The Babysitter: Killer Queen
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Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/24 Full Review Flick F The Babysitter is a pretty good movie with an interesting storyline and some really funny moments. It has a lot of gore and ...
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By William Bibbiani
Posted: Oct 13, 2017 5:31 pm
The Babysitter is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.
It’s easy to judge the protagonist of a horror movie from the comfort of a movie theater or from your cozy little couch. But it’s important to remember that they’ve spent their whole lives completely unaware that they’d spend this one night fighting murderers to the death, and that their brains are coursing with panic and their bodies are coursing with adrenaline. It’s frustrating, but not unreasonable, that they would make poor decisions based on fight-or-flight instincts. Usually.
But you might want to draw the line at The Babysitter, a film about a kid who discovers that his babysitter is a maniac, and who at one point escapes the house and proceeds to… run back underneath the house and set up booby traps. There is literally nothing keeping him from running all the way to a neighbor’s house or to the nearest police station. No one is directly behind him. There is no electrified perimeter fence. Nobody will be killed if he doesn’t come back.
To be fair, The Babysitter isn’t trying to be brilliant. It’s a crass teen comedy that ogles young women, makes tawdry sex jokes and oversells every little moment just in case you didn’t get it. The words “WHAT THE F**K” literally fill the screen when our hero, Cole (Judah Lewis), sees his seemingly awesome babysitter, Bee (Samara Weaving), kill somebody. Netflix's The Babysitter stars (from L-R) Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Samara Weaving, Judah Lewis, Hana Mae Lee, and Andrew Bachelor.The problem is that The Babysitter only needs to rely on the smallest amount of internal logic in order to work, as a horror movie or a comedy, and it can’t even get that right. Cole sees his babysitter and her friends commit a horrific act of violence, and now they’re out to get him. Cole, as we learn at the start of the movie, is a bit of a coward, and so he must overcome his fears in order to save his own life and the lives of others.
The Babysitter had potential but director McG treats this material like it’s one of the lamer American Pie sequels. The broadness of the humor detracts from the characters and the story and the horror, instead of complementing them. It may be manic enough to amuse some horror fans, but it’s so immature -- even about its own immaturity -- that it’s ...
- William Bibbiani
The film was released by Netflix on October 13, 2017, and received mostly positive reviews from critics. A sequel, The Babysitter: Killer Queen , was released on September 10, 2020. Plot [ edit ]
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Clocking in at a crisp, succinct 80 minutes, The Babysitter is an enjoyable, breezy film that doesn't take itself too seriously. Full Review | Dec 19, 2017 John Lui The Straits Times (Singapore)
Oct 13, 2017 · The Babysitter: Directed by McG. With Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Robbie Amell, Hana Mae Lee. When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot baby sitter belongs to a satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.
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- Comedy, Horror
- McG
- 2017-10-13
Our review: Parents say ( 20 ): Kids say ( 87 ): Loads of appeal here for teen horror-comedy fans: attractive teen characters, inept adults, comic hysteria, childhood nostalgia, extended kissing scene, and, oh yeah, buckets and buckets of blood. The Babysitter sits comfortably somewhere in between the smarter-but-less-gory Buffy the Vampire ...
Jan 16, 2018 · In Summary: The Babysitter. The Babysitter embraces its barminess, allowing audiences to do the same. It avoids taking itself too seriously, lapping up the violence and fun and imparting it on the audience with a knowing wink and a self-aware nudge. Because of some impressive performances, solid direction and bold decisions, it’s difficult ...
