The Lullaby

March. 01,2017      
Rating:
3.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Returning to her home town, overwhelmed by the birth of her firstborn, nineteen-year-old Chloe van Heerden tries to come to terms with motherhood. Despite the support from her own mother, Chloe struggles with the demands of caring for a newborn child. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia send her into a dark depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, she sees danger everywhere.

Reine Swart as  Chloe van Heerden
Brandon Auret as  Dr. Timothy Reed
Dorothy Ann Gould as  Midwife

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Reviews

VeteranLight
2017/03/01

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Beanbioca
2017/03/02

As Good As It Gets

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Jenna Walter
2017/03/03

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Casey Duggan
2017/03/04

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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khaled-76646
2017/03/05

It is a terrible movie. It is so boring you would be more interested in watching your hand's movement through the fluid that we call it air. It is so boring you wouldn't feel the time passing. Because it wouldn't pass you will be stuck in a time loop forever. If you're an atheist after watching this movie you'll definitely believe in a higher power that saved you from the time loop that is called the lullaby.Acting, terrible. Producing, terrible. Music, terrible. Directing, terrible.There are only 2 advantages of this film: 1- It is so boring the cinema would be empty after 15 minutes of this film, You'll feel like you own the place. 2- It is so bad you'd appreciate how good other movies are.

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eloisebean
2017/03/06

I feel like this would have benefited with better talent attached to it. I would have much rather it be a drama/thriller. To me all the demonic haunted house delusions, weaken what could have been. the lead actress looks like barbra palvin

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SashaDarko
2017/03/07

I thought it was going to be your average horror movie, but it's absolutely not. It's a very heavy drama which deals with such themes as horrors of the motherhood, mental illness and rape. All of this and a paranormal element on top of it which references genocide in concentration camps during Anglo-Boer War in 1901.The horror scenes are terrifying and very effective. The actors' performances are excellent and add a lot to the overall heavy atmosphere.

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GL84
2017/03/08

Having just given birth to her son, a new mother returns to her mother's house to help raise him, and as their clash of ideals on how to raise him starts to toy with her the idea that something supernatural is trying to hurt him and forces her into a battle with her sanity to stop it.On the whole, this was a pretty cliched effort overall. The main factor against this one is the fact that so much of this one tends to feel like every other genre effort in this style. The vast majority of the film is incredibly familiar without too many variations, ranging from the sleepless nights up tending to the crying child and ignoring everything around her to deal with these fictitious moments to the inability to recognize the supernatural antics affecting her that could just as easily be just any normal everyday activity. This runs rampant throughout the first half of the film which causes this one to feel incredibly familiar and overly cliched due to the reappearance of all the same setups normally seen in such films. Given that majority of these take place in accordance with the family drama that takes place here doesn't do this one any favors at all since there's little about these scenes that are enjoyable. Again trading on numerous aspects throughout here that are seen many times over, the concept of her behavior and antics directly contradicting her mothers' ideas of childrearing which are handled through rather familiar arguments from being forgetful about locking it out in a different room, holding it in specific positions or generally being considered incompetent on subjects that mothers should be well-versed in. These areas are nowhere near interesting as the idea of these scenes are just dull and their drama-like nature doesn't make for a horror-centric viewing for the most part here. That is the biggest factor against this one since the film takes forever to get going into its horror-based reality that this one is a nearly-impossible entry to get into. Once it does go for some horror-based moments, this one has some decent ideas with the whole effort being about the deterioration of her psyche throughout the film. Taking the stellar backstory inspiration for the figure in her nightmares or the other forces acting on her psyche, this builds up into a rather intriguing and potentially fine storyline that really offers numerous scenes that showcase the breakdown of her psyche as physical acts. From her normal parenting duties that take place here bathing it, tending to it and all that really goes into helping prepare the baby for life, there's a great overbearing sense of dread building up her emotional state connecting the backstory of the ghostly figure to the freakout. This causes the final half to have some stellar energy and brutality which comes with some stellar sequences featuring a few decent jump-scenes with the best bloody scenes in the film. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot else to like here.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and constant themes of children-in-danger.

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