"I will always be happy with horror that eschews predictable jump scares for a more insidious terror, one built of character, tension, and unease. That is the case with the first two thirds of this home invasion film as we follow a babysitter looking after three children for the night.
The performances are good, surprisingly so from the children considering how much they are featured, our titular character putting in a wonderfully restrained piece that is slowly leaked scene by scene. As things gradually grow more and more peculiar the tension mounts well, the almost surreal snippets of what she does to make the children uncomfortable debased and fascinating.
Alas, whilst the reveal is tragic, it does not evolve from that, instead degenerating into rather standard slasher fare, the uniquely squirmable scenes prior replaced with a vanilla third act"
- 6/10
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