mother, Dr Helen Gordan, who says her son, Jeremy, is very ill and stays in his room at all times. He isn’t contagious but Lucy is to stay away from the basement where his room is and call Helen if anything weird happens.

She also pays a prodigious $400 per night.

Evidence that something more strange than a sickly kid is going on occurs when Lucy finds a recent note on the fridge asking someone to pick Jeremy up from soccer practice and she finds that the baby monitor she has to listen on is brand new.

She also finds very recent pictures showing the family in Venezuela where Jeremy looks normal and healthy.

What’s going on?

The script is pretty horrible and the budget is small but it has heart and a reasonable twist on a classic horror story.

It feels old and lo-fi which I miss and may have given me a soft spot for this movie