The Monitor

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Summaries

After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare she'd recently escaped.

After escaping her abusive husband, Anna and her 8-year-old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them, she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times, but strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. As she listens to the sounds of what she believes is another child being murdered, she fears it is her own. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna needs to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.—Elizabeth Obermeier, Marketing Manager

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Keywords
  • female protagonist
  • death
  • suicide
  • delusion
  • baby monitor
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Horror
Release date Oct 6, 2011
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Germany Norway Sweden
Official sites Official site Official site
Language English Norwegian Swedish
Filming locations Germany
Production companies Pandora Filmproduktion 4 1/2 Film BOB Film

Box office

Budget $25000000
Gross worldwide $1417397

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 36m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
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Synopsis

Single mother Anna moves with her 8 year old son to a big flat with secret address outside Oslo to get away from her violent husband. Anna is scared stiff that they will be found, and is under heavy watch by a couple of child care workers. She get's the idea of buying a baby call so that her son doesn't have to sleep in her bed, only to find that the babycall picks up another troubled child somewhere in the flat. She meets shopkeeper Helge again when she complains about the baby call, and finds comfort in this shy guy which obviously also has a troubled past.

Anna is really on the edge, and maybe her imagination is playing her as well!?We follow Anna as she tries to hide out in her new flat, taking small steps into society only to feel threaten by anything that shows up onher doorstep. Is she imagining that someone is hurting a child somewhere in the big flat?

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