Review of Emelie

Emelie is a highly believable family nightmare, with the baby-sitter turning on the kids. What makes Emelie a 10 is that the kids are visibly kids, and look their ages of 4, 7 and 9. The very seriousness of how this movie is put together, with great tragic piano soundscape re-enforcing each dire turn for the worst, is another reason it scores a 10. The filmmaker's vision is a serious film about a serious possibility, and it's just so damn harrowing from the opening shock to the pull-your-hair out climax. No teen chutzpah here, just a nightmare, and it is all the more gripping for the magnificent sense of reality, and dread, it so brilliantly portrays.