Nanny(2022)
2022 · Nikyatu Jusu · 98 min
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
Horror · Drama
5.3244 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How scary is Nanny?
There's a heavy, uneasy feeling that builds slowly rather than jumping out at you, more like watching someone's anxiety and grief take shape than a traditional scare. The fear here comes from unsettling dream-like visions and a mounting sense of dread tied to folklore and myth, not from chases or blood. It moves at a patient, drama-like pace, spending as much time on real-life stress and loneliness as on its horror elements. This is better suited to someone who wants a thoughtful, artful kind of unease than someone looking for thrills or scares to jump at.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Nanny rates psychological 5/5, visceral 2/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 70 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, dreamlike simmer of unease that gradually deepens into more disorienting and intense stretches before easing into an unsettling close.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3.
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