The Caregiver (2023)
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Director: Ariel Luque
Stars: Clara Kovacic, Nikola Kent, Virginia Lombardo, Victoria Aristegui, Lis Fernandez
Plot: Emma takes a job as a caregiver for a senile old woman. Strange things start happening in the house. What Emma doesn’t know is that the house hides a terrifying secret.
* * *
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[GASPS]
[PANTING]
[SINISTER STING]
EMMA: Hi Mom.
I’m fine.
I’m not going back there, Mom.
I’m not going back.
No.
Not this time.
I won’t.
He’s not my father!
He’s a fucking pig!
[SIGHS]
Mom.
Mom, I have to go.
I have an interview.
Sorry.
I’ll call you back.
[EERIE PIANO MUSIC]
[PHONE RINGING]
Okay.
Very well.
Mr. Belov is waiting for you.
Thank you.
ALEXANDER: And do you have any experience
with senile patients?
Yes, I have.
I took care of my grandmother three years
right before she died.
Dasha is a very sweet woman.
Well, she was.
But her illness is already very advanced.
She rarely connects with reality
and when she does, sometimes she gets violent
with the nurses and even me.
Ever since my sister Anna died,
her illness got progressively worse in a very short time.
It’s ok, I know how to handle that kind
of situation.
And can she walk?
Yes, but slowly and with help.
Dasha was born in the Soviet Union
but grew up here in New York.
My grandparents were doctors,
they came to United States when she was very young.
Is that your baby?
No.
Do you have any children, family?
No, I… I don’t.
I live alone, I just arrived to the city.
Hm.
Could you start tonight?
Wait. What? [CHUCKLES]
Yes, yes. I could!
Great.
Karen, the nurse who was taking care of her, stopped coming in
and Dasha can’t stay another night
in that huge house.
Okay.
[CHUCKLES]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SOFT KNOCKING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
Hello Mrs. Belov.
My name is Emma. I was hired by your son to take of you.
I’m going to be your new nurse.
Do you need something?
Do you need to go to the bathroom?
Okay.
Why don’t we lay you down?
That’s it.
And let me put your feet here.
I’ll cover you up.
I’m gonna take care of you.
Okay?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[WARDROBE SQUEAKS]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[CREAKING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Mrs. Belov?
[DOOR CREAKS]
[EERIE STING]
My sweet Anna.
You came to visit me.
I’m not Anna, Mrs. Belov.
My name is Emma. I’m your nurse.
Remember?
No!
You are not my daughter.
She died.
Who are you?
I’m Emma. I’m your nurse.
Your son Alexander hired me. Remember?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC ON TV]
Wouldn’t you like to go and take a walk?
It’s nice outside.
We can go and get some fresh air.
What are these marks, Mrs. Belov?
Did someone do this to you?
Did your old nurse did this to you?
No!
No!
No, no, no, I need to get out!
Stay calm, please, stay calm.
No!
Stay calm, it’s okay.
No!
It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay.
It’s me. It’s ok.
No.
Stay calm. Stay calm.
No.
[EERIE STING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
Open.
Are you okay, Mrs. Belov?
I want you to know that you can trust me.
If something is happening or someone is hurting you.
You can trust me.
We’re gonna go to sleep now. Rest.
Thank you my sweet Anna.
Night.
[DOOR CREAKS]
[SIGHS]
[LULLABY MUSIC]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[LULLABY STOPS]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD, THUD]
[MUTTERING]
Mrs. Belov?
Is that you?
[TENSE MUSIC]
MRS. BELOV: Here child, enter.
[MUTTERING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[MUTTERING CONTINUES]
Mrs. Belov?
[MUTTERING CONTINUES]
Mrs. Belov?
[YELLS]
Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. It’s me, Emma.
Remember? Emma, your nurse.
Let’s go back to sleep, okay?
Let’s go back to sleep.
[TENSE STING]
[THUDDING]
Mrs. Belov!
Stop! Stop! Please, stop.
Stop! Stop!
[PANTING]
You’re hurting yourself. Don’t!
Go to sleep. Go to sleep.
Now we’re going to sleep
and tomorrow we going to do something nice, okay?
[SINISTER MUSIC]
Mrs. Belov, please let go.
You’re hurting me.
Mrs. Belov, please let go.
Mrs. Belov!
Go to sleep.
[GENTLE FOOTSTEPS]
Mrs. Belov?
I’m taking a bath right now. Do you need something?
[SIGHS] Fucking creepy.
[THUDDING]
[GASPS]
[SIGHS]
Mrs. Belov.
I told you, you’re going to hurt yourself!
[DOOR CREAKS]
[THUD]
[THUD, THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD, THUD]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[LOUD THUD]
[GASPS]
[SOFT RADIO STATIC]
[SIGHS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC STING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[SIGHS]
[HEAVES]
[PANTING]
[SINISTER STING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Mrs. Belov?
Mrs. Belov?
Mrs. Belov?
[DOOR CREAKS]
[LULLABY MUSIC]
Mrs. Belov?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC STING]
[YELLS]
[PANTING]
What the fuck did you do to me?!
[HEARTBEAT POUNDS]
[THUD]
[FLOORBOARDS CREAK]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
What are you doing?
Shh.
I’ll take care of you, darling. Don’t worry.
No. No.
No, please.
No. No. Please.
[SQUEALS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
MRS. BELOV: Shh.
Stay quiet.
Help!
Shh.
You’re going to make Dasha mad.
She really likes you.
Please, let me go. I won’t tell anyone, please.
Don’t worry, she’ll take care of you.
She’s being taken care of pregnant women all her life.
[SINISTER MUSIC]
I’m not pregnant.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
What did you do to me?
I performed artificial insemination of you
when you were sleeping.
Why?
In a few days, we’ll do a pregnancy test to be sure.
Fuck you! Fucking bitch!
Fuck you!
[STRUGGLING]
[SCREAMS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKS]
She’s going to take care of both of you
if you do everything she says.
[SCREAMS]
[GRUNTS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[CHOKING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[PANTING]
She’s escaping!
[SCREAMS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[HANDLE RATTLES]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[MRS. BELOV YELLING]
[DOOR BANGING]
[DOOR BANGING]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
MRS. BELOV: When you come out, You will regret it.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[THUD, THUD]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[EERIE WHISPERING]
[THUD]
[THUD]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[BREATHING INTENSIFIES]
[SINISTER STING]
[SINISTER STING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PHONE RINGING]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[RINGING CONTINUES]
[DOOR CREAKS SOFTLY]
MRS. BELOV: Who is it?
You have to come. This bitch killed Alexander!
I need your help!
[CRYING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[DOOR HANDLE RATTLES]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[PHONE SWITCH HOOK CLICKS]
[SINISTER STING]
MRS. BELOV: I knew you were coming down.
[YELLS]
[SCREAMS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[PANTING]
[KNIFE SHINGS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[SOBS]
MRS. BELOV: Do you like your baby’s room?
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[BREATHING INTENSIFIES]
[SCREAMS]
Help!
Help!
Help!
[WEEPING]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
No.
I gotta get the fuck out of this house.
[FLOORBOARD SCRAPES]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[GRUNTS]
[GLASS SMASHES]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[SCREAMING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
MAN ON RADIO: “From the Berlin wall take a look at them”,
“they’ve been there since last night.
“They are here in the thousands.
“They are here in the tens of thousands.
“Occasionally they shout, they almost beg the wall must go.”
“Thousands and thousands of West Germans”
“come to make the point that the wall has suddenly…”
Pieces of shit!
“Something as you can see almost to party on”
[FOOTSTEPS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GASPS]
[SOBBING]
Who’s there?
[SOBBING CONTINUES]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
It’s okay. It’s okay.
I’m not going to hurt you.
Please, help me.
Please, help me.
Okay. What’s your name? What’s your name?
Karen.
Okay. We’re going to get out of here, okay?
Stay with me.
[SOBBING]
Wait. Wait. Wait. Keys.
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[FOOTSTEPS]
Shh.
No. No.
[SOBS SOFTLY]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
No.
Today is the day.
Today you’ll give birth.
But it will be quick and painless.
No, please. Please! Please!
Don’t!
No, please. Please. Please!
Now you’re going to sleep…
and when you wake up, everything will be over.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SCREAMS]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[METAL CLANKS]
[SOBBING]
Where are the fucking keys?
Listen!
I’m gonna go upstairs and get the keys, okay?
No. No. Don’t leave me.
Stay!
Don’t leave me, don’t leave me, please, don’t leave me.
I’m coming back. I’m not gonna leave you.
Please!
[SOBBING]
They’re gonna kill me and take my baby! Please!
[PANTING]
[PHONE SWITCH HOOK CLICKS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[KAREN PANICKING]
KAREN: She’s coming upstairs! She’s coming up!
She’s coming up!
[KAREN YELLS]
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKS]
MRS. BELOV: Under the bed
was my favorite hiding place when I was a little girl.
My father was a very strict man.
I was afraid of him.
He would sit on my bed and bang his boots five times.
I had five times to get out.
Otherwise the punishment will be worse.
[GUN BANGS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
One.
[GUN BANGS]
Two.
Three.
[GUN BANGS]
Four.
[GUN BANGS]
Wait! Wait! Wait!
Wait! Wait! Wait!
[HEAVY BREATHING]
Wait.
Now, you’re going to help me carry
your new friend up from the basement.
Okay. Okay.
Walk!
What are you gonna do with us?
[SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
KAREN: The baby’s coming. Please!
Go!
Please!
The baby’s coming, please.
MRS. BELOV: Let her go.
Wait!
Fuck.
KAREN: Come on! Come on!
MRS. BELOV: Help her up the stairs.
Wait!
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[GROANING]
Go!
KAREN: It hurts!
It hurts so much!
MRS. BELOV: To the second floor!
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
No! It hurts!
Please!
No! No!
I can’t! I can’t, please! Please!
It’s coming.
MRS. BELOV: Go upstairs.
The baby is not going to be born here on the floor.
[SOBBING]
You can do it! Okay?
You can do this. We’re almost there.
Please!
Grab onto me. Grab onto me!
Please!
Grab onto me, you can do it!
Come on! We’re almost there!
[KAREN SCREAMING]
EMMA: Come on!
MRS. BELOV: Go to the bathroom.
You have to help her!
Go to the bathroom!
No! No! No!
It’s okay. It’s okay.
[SOBBING]
Please! Please, no!
Please!
No!
[SCREAMING]
Open the medicine cabinet.
Take out the seal.
Put on your wrist.
Tie them.
Go!
[KAREN SCREAMING]
[STRUGGLING]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[KAREN SCREAMING AND SOBBING]
[STRUGGLING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[BABY CRYING]
Where’s Karen?
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[MRS. BELOV HUMMING]
MRS. BELOV: ♪ Bayushki-bayu ♪
♪ Bayushki-bayu ♪
[DOORBELL RINGS]
Help!
Help!
[STRUGGLING]
Help! Help!
Help, please!
Please, help!
Shut your mouth or I’ll kill you.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[MAN SPEAKS RUSSIAN]
Please help! I’m here.
I’m here!
Please! Please, help!
Help me, please! Please!
[GUNSHOT]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
She’s mine.
[FOOTSTEPS]
MRS. BELOV: Go!
Stop there.
Please, let me go.
Shut up!
Lay down and chain yourself.
Go!
[TENSE MUSIC]
You won’t kill me.
You don’t kill babies.
You take care of them.
As if they were your own.
Because they are your own, aren’t they?
You won’t kill me. Not until this baby is born.
I can use any girl.
Don’t make me shoot you.
[SCREAMS]
[GLASS SHATTERS]
No!
[MRS. BELOV SCREAMS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Now I’m gonna make sure I’m the last one,
you crazy old bitch!
ANNA: Mom?
Where are you?
Mom?
Where are you?
Mom?
Oh my god!
Don’t fucking move!
Where is my mother?
I’m sorry for what you went through.
But I had nothing to do with it.
Where is my mother?
Down the basement.
Mom!
Give me the keys.
She needs help!
Give me the fucking keys.
Now!
Now you’re gonna stay here until the police comes.
[YELLS]
[GRUNTING]
[CHOKING]
[STRUGGLING]
[SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
[GUNSHOT]
[EERIE PIANO MUSIC]
[BABY CRYING]
Shh, shh.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
Help!
[WEEPING]
[NEWS JINGLE]
Today marks nine months since the famous
and macabre case of The Caregiver.
Over last ten years, more than ten girls were killed
due to baby trafficking.
In this house of horror, young girls were kidnaped,
forced to get pregnant and were cared for
during nine months by the Russian doctor,
Dasha Belov.
Emma Hudson was her last victim,
yet managed to escape while saving one of the babies.
When the FBI entered the house they only found four bodies.
Those of her children Anna and Alexander, a Russian man,
and the body of young Karen Emerson.
However, doctor Belov’s body was not found inside the house.
The FBI still searching for The Caregiver,
who is still missing.
[RAIN, THUNDER]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[FLOORBOARD CREAKS]
[GASPS]
[PANTING]
[TELEVISION PLAYS SOFTLY IN BACKGROUND]
[WATER POURS]
[GLASS THUDS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Who’s there?
I knew you would come.
I knew you wouldn’t abandon your grandson.
He’s the only one you’ve got
now that your son’s dead.
Surely you didn’t know it was a boy.
Did you really think I would have it?
Did you really think I would have the child
of someone as disgusting and repulsive as your son?
[SINISTER MUSIC]
It would make me sick just thinking about the idea
of giving birth to something with your blood.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[SCREAMING]
[GUNSHOT]
[GUNSHOT]
[HUMMING]
[POLICE SIRENS]
[SOMBER PIANO MUSIC]
