I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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

I felt this movie was very well done. I did not know it was suppose to be a horror because I watched it through the Rogers and did not have the DVD cover. To me it portrays a woman with postpartum depression. She was given advise by her doctor to move away and start over which she did not really agree with, however went along with the idea hoping that things would change in time. Soon after moving she is still very depressed and can not handle the baby.Her husband gets side tracked by the storm after trying to befriend the neighbour leaving his wife alone with the baby. I feel she lost it and killed the baby. We have a clue of this in the video camera when she is shaking the baby's cradle as the ghost.The husband becomes delusional after arriving home and finding the baby dead and his wife missing. She appears again in his mind in the nursery after he hears the baby start to cry and this is where he continues his psychotic behavior. I feel there is a ghostly element to the story, the ghost of his wife appears on the video and the baby cries in the forest. The rest of the time she appears as a figment of his imagination. He knows in his subconscious that they are both dead and his dreams confirm this. Also when he pulls the sliver from her arm, and seeing her head smashed was a reminder that she was really dead, but refused to acknowledge reality at that time. The ghost in the nursery was another reminder, it was his dead wife pointing to the baby telling him that she wanted him to free the child, and let it go. It was not until his neighbour still suffering from the guilt of her childhood, told him the child was dead. This put him back into his real reality and he started to review what really happened. The ending to me clearly shows in the video that the child and mother were reunited as they appear as ghosts together, and the mother finally accepting her child in the afterlife.To anyone who has ever witnessed postpartum depression this movie is a real take on reality. Also the grief of the husband put into a psychotic state from grief was also portrayed realistically I feel.I felt this movie was well done. It was not a horror to me, but a situation that can happen in real life. I found it compelling and sad.

This is the worst movie ever to be put to film. Long, boring, the only thing terrifying about this movie was the two hours of my life I wasted watching it. The acting is sub par and annoying. The length of this movie coupled with the boring pace will have you on edge, but not in a good way, no, in a way that makes you wish you never heard of this film. I am the kind of person that loves all horror films, from the grade A top shelf, to the Z grade schlock. This movie is not a horror film, it is a psycho drama that starts bad and ends even worse. This movie has no redeeming qualities. If you value the horror film genre or movies in general stay away from this load of horse manure. I was a firm believer that all movies, even bad movies, have redeeming and enjoyable qualities....until I saw this movie.

OK so after watching this movie and being completely clueless and confused about what really happened I came up with this..Everything you saw before frank finding Sam "dead" Then when frank leaned over and the baby started to breath that was franks imagination it never happened through out the rest of this movie the baby was actually dead but frank though he was alive..Now when you see Julie crying in the corner say that Sam stopped breathing and she ran but came back also was franks imagination when Julie ran after finding Sam dead in the cradle that is when she fell off the waterfall and died..Frank was hallucinated through the rest of the movie so he wouldn't have the deal with the grief of losing them both..you see when he drops his flashlight that it shines in Julie's face it was trying to show him that she's dead same with the stick in her arm and her face being bloody.now as for the ghost in the nursery that was Julie trying to show frank that the baby was dead. the dreams he was having of the baby dying in the washing machine and the stove were dreams that's it.. that crazy lady that lived next door her whole purpose of the movie was basically to show frank at the end that Sam was dead she said he was dead for days..i didn't really see why they brought up Helen's sister being buried alive i don't believe she was haunting them it had no relevance to the movie what so ever cause when frank is in the kitchen and there is a face in the window that face of Julie after she died...the ending shows when it all comes together and makes sense to frank that everything that happened in the last few days was part of his imagination and not real so in conclusion everything that happened after finding Sam unconscious in the cradle was all in franks head