Great Film overall

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

A first time mother gets delusional over baby.This feature had the feel of a MOW (movie of the week). Though I doubt Lifetime would run it up the flagpole. Sure, it had atmosphere at times and decent lighting, but twenty minutes could have easily been hacked off the ninety-five minute run time.As for the movie, this is writer/director Issac Webb's first feature. Yet, how this slow moving beast of confusion and nothingness got greenlit and made it to the screen is its own mystery. Now, I don't need everything tied up neatly in a bow, after all, I'm a big David Lynch fan, but give me some gateway to possible answers for some of the odd occurrences. Please. Worst still were the characters: Although Elizabeth Shue did her best as whiny mother, Laura, she was simply annoying. In short order, any semblance of compassion by the audience for this pouty trainwreck of a woman was clearly destroyed by the beginning of act two. The workaholic husband, doing his damnedest to impress his bosses – how droll – also sported his own poutiness in the face of actor Steven Mackinosh (though he somehow manages to secure an entire month off when his wife truly, truly needs help with baby Jessica for real this time). And of course, we had the creepy old babysitter, who… whatever. It's as if Webb plucked his characters off the shelf at your local and utterly decrepit K-Mart.Since there was little happening, especially with a group full of solemn and cardboard characters, the climax was extremely clear from the beginning and leaves the audience without any shock and awe – just a yawn. And a big one at that. In fact, suspense was annihilated early on when it became blatantly obvious this was one of those "Is it in her mind?" movies.Regardless, Webb and the rest did not bring anything new or palpable to the genre with this drek. Give a half-star to the Camera and Electrical Department for making this drek look good on some level.

I voted 10 for this movie. Iam not a film maker, I am a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, and I can tell that this is an excellent movie to explain a certain type of psychopathology and to teach as well. The character of Elsabeth Sue shows a very narcissistic and immature women who is not prepared to have a child. This situation generates a big anxiety crisis in Laura. Step by step the director is showing very carefully a change in Laura's conception of reality (despersonalization) until she finally turns delusional and psychotic, and kill her own baby!!!!! The diagnostic Post Partum Psychosis. I think that, to really appreciate this film is necessary to know a little bit of pregnancy complications, and mental health in general, this will permit the audience to understand what is going on this women.

I went into this movie with the notion that Elizabeth Shue is a great actress. And she has made a lot of great movies. But the reality is, not even a miracle could've saved this movie from disaster.The story is flat. It doesn't go anywhere. And it is entirely predictable. And on top of that, the scenes in the movie drag on-and-on. To the point that, it was a test of will for me to sit through the entire film.Even if I were to look at it as a low budget movie, which it is. I cannot find a single aspect of the movie that had any promise whatsoever.Bottom Line: If you must see this movie, then rent it. Because if you purchase this movie, I can almost guarantee that you will feel ripped off!!!

When the dancer Laura (Elizabeth Shue) feels sick after a presentation, she finds that she is pregnant. Her husband and successful executive Steven (Steven Mackintosh) decides to buy a huge house in the suburb to raise their baby daughter Jessica in an adequate environment. Laura changes her lifestyle, feels nervous alone with the rats in the house and accidentally kills their dog with poison. Later Steven hires Mrs. Kasperian (Kathleen Chalfant) to help Laura in the housework and with the baby, but Laura believes the old woman wishes to harm Jessica using witchcraft. Laura has a breakdown, and when she recovers, her mother moves to her house to help her with the baby. During the night, Laura decides to get rid off a doll she found in the house changing their lives forever."First Born" is a weird and disturbing movie, and talking to some friends of mine I noted that this is the type of film extremely unpleasant for women. The beautiful Elizabeth Shue is thinner and has a good performance, but her character is not well developed, therefore it is not possible to know whether she is a mother with postpartum psychosis or simply a mad woman. I liked this film, but I do not dare to recommend it especially for potential mothers. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Filha das Sombras" ("Daughter of the Darkness")