One night, Linda Pratman (Darlanne Fluegel) had her baby born in the hospital but at that same moment, an dangerous psychopath (Denise Crosby) had her baby in the same hospital in that night. Four years has passed, Linda's son Adam (Matthew Dupuis) might be autistic. Adam loves to draw but he finds himself fascinated by crime TV shows. At first, Linda noticed how strange her son is coming to be. While deadly accidents are happening in the house or near their house. Linda is starting to convinced that Adam might not be her son. While Adam might not be as innocent he seems to be.Directed by George Mihalka (Les Boys 4, La Florida, My Bloody Valentine) made an entertaining suspense-thriller with some amusing darkly funny moments. Fluegel and Dupuis are certainly good in the movie. M. Emmet Walsh appears in a small role as Linda's father. James Brolin is certainly in this movie for an paycheck as the candy-loving detective. Perphas what is notable for the movie, it is one of the earlier written scripts by Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Law Abiding Citizen, The Recruit). "The Child" does have some guilty pleasure moments and it is also worth an look. Original title of the film was "Relative Fear". (****/*****).

this was actually quite decent i must say the acting was not bad but it falls victim do to a few unlikable characters but other then that this was a well made sometimes suspenseful chiller although there is some poor dialog at times it didn't hurt it all that much either it had a pretty good twist ending that i didn't see coming.And check out the laughable death scene where there is marbles all over the stairs the detective slips and falls to his death pretty lame still i rather enjoyed this one the finale will is quite suspenseful Darlanne Fluegel is good as the caring mother she gives a good show and is very likable the rest of the cast was decent at best overall we have a watchable romp thats worth a rent you might be surprised like i was **1/2 out of 5

this was a pretty good movie..i was surfing channels and came across this..relative fear is a real creepy affair..especially the autistic adam that kid creeped the s**t out of me... the plot was good and so were the twists....but creepy adam stole the show ... so if you like thrillers with good twists then relative fear is for you... i give it 8/10 and will never look at 4 year old autistic kids the same again

I've watched this video several times and the suspense is chilling, the end great fun.