Wish they had more time to build the backstory and character build up. But not a bad movie I've seen a lot worse. The baby constantly crying in this movie stupid. In the real world a parent would just let the baby cry it out or cry itself to sleep but it was a good movie. Becoming a parent is one of the scariest and most stressful parts of a person's life and the makers of Lullaby understand that and incorporate the effects of sleep deprivation, postpartum body image issues and the overwhelming fear of something happening to the child into the script.
The problem is, the script wastes them on things we've seen so many times before. Electronics malfunctioning, a ghostly baby crying in the night, the lights go out in a thunderstorm for maximum jump scare potential, an evil face peering out of a closet. We've seen these so many times before that it feels like a modern horror's greatest hits playlist. To his credit, Leonetti does stage them with some conviction but by this point, they've pretty much lost their power to shock beyond a cheap jump scare.
The problem is, the script wastes them on things we've seen so many times before. Electronics malfunctioning, a ghostly baby crying in the night, the lights go out in a thunderstorm for maximum jump scare potential, an evil face peering out of a closet. We've seen these so many times before that it feels like a modern horror's greatest hits playlist. To his credit, Leonetti does stage them with some conviction but by this point, they've pretty much lost their power to shock beyond a cheap jump scare.