A pulp fiction blockbuster powerhouse as a novel by   Freida McFadden  having sold six million copies. It would be an impossibility to convert that into a two hour film, so I approached it as  a stand alone entity

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It worked. Spooky ( if knowingly so), gruesome ( gratuitously), pacy, slick and taut it is one of the best modern horror/chillers that I have seen, albeit a predictable formulaic one.

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Tamanda Seyfried, is chillingly unhinged  as  perfect housewife Nina Winchester, whose perfection does not last long.

Sydney Sweeney stars as Millie Calloway, a young woman with a troubled past who takes a live-in housekeeping job out of necessity with secrets of her own. She plays younger than her age in a provocative Jeffrey Epstein sort of way as prey to , Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). The finale is frenetic and compelling as Millie takes control with eroticism never far away, deftly handled by Director Paul Feig, The book is different from the film but the latter has been recrafted well