Listen Carefully
dir. Ryan Barton-Grimley · 2024
The struggle to protect what we love reveals the depths of our fears and the lengths we will go to confront them.
Feature
Psychological Horror
Mood
Tense / Dark
Look
stark contrasts, claustrophobic framing, dimly lit domestic spaces
Structure
linear progression with escalating tension
Plot
When troubled assistant bank manager Andy McNeary's infant daughter goes missing, he must follow the instructions of a mysterious voice on the other end of a baby monitor to save her before she disappears forever.
Why watch
In "Listen Carefully," Ryan Barton-Grimley plunges viewers into a nightmarish reality where a father's frantic search for his missing child is dictated by a haunting voice from a baby monitor. This psychological horror film taps into primal fears of loss and surveillance, making every whisper echo with dread.
Cultural context
contemporary parental anxietiestechnology's role in family dynamicssocietal fears of surveillance