![]() ![]() We get some kissing designed to titillate before Bee turns her attentions to Samuel. We have the stuck-up cheerleader Allison (Bella Thorne), the muscle-head jock Max (Robbie Amell), the token black guy named John (Andrew Bachelor), the gothic and mysterious Sonya (Hana Mae Lee) and the nerdy nervous Samuel (Doug Haley). ![]() Yes, this is supposed to be part of the joke but unlike say…The Cabin the Woods, The Babysitter doesn’t throw us a curveball, instead running with these exact characters. Welcome to stock-character city where everyone is just defined by what the film says they are. That night, when he is supposed to be asleep, Cole sees Bee invite several of her friends into the house and they play spin the bottle. Talking with his friend on the bus about what happens when he goes to bed, Cole decides to stay up to see if Bee invites over a boy and has sex. So, when they go away for the weekend, Bee is hired to look after the lad. Him being the ‘scared of everything/bullied’ character we’ve seen so much, he is naturally drawn to her confident ways.Ĭole’s a good kid but his parents aren’t quite ready to leave him alone just yet. She’s so perfect in fact, that it’s almost unbelievable.Ĭole and Bee get along so great that it seems like less of a job for her and more like she is just hanging out with her friend. She is the coolest babysitter you’ll ever see and as near to perfect as you could possibly get. The Babysitter doesn’t try to avoid tropes nor clichés, instead hoping that bucketloads of blood and constant jokes will draw the audiences in.Ĭole (Judah Lewis) is a young boy head over heels in love with his babysitter, Bee (Samara Weaving). Entertainment has changed and we’re so used to certain tropes in horror that it’s almost a requirement to avoid them in your movie. It was and remains a great era for horror so you can’t blame directors, writers and production companies for trying to capture a little bit of that magic. Clichés weren’t clichés yet and the term ‘so bad, it’s good’ really came to light in this decade. As we have often said, the 80s in horror was a magical time where any idea, no matter how crazy or stupid it was, could be made and put out for the public consumption. We’re finding more and more movies trying this and the results…well, they rarely turn out good. Really hard to balance horror and comedy but comes up short in both departments inevitably.Īs is becoming a little too common, The Babysitter looks to recapture the glory days of 80s horror. ![]()
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