Lullaby (2022) Hey what's up guys? Today I'll show
you a supernatural horror film: "Lullaby"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a mother and her baby, Zach. she is trying to put her baby to sleep. Meanwhile,
the husband savagely smashes every mirror in the house with a hammer.
Suddenly, what appears to be a baby monster, crawls over Zach's cradle.
The man breaks one last mirror, but a demonic face attacks him, and we can clearly see how a piece of
glass cuts his throat open, leading to his death. The scared mother returns to Zach's cradle, but
finds his corpse gently lying on the mattress. The scene changes, and we find a different couple
arriving at a flat. There's a knock on the door, so the husband, whose name's John,
opens it. then The delivery guy gives John a couple of boxes, containing different toys,
books, clothes, and other belongings. These objects were sent by John's mother-in-law.
Rachel, John's wife, says that these objects belonged to her sister. John feels uncomfortable,
because those toys belonged to a dead baby; but he says that doesn't mean it will happen
the same to them. There we can conclude that the couple we found at the beginning of the movie,
was Rachel's sister and her husband, and the baby who died was her nephew.
later, Rachel finds a peculiar hardcover book, with an enigmatic drawing of a woman. She opens
it, and finds a passage written in Hebrew. The entire book is written in that language,
and contains even more drawings. On the very last page, there is a musical sheet printed on. Rachel
asks her husband to read the passages, so John takes a Hebrew dictionary to properly pronounce
the words. The couple finds out the passages are in fact the lyrics of a religious lullaby;
and Rachel vaguely tries to sign the melody by reading the music pentagram.
Later, the couple takes Eli, their baby, and puts him to sleep. But Eli awakens and cries,
letting us know that raising an annoying child will be a hard task for this inexperienced couple.
Six months later, Rachel is still struggling to calm her baby down. John leaves for a painting
exhibition to exhibit one of his paintings, and Rachel stays at home to take care of Eli. Rachel
does her best to put Eli to sleep, but fails at every attempt. Finally, Rachel takes some
sheets from a box, and places the annoying baby in his cradle. She realizes she has dropped the
book with the lullaby song they read six months ago, so Rachel decides to give it a try. Rachel
sings the lullaby, which immediately relaxes Eli, and puts him to sleep in the act. However,
Rachel is completely unaware that on one of her mirrors, a long crack silently appears.
John returns home, and finds Rachel waiting for him with a glass of wine. Then she takes him to
bed to share some intimacy. Later that night, Rachel spots a decrepit old hag through the
baby camera. The old hag is staring at Eli, throwing the cradle's bar. Needless to say,
Rachel freaks out, and runs toward his son's room. She doesn't find anything,
and believes there's a problem with the camera. However, she notices there's something strange
in one of the mirrors. We can spot the reflection of the terrifying woman that appeared on camera;
but Rachel seems to be unaware of that fact. The following day, John takes a shower. Rachel
approaches him from behind to share an intimate moment. But all of a sudden,
the old demonic woman appears behind John, and murmurs in his ears, but not picking his smelly
ears. The old hag looks putrid, as if she was a living corpse. John freaks out, and throws
Rachel away from her, but not the old hag. Rachel gets mad, so she dresses and takes Eli for
a stroll. John tries to comfort himself with his parrot pet, and forget about the situation; but he
notices two cracks in one of the mirrors. Rachel reaches the store, and begins looking
for a brand-new baby camera. However, every camera screen on the counter starts flashing,
and the old hag's face appears again. On top of that, lights go out on the entire market,
and the only things we can see are the camera screens. Then through one of those cameras,
we see that Rachel comes across the demon woman. She screams, and the lights come back. She finds
out there is no demon woman at all, just an employee who seems as confused as Rachel.
Back at home, Rachel hears Eli's crying from his room. This is quite unnerving,
since Eli is resting on Rachel's shoulder, so it would be impossible for it to happen. In fear,
She trudges to the room, and finds what seems to be a baby moaning, kicking, and floundering under
a sheet. Despite her fear, Rachel abruptly takes the sheet off, and finds nothing, but a stuffed
toy. Behind her, the closet door opens itself, and a flash of lightning reveals the face of
the woman, hiding between the clothes. When John arrives home, he finds his wife
waiting for him in the reception room of the apartment complex. She tells him
there's an intruder at home, so John darts into the flat. There, he picks an iron bar
to defend himself and his family. He spots a gloomy figure moving through one of the halls,
so he goes after it. But all of a sudden, John feels something moving towards him from behind;
this sends chilling hormones down his spines; so he hits the air with the iron bar as hard as he
can, so as to stop the intruder. Unfortunately, the entity approaching him was just his parrot
pet. The hit was too strong, and John accidentally killed his pet, sending it to meet Jesus.
Later that night, Rachel confesses she's not feeling okay, and that she's having strange
visions of an "old hag witch" of some kind. John interrupts Rachel, and goes to the bedroom to
pick up the lullaby book. He points out one of the drawings depicting the same old hag. Rachel
recognizes her immediately, and John tells her that he saw the same hag in the shower in the
morning. The couple decides to throw the book into the trash can, and sleep with Eli that night.
Some hours later, while the family is resting, John hears Eli crying from a different room,
which is impossible since Eli is sleeping between John and Rachel. Nonetheless, John sleepwalks
outside the flat, following Eli's crying. He goes all the way down to the basement of the
building. There, he snaps out of his sleepwalking state, and realizes where he is. However, he can
still hear Eli's crying coming from one of the trash containers. He searches through the trash,
unaware that there is a ghoulish face hiding in the corner of the container. John finally finds
the book he threw some time before, and takes it back home. Then, he takes a look at it once more,
and notices eerie drawings of demonic babies, and decapitated baby heads on a field.
Meanwhile, Rachel is spending some time with Eli in the room. She sings a song for Eli; but then,
she gets distracted by a faint sound, and takes her eyes away from Eli. When she looks back,
she discovers Eli has disappeared in just the blink of an eye. Rachel gets inside the sheets,
and desperately crawls, looking for her child. It seems that the mattress is an
eternal maze. She finally finds Eli; but when she approaches him, she shockingly finds out it's the
corpse of a baby. This zombi opens his mouth, and scares Rachel away. Fortunately, when Rachel
escapes from the inside of the bed, she finds the real Eli under the sheets, safe and alive.
The couple decides to tackle the problem once and for all. so Rachel heads to a mental health
hospital to talk to her sister, telling her sister what has been happening recently with
Eli and the witch ghost. meanwhile, John takes Eli to church, and asks the church's Rabbi
whether she has information on exorcisms or not. surprisingly, Both the Rabbi and Rachel's sister
tell the same story to the protagonists. It turns out, the demonic entity that they are struggling
with, is Lilith, the first woman made by God, and Adam's first sex partner. When Lilith was
banished from the Garden of Eden, she began roaming the Earth full of beasts, thus giving
birth to hideous and repulsive creatures, who were half human and half monsters. However, when Lilith
realized her babies were imperfect, she decided to steal babies from human mothers, and make them her
own. When God discovered her atrocious acts, it sent her to the underworld for punishment.
The bad news is that Lilith created a lullaby song to be summoned by people, and successfully
kept stealing children for centuries. We also discover that Rachel's sister had
also approached the Rabbi with the same problem, but the preacher believed she was out of her
mind. Also, Rachel's sister says that her son Zach is still alive, because the corpse she
found was another baby, not Zach's corpse. John ends up with little to no tangible solutions;
but Rachel takes her sister home to help her against Lilith.
However, John is the one to reach the house first. There he finds out there's a leak in the bathroom.
So he leaves Eli on the floor to go and check the leak. But while John's struggling with the
bathroom's leak, a demonic baby appears slowly, flexing its two-headed figure. it throws a jar
to the floor, expecting Eli to hurt himself with the broken glass. Fortunately, Rachel arrives, and
saves Eli seconds before hurting his fingers. Rachel's sister covers every mirror in the house,
saying that breaking them is futile. Then, John receives a call from an unknown person, asking for
the book and to help him. John leaves and meets the strange caller at a morgue. There, the man
asks for the book. He and his partner immediately realize the book is from the middle period, from
the 15th century or below. The man also tells John that singing the song was just one of the three
parts of a ritual, to summon the demon Lilith. The second one was offering an animal as a sacrifice,
which John had already done when he killed his parrot by accident. The last part of the ritual is
making the baby bleed, which hasn't happened yet. So the mysterious man provides John with prayers,
and a chandelier with candles that must burn until dawn. He explains that Lilith
can't come to the sacred light. Finally, the man asks John why he converted to Judaism,
to which he replies he did it because he loved Rachel. So the man warns John to watch out,
because if his faith is not strong, the prayers may not work. the man also keeps the book for
himself, because it's a dangerous object. Back at the flat, Rachel is in the bathroom
washing her face. However, she listens to her sister singing the lullaby to summon Lilith. When
she approaches her, the sister confesses she's trying to summon Lilith, so she can face her,
and bring her son back. She also shows that she has pricked Eli in the hand with a needle;
and now that Eli has bled, the summoning ritual is finished; so Lilith is ready to take him.
John drives to his home as fast as he can, but Lilith grabs him from behind, trying to choke him.
John desperately stops the car, and runs away. Meanwhile, Rachel takes Eli away from her sister,
and the two start fighting; but a piece of furniture falls into Rachel's head, and she
loses consciousness. the sister sees Lilith taking Eli with her, and when Rachel recovers herself,
she finds out it's too late, and that Eli is not in his cradle anymore. She yells in pain,
but her sister drags her from behind, and takes her through the mirror to a dark dimension.
John arrives home, only to find a dead baby lying in Eli's cradle. Then he discovers Rachel
on the other side of the mirror, although he cannot hear what Rachel is saying.
Rachel cannot believe her eyes, when she finds out she's standing on an infinite
mountain of baby corpses, scattered one over the other. Then she's followed by a fiend-baby
that resembles a wolf, and the two-faced baby found before. Luckily, her sister rescues her,
and tells Rachel they are in Lilith's realm, and that if she wants to find her missing son,
she needs to sing the song once again. At home, John sets the candles on,
and looks for Lilith. She's faster than him, and takes the holy candles away from his hands.
So John starts reciting the holy words; but it seems that his faith is not too strong,
because every candle is put off by the old hag. In the end, John's faith gets stronger,
and the light comes back, exorcizing Lilith, and sending her back to her realm.
Rachel wanders through endless corridors until she finds a door. She breaks into a room, that's
completely the opposite of what she has seen: a calm and white area full of cradles with babies.
Those babies are the ones Lilith has stolen for centuries. Both Rachel and her sister look for
their sons, but the blood-chilling baby cries make them unable to find their babies. Rachel tries to
calm herself down, and concentrate a bit sharper. That way, she finally meets Eli, and takes him
with her. Nonetheless, she turns around and faces Lilith, who was right behind her. This Lilith,
however, is not a grotesque witch-like woman, but resembles a real person. Lilith steals Eli again,
and hits Rachel so hard that it sends her to the ground. Rachel's sister throws a piece of sharp
glass at Lilith's stomach, and saves Rachel. Fast as lightning, Rachel stands up. the sister gives
Eli to Rachel; then Rachel escapes from the baby's rooms, while the sister distracts the monster.
however, Lilith takes the sister by the neck, and sings her a lullaby, which makes her bleed,
and turns her into a horrendous creature too. Rachel wanders through the halls, and finds
nothing but mirrors that reflect other houses. Lilith's singing is so powerful that every mirror
shatters, trying to keep Rachel inside forever. Fortunately, Rachel finds the mirror back home,
so she rams it with all her might, and lands safely in John's arms. That is until Lilith's
hideous arm appears through a piece of broken glass. The couple shows her the sacred candles,
and says the prayers out loud, making the monster return to the underworld forever.
Lights come back, and Rachel realizes she's holding Zach, her sister's baby, which means
that Eli is still there in Lilith's realm. Lastly, we find John secretly buying the book
back from the strange man. afterward, He sits next to his wife, and tells her he has
the book. John sights for one last time, and wonders what they should do now.
The movie ends with the monstrous sister being trapped in the underworld, smiling and singing a
Lullaby song to Eli. this implies that she finds her companion from her son's replacement.
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