SYNOPSICS
Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998) is a English movie. Walter Klenhard has directed this movie. Josie Bissett,Jason Beghe,Barbara Tyson,Jeffrey Noah are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1998. Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998) is considered one of the best Thriller movie in India and around the world.
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl and baby. Two men are hired to kill the girl and hold the son hostage in order for her to play the hero and reclaim her husband. The plan hits a snag when the criminals enter the wrong apartment.
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Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998) Reviews
Fairly Exciting Film
I liked this film, and I think other user comments are unduly harsh. The script is more innovative than most crime thrillers. The script design -- of having interlocking baby monitors in next-door apartments -- and working that into the danger of the young children, is unique. The acting is very good. True, the last five minutes are Hollywood Stale, and some of the things in the plot are unbelievable, but the film holds my interest.
Get off the babysitter...
"Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear" was shown on BBC1 last week without "Baby Monitor" in the title, in a bid to make it sound less silly. The attempt succeeded with the title, but that still leaves the movie itself. A remake of the German TV movie "Babyfon" (!), it's the heartwarming story of a beautiful nanny (Josie Bissett), the employer she loves and who loves her (Jason Beghe), the son she dotes on, and the wife (Barbara Tyson) who won't be running for the president of her fan club; the stage isn't set for a riveting thriller, less due to the cast (which isn't all that good for the most part, especially the boy playing the whiny little brat our heroine takes care of - quite frankly, I was rooting for him to be rubbed out) than do adaptor-director Walter Klenhard. I've complained about his work before with "Rush of Fear" (there's that word again), and while this isn't quite as awful, it does rank just as high on the idiocy scale. While in the right hands the scenario of an innocent woman at the mercy of psychos with neither knowing where the other is can be (and has been) done effectively, here Klenhard's sloppy directing and slack writing wipe out any suspense and rack up the unsubtle hints ("You could scream for days and nobody could hear you") while the implausibilities steadily get in the way of any effectiveness - one of the few decent moments comes when Josie is trying to get out of the locked-up condo where most of the action takes place and finds she's trying to force the gate open with the plank the villains used to beat her friend to death, but then you're wondering why they dragged her corpse out of her apartment in the first place. And why she's never mentioned again afterwards (even in the denouement). And why nobody seems to be in that building but them. And marvelling at the way setups are so blatantly contrived throughout (watch for those blankets). If nothing else, "Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear" does deserve credit for getting so absurd that the jaw-dropping final act actually sends the movie into so-bad-it's-good territory. And it is still better, as stated earlier, than the same director's "Rush of Fear" - which I sincerely hope BBC1 doesn't show in the same slot that this TV movie was in; it would hurt us Rosanna Arquette fans a lot if it was scheduled after little sister Patricia in "Medium" as well...
A quirky little thriller
BABY MONITOR: THE SOUND OF FEAR is a quirky, nifty little made-for- cable thriller about a babysitter running from vicious hitmen hired by her lover's wife. Josie Bissett (wife of SILK STALKINGS star Rob Estes) stars as Ann, the resourceful baby-sitter who takes on the killers and still has the time to tuck in her babysat at night.
You will cheer for the cheaters
When you watch you WILL cheer for the babysitter and the husband. The wife is a horrible beast of a woman. This should be kind of a cult movie if nothing else. You will hate her for minute one. The cheating husband is likable. There is one saving spot in the movie when you think "I wish he would do this or that to that witch and HE DOES". I am watching this right now with about 20 or so minutes left and do not know the outcome. I just hope it is that he leaves his wife, sues for full custody of his kid and builds a life a with the babysitter. That is my hope... which is a lot to ask in the last 20 minutes of the movie.
This was bad!!
Some friends and I happened to be flipping through the channels and we came across this movie. USA has had a history of coming out with bad movies, but this one took the cake. Those were the two dumbest criminals since Home Alone. Anyways, it sucks, please don't waste the time or braincells watching it.