Absolutely Brilliant!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I saw a review, a 1/10 review with the tagline "I had to stop watching". Now I hate that crap, I'm a firm believer of if you don't watch a movie all the way through then you have no right to judge it.I stand by that, but often I feel the desire to walk away. This is such a film, but I did finish it.It tells the story of a young couple and their newborn baby moving into a new home that's heavily isolated. The pair have to contend with a possible supernatural force and her suffering from postnatal depression.Starring Lukas Haas this is a mercilessly boring movie which shouldn't be considered a horror but more of a thriller, that isn't exactly thrilling.Excessively dark, mundane beyond belief and a terrible plot all come together to make The Cradle.The Good:NopeThe Bad:SO boringWeirdly dark all the timeTerrible plotThings I Learnt From This Movie:The creators may well have seen Evil Dead

The movie starts smoothly and thrilling and everything. But after half an hour through the movie, i realized that all all that was said in the movie was "Julie!". The movie gave a little bit of suspense, but the whole story doesn't make any sense, and the characters barely have a role in the whole situation. The whole movie is, (a baby is gone from the cradle--then he's back--then he's gone again--and then he's back....!!!!!) I was almost going to quit, but then i remembered that some bad movies have a nice ending. But when the movie ended, it made me even more disappointed. My sister was watching the movie with me, but she fell asleep half way through it. The events are so slow, they show you every single step the character is taking. Then you find out that all those steps lead to nothing. Haas trips every time in such a fake way, and his wife just sits there listening to her name every three minutes. I gave this movie the lowest rating i have ever given a movie, and i do NOT recommend anyone waisting his time watching this corny movie. Thank You

O.k., so here is what I think happened: He and his wife did have three miscarriages before they had this fourth baby. One night, the baby was running a fever but the roads were closed or bad due to weather and he promised his wife that as soon as the roads opened again, they would take the baby to the hospital, but for now they would have to take care of the baby themselves. Now - here is where I am not sure what happened, so I have come up with two possible scenarios:scenario 1: the baby died from his sickness before they could get him to the hospital; the wife killed herself due to the grief (jumped into the river or whatever); the husband went insane from his grief and blamed himself for the baby's death. He went delusional and held on to the baby's corpse and imagined his wife's presence. He also imagined the wife's ghost because his subconscious was telling him that she wanted the baby with her in heaven or in death or something like that - i.e. his subconscious knew they were both dead and the wife's ghost was his delusional manifestation of that. He had to finally come out of his delusion when he gave the old woman the baby because the old woman could see the baby was dead and made him face it. The end of the movie is him realizing all of this and remembering what really happened.scenario 2: basically the same as scenario 1 except for how the baby and wife died - so, instead of the baby dying of the illness and the wife from suicide, they instead decided to go to the hospital despite the weather because they were so ultra-sensitive about their baby's health because they had already lost three as stillbirths. Their car veered off the road because of the bad weather and into the river and the baby and wife were killed; as in the first scenario, the husband became crazed and delusional, carried the baby back home and pretended it didn't happen.As for the old woman and her baby sister being buried alive, I have no idea what that has to do with the story other than: 1) to give an opening to the discussion about the stillborn issue and bring that story-line forward and (2) to further the ghost story-line to throw us off the real story.Anybody have any thoughts on my interpretations?

If you have problems with depression or are a naturally depressed person - don't watch this movie.If you are starting a family, don't watch this movie.If you are hoping for a good or happy ending don't watch this movie.The description for the movie is wrong, or you could say that there are actually three right descriptions - then it would be counted as one. Yes the movie is that 'messed up'.There are three endings, you can try to separate them and choose one, or you can twist two or more together. It is best to mix them together, but for a single I do favor Frank as being completely insane from the start.While it is intentionally bleak, I feel that more background music and a more intricate build-up would have made the movie better overall.