YMMV / The Guardian (1990)

• Complete Monster: Camilla Grandier may seem like a kindly British nanny, but she is really an evil tree spirit who can take human form. Camilla's M.O is to sign up with various baby sitting services, pretend to be a good caretaker for the infants she is hired to care for, but eventually steal them away. Camilla then sacrifices these babies to a demonic tree, destroying their bodies and trapping their souls within the tree. Camilla's latest intended victim is the Sterling family, and when the competition comes down to her and another woman for the nanny position, Camilla kills her and makes it look like a biking accident. When Ned Runcie, a friend of the Sterling family, follows Camilla into the woods to ask her for a date, he discovers her performing bizarre demonic rituals. To silence him, Camilla has her pet coyotes rip him apart. When the Sterling family discovers her true plans, they fire Camilla, at which point she tries to steal the baby away and murder the parents.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: According to actress Jenny Seagrove, she argued constantly with the producers about the movie involving a nanny who kidnaps kids. They replied that nobody would see the film. She then said that, after The Hand That Rocks the Cradle was released years later, she called up one of the producers and he said "Don't. Don't even talk about it, you were right."

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