The Babysitter: Killer Queen
2020
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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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- Bella Thorne
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
- Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter Wants Me Dead.
- Verdict
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
This movie is a good cross between teen comedy and a chase scene in an 80s horror movie. The Babysitter is pretty fun to watch but it's not super funny, or super scary; it has an entertaining mixture of both. If you thought The Cabin in the Woods was good, this is probably a teen equivalent.
Violent, gory horror movie has some laughs, too. Read Common Sense Media's The Babysitter review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Mcg
- Andrea Beach
- Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Robbie Amell
An atmospheric mix of classic 70's horror and a noir thriller, "The Babysitter " is an exceptional debut film from writer-director Greg Klepper. This short packs a complete, satisfying story experience into its 31 minute run time, and is definitely worth a look.
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Jan 16, 2018 · The Babysitter is perfectly trashy popcorn entertainment, with a distinctive, highly-stylized vision and self-satirizing bite; a lesson in embracing genre conventions rather than falling victim to them.
