64
Metascore
26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireEmpireA unexpected pleasure to watch, disturbing for new parents, slightly silly but ever so enjoyable.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis jovially sinister, middle-class morality tale-cum-horror show is predictable, implausible and fiendishly entertaining.
- 70Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerLos Angeles TimesPeter RainerBut the film isn’t just a well-made TV-style thriller either. It’s on to something--the way upwardly mobile parents, hoping to make their lives more professionally fulfilling, unwittingly bring the danger of the unknown into their lives.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThere’s no denying the movie gets a rise out of us, but it does so by mining the fears within our hokiest prejudices.
- De Mornay is oddly compelling as Mott. There’s a gleeful joy in watching her slow, insidious progress, and it’s hard not to secretly root for her character.
- 50Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyThis anti-feminist parable is both a labor and a pain.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyThough Mr. Hanson ("Bad Influence," "The Bedroom Window") is a slick movie maker, he is not an especially persuasive one here.