Sorry, this movie sucks

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I was told I had to watch this film. 'It's really scary, you gotta see it!' So I did. Well, I watched half of it. The rest I couldn't stomach. So I switched off. It's needlessly controversial and basically shows a young crazy mother murdering her kids. She kills her baby, then tracks the others down and brutally murders them. All but one I'm told.And that's it. No real plot. No character depth. Just an excuse to draw the crowds in with a child murder movie. Quite frankly I found it offensive and an insult to my intelligence.Lord knows what people are thinking on here who are claiming this is some sort of masterpiece. They either need to get a life, see better movies, or go see a shrink.There is nothing likable about this film, not in a spooky scary horror way. It's devoid of purpose other than to shock. If you like seeing young kids being killed, then watch it. I feel sorry for you, as you obviously need help.The upshot is she kills three of her kids but instead of being sent away, she is allowed home to live back with her husband and her remaining child. The movie is crazy but the ending is so absurd it's offensive too.I'm also prepared for a lot of 'this review was not useful' thumbs down. Apparently it's the freaks who 'enjoyed' this film that are responsible.Utter garbage. Just 1/10.

A long haul trucker hits the road just as his wife is in the throes of a psychotic break due to postpartum depression. Now left alone with their mother, the oldest son must attempt to protect his three siblings and escape their isolated farmhouse.What a discovery! It's hard to believe that I hadn't heard of Baby Blues before renting it on a whim last October. This is a disturbing film with some intense imagery. The first 30 minutes are especially rattling, as we are treated to an all too realistic portrait of a mental breakdown. One particularly effective scene sees the mother sitting in a daze as she imagines heinous sounds emanating from the baby monitor in place of her baby's actual crying. The film eventually turns more towards a slasher type scenario, only with kids as the victims instead of the typical teenagers. Not to say that it gets less disturbing, it actually doesn't. The kills get under your skin, especially the first one we're witness to involving the sharp point of a mirror.Colleen Porch is fantastic as the mother, never taking things over the top, something that easily could have happened. The kids are good too, all perfectly believable as normal children in a terrible situation that they don't fully understand. There's a scene where the mother attempts to drown her daughter in the bathtub, the whole thing made more effective by the reaction of the girl's brother in the background, a reaction that rang very true to me.This isn't a film for everyone. It is often hard to watch due to the unnerving nature of what unfolds on the screen. For others like myself who prefer to feel something when watching a horror film, this is one that you won't want to miss. It's exceptionally well done.

Postpartum psychosis is a mental illness,which involves the rapid onset of psychotic symptoms in a woman following childbirth.Symptoms of postpartum psychosis can include feelings of being ordered by God to harm oneself or the children,seeing or hearing things that others don't,out of control feelings and thoughts,random or uncontrollable anxiety attacks or memory lapses.Andrea Yates methodically drowned her 5 children in a bathtub in her Texas house in June 2001.She suffered from post-partum psychosis.In "Baby Blues" the mother is trying to kill her four children.After having a complete psychotic breakdown she smothers the baby and stabs to death two older children.Only her oldest son named Jimmy manages to survive.Colleen Porch is perfectly believable as a murderous mommy with hatchet as are the child actors.The scenes of violence and child murder are mostly off-screen,but still pack one hell of a punch.8 out of 10.

Lars E. Jacobson wrote this movie and the box claims it is based on a true story. Which true story its based on or inspired by is not relevant. What is relevant is that Lars E. Jacobson understands what makes a movie horrifying. The plot to this movie is pretty straightforward. A woman, known only as Mom, convincingly portrayed by Colleen Porch, gives birth to her baby boy and begins a descent into madness and psychosis created by the all too common condition, post-partum depression. She begins to see things in drawings made by the children. She believes her husband, an over-the-road trucker who is gone frequently, is cheating on her. And of course, she begins to kill her children, one by one. OK.. enough said about the plot because too much more would spoil this movie if you haven't seen it. And from what I can tell this film isn't trying to make any sort of social statement about post-partum depression. But, many of us know the story of Andrea Yates and mothers like her that simply snapped and killed all of their children in a post-partum depression induced psychosis. Thus this story is all too real and thus all too disturbing.My wife and I cringed and turned out heads throughout this movie. But not because it is terribly gory or bloody, we love gore and blood. We turned our heads, much as a young child covers his eyes when the monster comes up, to avoid the truly scary parts of this film -- the mother in her madness killing her children. My wife actually pulled our 3 year old son up on to her lap and held him as this woman brutally murdered these children. The film was simply brutal and horrifying. Rarely does a film kill young children, but this one does it, does it in a horrifying and realistic manner, and does it in front of other young children.The boy who plays the 10 year old son, Jimmy, who does everything he can to protect his siblings from the mother's rage is the actor Ridge Canipe. He is phenomenal. I can't imagine this film won't have a lasting effect on his psyche. The Mom is so believably portrayed by Colleen Porch that I'm quite sure when I see her in other movies I'll immediately have flashbacks to the terror of this film. The cinematography is phenomenal. The directors (Lars Jacobson and Amadreep Kaleka) create many very scary scenes and shots throughout the film. For example, there is one scene where Jimmy is hiding in the chicken coop and his mother, on her knees, looks into the chicken coop through the small entrance used by the chickens, and the look on her face and its framing in the doorway was most reminiscent of the classic Jack shot from Kubrick's THE SHINING.Although I strongly recommend everyone watch this movie, we will likely never watch this movie again. The movie was simply too psychologically disturbing for the loving parents of three children to endure once more. This horror is real. There is no slasher, there is no zombie, there is no vampire nor werewolf, that is as real as Mom is in BABY BLUES.As I don't really have a regular rating system that I use to give a film 5 out of 5 stars or whatever, I'll just say whatever rating system you want to use I give it all of them .. 5/5 stars, 10/10 skulls, 5/5 Holy Craps, whatever the case may be. The movie has it all, a great story, great acting, great cinematography, a perfect balance of blood and gore in its kill scenes, and great directing.