CRADLE WILL FALL - AKA 'Baby Blues'. Surprisingly harsh watch for a Poundland lucky dip. Based, very loosly, on Andrea Yates, this well made low budgeter follows a young mother's descent into fatal brood-bashing and sustains a convincingly harrowing tone throughout. OK, it's not a nuanced portrait of post-partum psychosis, and, with its stylised lighting, 'the voices are calling you...' type sound fx and cat & mouse slash by numbers climax, it plays too many genre moves to get even close its subject matter. But it doesn't flinch either, and several sequences are just really difficult to watch. So, a definite success at the level of stripped down exploitation with a grim attitude, whereas the answer to the question 'Who can kill a child?' is located in a far more tragic reality to the one occupied by this film.
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