The Guardian (1990)
Directed by William Friedkin
Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be...
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What critics compared The Guardian to
The Boy Next Door is behind the times, a relic of an era where the runaway, zeitgeist-capturing success of Fatal Attraction created an entire subgenre of paranoid thrillers about how the greatest threat to a family’s survival was someone intimately close: a nanny (The Hand That Rocks The Cradle), a cop (Unlawful Entry), or, in the case of William Friedkin’s The Guardian, a sexy nanny who’s also a vengeful wood nymph.
While the poster for The Witch may conjure up memories of William Friedkin’s The Guardian , this owes nothing to that film’s hokey horrors.Eggers has cited Kubrick’s The Shining as influential, alongside Benjamin Christensen’s silent classic Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages and Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers .
Then he hit a slump in the 1980s and 1990s with a string of duds — Jade, The Hunted, Rules of Engagement and most infamously The Guardian, the one about the tree that ate babies (no, seriously).
Look at his 1990 horror film The Guardian (I dare you).