The Babysitter Review
Babysitting is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world in this horror film. A pretty nurse gets attracted to psychiatrists like a magnet. Sometimes, the boys and girls who supervise are also murderous.
Yet, horror fans are as unwelcome as the comedies in The Babysitter. The gore effects are too tame, too common, while the gags are embarrassing and unpleasant.
Twelve-year-old Cole (Judah Lewis) is afraid of everything. Because of his paranoia, his classmates consider her a wimp. Babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving) seems to be the only bright spot in his existence. Cole can talk about everything with the cool blonde. Once his parents (Leslie Bibb and Ken Marino) travel over the weekend. As they leave him alone with Bee in the house, a dream comes true for him.
All day, the two swim in the pool, discussing Star Trek and watch old movies in the garden. In the evening, Bee sends her boyfriend to sleep. She invites some friends (Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, Hana Mae Lee, Andrew Bachelor) to the house. But, Cole wants to know, what the swarm is doing after he has gone to bed.
He observes the adults and witnesses a ritual murder. With horror, the boy realizes that Bee and their confidants are murderous Satanists. They are also looking for his blood.
In The Babysitter, pseudo-fantasies get served. When Samara Weaving is in the bikini, the camera of director McG begins in slow motion. Whoever favors the other sex, in return, has enough time to look at the chest and abdomen muscles of Robbie Amell. He runs around half the film completely without reason with a bare upper body. Although this is neither particularly clever nor particularly progressive.
One can still regard the plump and in which these scenes get built into the film, for an ironic wink. This is much more difficult elsewhere. The female figures lose a part of the body in the life-threatening clashes with Cole. They get more concerned about the integrity of the bosom and fingernails.
Bella Thorne declares that her life would be completely worthless without her bosom. In such moments, not only clichés get exposed, but people get denounced. The gags in the horror comedy are almost embarrassing adult jokes, which hardly one wants to hear. But when the filmmakers try to use ethnic humor, the level of sadness falls even deeper.
The black satanist John unites almost every film cliché about African Americans. It has existed since the 80s, in his person and reminds the audience every 20 seconds to the color of his skin. He also likes to say "Daaaaamn", and in conversations uses the one word with N.
In these scenes, The Babysitter seems to originate from a time that passes a long ago. Amidst all the duds, Samara Weaving is the only one who has some credibility and charm on her dialogues.
The Babysitter is not recommended for horror or for comedy fans. The dialogues are often used for alienation. Samara Weaving makes a good impression in the lead role. But the screenplay lets her down in the lurch. A few nice splatter effects do not help.