In "Nanny Nightmare" (a.k.a., "Hush Little Baby"), a young musician named Owen Leery is quite enterprising in worming his way into the lives of the Bell family. Growing up, Lauren Bell would babysit Owen. Now, Owen has grown into the young man who becomes the "manny" to help Lauren and James manage their busy household. Unbeknownst to the Bells, Owen has been obsessed with Lauren for two decades, and he now seeks to claim what he believes is his birthright in becoming the new man of the house.
Technically, the film was very dark with many of the interior scenes filmed in chiarascuro. The darkness also affected the content with an increasing sense not only of the sinister, but the overtly disturbing in Owen's psychopathic behavior. His murder of James's nice secretary Summer cast a pall on the film, as well as Owen's overall design to kill the young Bell son, Carter. With James and Carter out of the picture, the path will be cleared for Owen to have Lauren and baby Riley all to himself.
Throughout the film, it appeared that Lauren was being too hard on her husband James. First, he was banished to the guest house when Lauren believed (incorrectly) that James was having an affair with Summer. Then, he was banished entirely from the premises after he (correctly) perceived the deranged nature of Owen and gave him a good thrashing.
The close of the film degenerated into the horror genre with a gory stabbing and ax-slashing finale. But the filmmakers reserved their most ghoulish touch for the denouement, when Lauren learns from her bestie Megan that Owen likely substituted his sperm for that of James, and Owen is the father of little Riley. The film's theme song of "Hush Little Baby" thereby takes on a grim irony with the spirit of Owen living on in the DNA of the innocent child.
Technically, the film was very dark with many of the interior scenes filmed in chiarascuro. The darkness also affected the content with an increasing sense not only of the sinister, but the overtly disturbing in Owen's psychopathic behavior. His murder of James's nice secretary Summer cast a pall on the film, as well as Owen's overall design to kill the young Bell son, Carter. With James and Carter out of the picture, the path will be cleared for Owen to have Lauren and baby Riley all to himself.
Throughout the film, it appeared that Lauren was being too hard on her husband James. First, he was banished to the guest house when Lauren believed (incorrectly) that James was having an affair with Summer. Then, he was banished entirely from the premises after he (correctly) perceived the deranged nature of Owen and gave him a good thrashing.
The close of the film degenerated into the horror genre with a gory stabbing and ax-slashing finale. But the filmmakers reserved their most ghoulish touch for the denouement, when Lauren learns from her bestie Megan that Owen likely substituted his sperm for that of James, and Owen is the father of little Riley. The film's theme song of "Hush Little Baby" thereby takes on a grim irony with the spirit of Owen living on in the DNA of the innocent child.