Spoonful of Sugar (2023)
This is a hilarious black comedy. It has everything virtually apart from zombies - a creepy babysitter, a demonic child, a lunatic mother and a selfish, perverse father, child abuse, LSD, necromania, multiple murders, dead rabbits ... So much the script writers are clearly struggling to keep all the different plot elements moving in sync, but they just about pull it off. We meet Millicent attending at job interview as a baby sitter for a very high needs child. Millie presents as 21-year-old, and says she is studying medicine. She quickly forms a rapport with the boy, Johnny. Parents, Jacob and Rebecca, hire her. Turns out Millie isn't quite what she seems - addiction to LSD being just one 'problematic' aspect. She casually disregards Becca's rules about child care - which are many - and seems not unresponsive as Jacob starts making advances on her. And there is more, so much more, about her. Okay, so she's a psycho. That isn't any big reveal. I...