Iconic ’90s Thriller Getting Reboot Starring Modern-Day Scream Queen
Actress Maika Monroe will headline a modern retelling of the 1992 thriller “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” originally starring Rebecca De Mornay. This film, which gained popularity during the late ’80s and early ’90s among domestic thrillers, revolved around a mentally unstable widow who tormented a couple. In the original story, De Mornay portrayed a woman whose obstetrician husband took his own life after being accused of abusing one of his patients. The emotional turmoil from his charges and subsequent death led to her having a miscarriage. After the miscarriage, she suffered a mental breakdown and sought vengeance on the patient and the husband.