‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ still carries scares in 2025, with a twisted nanny and an auteur director

What’s scary is scary. Horror is a universal genre that feeds on darkness, silence, and creaks on the floorboards, on a rich cultural heritage and on each person’s subconscious to provoke its ultimate goal: the scream, the jump. And if in 1992, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, starring Rebecca de Mornay’s terrifying nanny Peyton, managed to make even Herod’s hair stand on end, a similar story would surely work now, 33 years later. With that premise, Disney thought, why not do it again?

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