Karen (Kate Black-Spence) has to go away
on business for the weekend, leaving their toddler Oliver (Donovan
Klein) to her husband Martin (Timmy Hart
Barron), who hasn't totally wrapped his head around fatherhood to
begin with. But he figures he can do it for one weekend at least - and
everything's good until it's time to sleep, and little Oliver cries his
soul out, for hours into the late night, and Martin hears every second of
it over the baby phone. Thing is, eventually, the sounds he hears are not
only Oliver crying no more but weird voices and noises, and when he hears
his wife and it's somehow suggested she has died in a car crash, he
completely loses his nerves ... Cry It Out is a film
better not shown to new parents ... because it's that well-made, it really
takes a very simple and (in a young parent's life) everyday situation, and
milks it for all its horror, blows up what's in the back of one's mind,
makes the terror and despair palpable, thanks to imaginative filmmaking, a
well-structured story, and of course a very solid central performances. Watch
it - but note, you'll never want to have a kid again after this one ;)
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