The Monitor

The Monitor (Babycall, 2011) is a Norwegian psychological thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Anna and her eight-year-old son flee an abusive past and disappear into a vast apartment block on the edge of Oslo.

So she can hear the boy at night, Anna buys a baby monitor — and the device starts picking up a strange child screaming somewhere nearby. Is a real threat closing in, or has her exhausted mind stopped telling fear from fact? Noomi Rapace plays Anna frayed to the breaking point, with Kristoffer Joner as the one person she dares to trust. Director Pål Sletaune keeps you as unsure as his heroine, steering closer to a bleak drama about trauma and a mother's guilt than to a conventional horror film. The ending rewrites everything you thought you saw. Stream The Monitor (2011) online on iFILM.