Spoonful of Sugar

This is an interesting film with some great performances that ultimately doesn't quite work. It's as if there are a few too many ideas going on and something got left on the cutting room floor. It also doesn't help that characters aren't clearly drawn, should you be rooting for them or hating them ? The twist was a nice touch but in the end it doesn't save the film. Someone dropped the ball, either the writer, director or both, but the film doesn't quite gel into something I would watch again. For the performances though, the strangeness of it all and the fact that it uses a rare case of a male as an object of desire, makes this worth a one time watch.

One of Shudder's low-budget horror stories. It is a slow-burning film. It takes its time to develop the characters. It's not a horror-action movie.

At the forefront of the story is a young couple who's struggling to take care of their only young son who is severely autistic. Johnny (Danillo Crovetti) throws violent tantrums and is sometimes hard to contain. Dealing with Johnny's issues puts a great strain on the couple's relationship and they look numb on the outside as well as inside.

After losing the last nanny, they hire Millicent (Morgan Taylor) without doing a background check. Millicent is a cookie herself with a whole sort of psychological issues. She perfectly plays the role of someone who has been abused and has been in and out of foster homes throughout her life.

When Millicent meets Johnny, an immediate rapport is established between them. Millicent first time feels a sense of family, and, Johnny first time feels safe. Soon after, Millicent quits her prescription LSD drops for feeling much better and gets the bright idea of using her LSD drops on Johnny's foods and medicine. What could go wrong?

It is not an exciting movie but it is a good story, good direction, and good acting. The script is good. If you don't like slow-cooking stories, it might not be your cup of tea.

Spoonful of Sugar (2022) is a film that was recently added to Shudder. The storyline follows a young lady who takes medication to manage a condition that causes her to see things and lose her mind. Her parents abandoned her and she has been in and out of foster homes and currently lives with a creep who can't wait until she turns 18. Meanwhile, she studies at a college and is writing a thesis on allergies and that they are as much in your mind as reality. To make ends meet she picks up a job babysitting an eccentric young man who has extreme allergies, doesn't talk and is abusive towards his parents. As she babysits the young man he makes tremendous progress, the mom gets jealous and the young lady starts falling in love with the dad. This causes a tidal wave of events at the house that is bound to cause an explosive conclusion.

This movie is directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Fixation) and stars Morgan Saylor (White Girl), Kat Foster (Jean-Claude Van Johnson), Myko Olivier (Glee), Danilo Crovetti (Hunters) and Laura Coover (Agent Carter).

This movie is fantastic. The storyline is very clever with entertaining twists and turns. The main character is perfectly delivered, awkward, unpredictable and fascinating all at the same time. Her hallucinations are very well presented. The cinematography in this movie is very good and helped create intensity that is felt throughout the movie. The adopted dad is crazy creepy and made me feel icky every scene he is in. Honestly, the acting and dialogue of every character feels authentic and this had a 'May' feel to it in a lot of ways. There's a rabbit 🐇 scene that's wild and very well done. The storyline for this keeps you glued to the screen until the very end; and when the conclusion arrives, you're hit by a truck...then backed over. I adored how this film concludes.

Overall, this is a magnificent addition to the horror genre that's absolutely worth your time. I would score this an 8-8.5/10 and strongly recommend it.

Considering the rather low ratings it got on here I wasn't expecting too much from this horror movie but I'm glad I gave it a shot because it was pleasant to follow. Horror movies will never please everybody, and even though I wouldn't class this one as hardcore horror, it was an entertaining movie. It's mild horror with a couple of bloody scenes, creepy for sure and that was mostly due to the performance of Morgan Saylor. She has good facial expressions to make it creepy, and of course her acting talent that was more than decent. The story was certainly not bad, just simple but effective, and easy to follow.

If you like intelligent plots with a touch of bizarre and smart solutions, this is the film. Amazing acting, a sober direction and dark shades of obscure references anchored under the human psiqué (pay attention to 'The Shining' nod in the door sequence). Above all, no trace of the left-wing clichés that, nowadays, pollutes almost every script or the politically correct crap made in Hollywood. Just a tight screenplay that surprises and conquers the moviegoer with a slight touch of gore. The soundtrack also contributes to the result, along with LSD references that makes it more and more insteresting. A potential cult for the right audience.