Emelie (2016)
After their regular babysitter cancels, the Thompson family turns to her friend, Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits, but as her behaviour becomes increasingly odd, the kids soon find out that her intentions are dark and twisted—and she is not who she seems to be.
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Whoa. There was some twisted stuff in this movie, and it made me highly uncomfortable, so I guess it achieved its purpose. For me, however, it wasn't a fun experience watching this movie, not until the firecrackers, at least. Yeah, I wouldn't really recommend anyone watch this, wouldn't like what that would say about me. I wanted to punch Emelie in the face the entire movie. The actors did a good job in their parts, and the film was well-made, but I can't stomach a babysitter sexually corrupting minors. I hate when they introduce creepy sex pervs into horror movies, like when they made Freddy a child molester in the Elm Street remake, it was like, What did you go and do that for? Ain't nobody going to be dressing up as Freddy for Halloween no more! But, I digress. No, no. These filmmakers made choices without considering their audience.
"Emelie" starts out as intriguing, then falls apart in the third act. I agree with some of the other reviews alluding to this. Also, the last part of the film is so poorly LIT, it is difficult to see what is going on. Satisfactory for passing your time if nothing else is available on Netflix.
I made an account just to warn people about how awful this movie was. The entire premise is ridiculous. Why would she sit around doing random things to these random children, instead of drugging them and taking the baby immediately after the parents left? Bam whole movie over in five minutes. You can tell most of the things in this film were only added for shock factor and not to actually contribute to the story in any way. Just awful
Two parents go out for an evening leaving their three children in the hands of a babysitter. As the parents leave it becomes immediately apparent that the sitter is not who she appears to be and subjects the children to a number of twisted and uncomfortable activities. The first half of Emelie is a relatively slow build and does a good job of revealing the titular characters disturbing and psychotic motives and this is supported by some good performances by the three child actors. It does come close in the closing act of becoming like a dark & violent Home Alone but the filmmakers did a good job not letting it get too silly or over the top. Emelie is not a particularly memorable or original story but its fairly tense in places, well made and succeeds on the performances by its young cast of acting talent. Unfortunately it tells a simple and unoriginal story and is immediately forgettable after the credits roll. 5/10