Dreadfully Boring

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

One night, Linda Pratman (Darlanne Fluegel) had her baby born in the hospital but at that same moment, an dangerous psychopath (Denise Crosby) had her baby in the same hospital in that night. Four years has passed, Linda's son Adam (Matthew Dupuis) might be autistic. Adam loves to draw but he finds himself fascinated by crime TV shows. At first, Linda noticed how strange her son is coming to be. While deadly accidents are happening in the house or near their house. Linda is starting to convinced that Adam might not be her son. While Adam might not be as innocent he seems to be.Directed by George Mihalka (Les Boys 4, La Florida, My Bloody Valentine) made an entertaining suspense-thriller with some amusing darkly funny moments. Fluegel and Dupuis are certainly good in the movie. M. Emmet Walsh appears in a small role as Linda's father. James Brolin is certainly in this movie for an paycheck as the candy-loving detective. Perphas what is notable for the movie, it is one of the earlier written scripts by Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Law Abiding Citizen, The Recruit). "The Child" does have some guilty pleasure moments and it is also worth an look. Original title of the film was "Relative Fear". (****/*****).

SPOILERS!! This is the story of a family with an autistic child. Isn't that exciting? Adam is a four year old boy who is apparently autistic, despite the fact that he doesn't seem to show any signs of it, other than he can't talk. He is a gifted artist, and he loves the Crime Channel. As his drawing become more and more violent, people around him start to die. Is it Adam committing the murders? Perhaps if the movie didn't give everything away in the first few minutes we might think so. As it turns out the "twist" is obvious from the get go, although it makes little sense.None of the actors were great, a few were really horrible, but no one was so bad that you had to turn the movie off. The little boy who plays Adam spends the whole movie in a trance (I guess thats his autism?), and he makes you want to slap him.There are other, better movies with similar themes that I would recommend such as the Bad Seed, The Good Son, or even Mikey, although the "twist" does make this movie slightly different from those listed above.

this was actually quite decent i must say the acting was not bad but it falls victim do to a few unlikable characters but other then that this was a well made sometimes suspenseful chiller although there is some poor dialog at times it didn't hurt it all that much either it had a pretty good twist ending that i didn't see coming.And check out the laughable death scene where there is marbles all over the stairs the detective slips and falls to his death pretty lame still i rather enjoyed this one the finale will is quite suspenseful Darlanne Fluegel is good as the caring mother she gives a good show and is very likable the rest of the cast was decent at best overall we have a watchable romp thats worth a rent you might be surprised like i was **1/2 out of 5

this was a pretty good movie..i was surfing channels and came across this..relative fear is a real creepy affair..especially the autistic adam that kid creeped the s**t out of me... the plot was good and so were the twists....but creepy adam stole the show ... so if you like thrillers with good twists then relative fear is for you... i give it 8/10 and will never look at 4 year old autistic kids the same again