Over the course of her profession, Maika Monroe has emerged as one in every of our most dependable fashionable scream queens. Between “The Visitor,” “It Follows,” “Watcher,” “Greta,” “Villains,” “Longlegs,” “Tau,” and plenty of extra, while you see her identify in horror film credit, you possibly can normally guess that Monroe would be the blood-soaked closing lady we’re all cheering for to the bitter finish.
In order that makes it all of the extra fascinating that, for her subsequent horror function, a remake of Curtis Hanson’s 1992 horror hit “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” (which starred Rebecca De Mornay and Annabella Sciorra), Monroe is that this time enjoying the baddie. Per the movie‘s official synopsis: “Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Caitlin Morales, an upscale suburban mother who brings a brand new nanny, Polly Murphy (Maika Monroe), into her residence, solely to find she is just not the particular person she claims to be.”
If you happen to’ve seen Hanson’s movie or are in any respect conversant in its idea, you recognize that the nanny isn’t our sympathetic heroine right here. She’s the one doing the rocking (of every kind! bodily, mentally, and emotionally!) and upending the lives of a seemingly good and regular suburban household. What a scrumptious twist for Monroe.
The remake, directed by “Huesera: The Bone Lady” filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera will arrive on Hulu simply in time for Halloween. It additionally stars Raúl Castillo, Martin Starr, Mileiah Vega, Riki Lindhome, and Shannon Cochran, and is written by Micah Bloomberg primarily based on a screenplay by Amanda Silver. The producers are Michael Schaefer, Mike LaRocca, and Ted Subject, and the manager producers are Michael Napoliello, Maria Frisk, and Seth William Meier.
“The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” will begin streaming on Hulu on Wednesday, October 22. Try the movie’s first trailer under.