Landis creeped me out


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here is a crazy guy who didn't just take two children but stalked the poor babysitter. What is worse he stalks her again five years later by moving things around her apartment, sort of gaslighting her. The first part of the film when Julia was babysitting was enough to scare me for the rest of my life. I still wonder how he got the children out of the house.

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*more spoilers below*


I figure he snuck in and stuck them with a hypodermic of some kind, sedating them.

I just wish in the film the children had been found alive. That bothered me a lot!


"Know that when you look into the abyss.....the abyss also looks into you."

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That's what scared me most in this movie- the fact that he stalked Julia, years later. He moved things around, left the window open...little things to torment her. Like Jill said, when something like that happens to you, you know where everything is in your house. You know how many books you have because everything has its place- and you'd notice if it was even slightly out of place.

He actually had more time than most people think to get the kids out of the house. After the last time Julia checks on the children, you don't see them again. During that time, he could have easily sneaked upstairs and grabbed the children. He probably gave them something to sedate them, as fiatlux-1 said. Otherwise, Julia might have heard them cry or scream.

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he is legit messed up

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