All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Following the birth of their son, a yuppie couple hires a mysterious nanny to care for him only for a series of strange incidents around them eventually causes them to believe that she's sacrificing babies to a spirit being and must race to stop her before she finishes.This was an overall decent effort without too much to really like here. One of the film's few positives here is the way this manages to really make the cult she's a part of seem like a creepy, mysterious entity. The first half here mainly comes off like a series of strange incidents around the house that don't really amount to much, yet all come together to build up a rather chilling concept here of the sacrificial cult. From the constant needling of the breastfeeding onto others, the way she always manages to wind up in the baby's care whenever something happens around them that could endanger them and the slow-burn way it leads into the revelation of her actual identity, so although there's not a whole lot of action here these scenes build up his feeling rather nicely. As well, there are some solid action scenes here featuring the group of thugs encountering her out in the woods and being drawn back to the killer trees which pick them off in rapid succession, the wolves stalking the one witness back to his house and forcing him back through all the different rooms before trapping him in a thrilling sequence and the finale in the woods is a lot of fun with the wolves ambushing them leading into the battle at the tree that gives this one a really frantic and exciting finish. Alongside the great and somewhat gorier kills than expected here, these here are what make this one enjoyable over the film's few flaws. It's two main problems are quite easy to spot and go hand-in-hand with each other, the cheesiness and its sheer ridiculousness. The ridiculousness of it might be its worst offense. There's no way that any of this could happened and the ability to keep it straight-faced and serious is a bit of a stretch to believe. Once it gets to the tree attack late in the film, then it gets too far out there to really become plausible. It just seems so out-of-place in a film about a psychotic nanny. The fact that the mystery surrounding her backstory is quite hard to get into all around and lacks just about any sense of cohesion also doesn't help since the entire concept of the cult is never given here and the only thing we get is their inherent creepiness to sustain us which doesn't last all that long. Though there are some that could be put off by the slow pace as well, as this doesn't move at the fastest point possible as well, these here are the whole of the film's problems.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Language, a mild sex scene and children-in-jeopardy.

The Guardian (1990)* 1/2 (out of 4) A text at the start of the movie tells us how Druids used to scarifies humans to trees. Flash forward to couple Phil (Dwier Brown) and Kate (Carey Lowell) who find themselves to proud parents to a new baby boy. They end up hiring a nanny named Camilla (Jenny Seagrove) not realizing that she's previously stolen babies and fed them to a tree in the woods.William Friedkin finally returned to the horror genre nearly two decades after his ground-breaking film THE EXORCIST. If you're going to watch this movie then it's best that you don't go in expecting another movie at the level of that one because THE GUARDIAN is pretty bad on many different levels. I think the idea of a woman giving babies to a tree for a scarifies is actually a pretty interesting idea but sadly the screenplay here just offers up predictable scene after another and in the end there's just nothing too thrilling here.The biggest problem is the screenplay because it's all quite predictable and I can honestly say that there's not a single thing that happens here that you don't expect. Take the sex scene between the husband and the wife. Don't you just know he's going to open his eyes and see the nanny as the one he's having sex with? There's the fact that the police don't believe the couple after they find out what's going on. These are just two examples of the predictable things that happen throughout.There are a few good moments that keep this from being a complete stinker. I thought Seagrove was very good in the role of the deadly woman. She's very believable as the "good" nanny but she's also quite seductive in the evil parts. Both Brown and Lowell are also good in their parts as is Brad Hall. I'd also say that the music score was quite effective and Friedkin did manage to create one very good sequence dealing with a man trapped inside his house with evil coming to him.The gore effects are also another major plus as they actually managed to get quite a bit past the MPAA. There are a couple memorable death scenes and I would add that the living tree was a very good effect and the scenes of it eating people were effective. Still, THE GUARDIAN just has too many issues with the story and the lack of any real scares really brings it down.

Busy career-oriented, Phil and Kate decide to get a nanny for their two-week old newborn, however unbeknownst to them the one they pick, Carmilla, is a Hamadryad (google it) who feeds newborn babies to her favorite tree who happens to love her back, so that's mutual. Yea it's as ridicules as it sounds.What is, for all intents, simply a watchable gory b-movie schlock fest, would be an enjoyable enough time-killer if not for the mere fact that I hold William Friedkin of a higher caliber than that. With the sheer amount of brilliant films that he's made, I can't really help but think of this one as a misstep, one that turned out as a guilty pleasure, but a misstep nonetheless.My Grade: CEye Candy: Jenny Seagrove shows T&A multiple times. . Carey Lowell gets topless (might be a body double though)

THE GUARDIAN seems like one of the more average achievements of master Friedkin–an urban Gothic tale, a grim fairy tale fostering the audiences' fear of the woods.Jenny Seagrove was a fine beauty and an average but interesting actress; here she gets to play 'Camilla', name of LeFanuesque resonance, and at least she offers something to glimpse at in her few nude scenes. The action keeps linear, the treatment will appear like quite unsubtle. A young and not very likable couple has a newborn son and hires a babysitter to look after him—the babysitter is Mrs. Seagrove. Very quickly Friedkin reveals that Jenny is a freak.