The domestic thriller was a cinematic staple of the late 1980s and early ‘90s – back then, audiences couldn’t get enough of seeing horror enter the household. There was the original ‘obsessed woman’ classic, 1987’s Fatal Attraction ; the ‘roommate from hell’ scenario in Single White Female – and, of course, 1992’s The Hand That Rocks The Cradle , written by Amanda Silver and directed by Curtis Hanson. An unsettling gem of a film that saw a woman pose as a nanny for a family in the aftermath of her husband dying by suicide, it was a success at the box-office and the home rental market, blending psychological suspense and home-invasion terror to become a staple of the genre.

Now, it’s getting the remake treatment — actually, scratch that, because, as director Michelle Garza

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