Mystery/Thriller ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake | Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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[DarkKnight88]

Thankfully not stretched into a 10 episode streaming series lol

 

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[Deck Rickard]

I’m down. Love these two.

 

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[The Shape]

I've always liked the original, and there is room for improvement. Definitely down for this.

 

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Martin Starr Joins Maika Monroe in ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ Remake (Exclusive)

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is also starring in the 20th Century Studios feature.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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[Sawyer]

THIS October?? Damn, I didn’t even realize they had begun filming.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I guess straight to Hulu says everything you need to know.

 

[Pennywise]

Coming October 22nd.

https://people.com/hand-that-rocks-...=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=***********

Though the movie is a remake of the 1992 film, which starred Annabella Sciorra and Matt McCoy as the couple and Rebecca De Mornay as the nanny, this update is no carbon copy, promises director Michelle Garza Cervera, who teases plenty of “shocking moments.”

“The studio gave me all the chances to recreate the whole thing and build a new story, new characters, with its own heart. I think that was the best way to honor the original, not try to redo it,” she says. “We build a whole different kind of thriller. It's actually more of a slow burn.”

The setting moves from Seattle to Los Angeles, and Garza Cervera says the characters have different, more complex backstories.

“Instead of having just a victim and a perpetrator, they're both in gray areas,” she says of Polly and Caitlin. “I love the kind of antagonists that you can, on a point, empathize with. So there's a very interesting game, like yin and yang that happens between them.”

Garza Cervera says Monroe, a scream queen known for horror films like It Follows and Longlegs, was the perfect person to play Polly: “She brings a very evil, contained tone to the film that I'm super proud of.”

 

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[DarthSkywalker]

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Day one ish.

 

[Mysteryman]

Why no theatrical release?

 

[The Shape]

Why no theatrical release?

It probably sucks, unfortunately. Even the still photos make it look like a "streaming movie".

 

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[Frodo]

Well , I'm biased since I've literally been a fan of the original ,since I saw it in theaters, 30 odd years ago.

It's the film where I discovered Rebecca De Mornay , and is up there with Single White Female, featuring the equally great , Jennifer Jason Leigh .

Granted, this version looks like it's going in a different direction all together, and that it's its own thing, in terms of the motivation of The Nanny .

I'd highly recommend the original The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Single White Female to those who haven't seen them .

They're dated , but still campy, early 90s fun, in a time, just before the internet .

 

[The Shape]

I also really like the original Hand that Rocks the Cradle. We'll see how this one turns out.

 

[Dave McFly]

I remember how great the original one and how unhinged Rebecca's character was I have not seen it in years sadly.

 

[Sithborg]

Darth's going to kill me for not recognizing MEW.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Generic AF!

If this doesn’t have her attacking kids on the playground, then WTF is the point?

 

[Frodo]

It was made a decade after Risky Business, and she was still stunning .

But yeah, her characters was scary when unhinged , but was also methodically , calculating, and manipulative.

While not the iconic and classic character ,that Glen Close was in Fatal Attraction or that Sharon Stone was in Basic Instinct , she was still a very good on screen villain imo.

I still think Rebecca DeMornay would have made a great Mystique ,or Emma Frost ,had they made
X Men films in the 1980s and 1990s