The Babysitter: Killer Queen
2020
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- 2017 · Horror · 1h 25m
Enjoyable if not particularly original, The Babysitter makes the most of its familiar genre ingredients with energetic direction and a killer cast. Read Critics Reviews. Jun 24, 2020. Rated:...
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- Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter Wants Me Dead.
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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
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Ryan Larson Ghastly Grinning. Director McG and writer Brian Duffield deserve a lot of credit for The Babysitter, it isn't groundbreaking but it's a...
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Enjoyable if not particularly original, The Babysitter makes the most of its familiar genre ingredients with energetic direction and a killer cast."
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- October 13, 2017 (United States)
Oct 13, 2017 · Judah Lewis. Samara Weaving. Robbie Amell. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. Add to Watchlist. Added by 71.8K users. 421 User reviews. 107 Critic reviews. Videos 2. Trailer 2:18.
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'The Babysitter' is original, unpredictable and, most importantly, highly entertaining. The gore is aplenty and, to my surprise, the film is consistently funny with some genuinely hilarious one-liners.
Jan 16, 2018 · Film Reviews. THE BABYSITTER: Highly-Stylized Horror Fun. January 16, 2018. Nathan Osborne. Nathan decided to take a gap year after completing his… Cotton candy colored hues and bold, garish set designs seem to meet us at every turn in Netflix’s The Babysitter, a terrific little teen-horror-comedy with a self-satirizing bite.
