5/17/2023 0 Comments Watching the babysitter![]() So make sure the baby is asleep, lock the doors, and ignore those scratching sounds at the window-it’s probably just a tree branch… The following is a list of the best babysitter horror movies ever made. There’s a special sub-genre of babysitter horror movies, though, which flip the script entirely and cast the babysitter as the evil force. The popular urban legend “the babysitter and the man upstairs”, as depicted in Urban Legend (1998), is a well known horror story about babysitting. Horror gets much of its power by juxtaposing the weak and vulnerable against remorseless forces of evil because at some point in our lives, we’ve all felt threatened and powerless. ![]() It doesn’t matter whether those forces be human antagonists, supernatural entities, or even entirely in the victim’s head. But they’ve found their own special niche in horror because two innocent and vulnerable groups-both the babies and the sitters-are placed in harm’s way by malicious forces. Not in terms of plot or anything, you know how it’s going to end, you’ll just be pretty surprised at some of the pit stops they take in getting there.Babysitter horror movies tend to overlap with kidnapping and home-invasion movies. This movie takes a lot of weird turns, plays a lot of unexpected tunes, and really keeps you guessing. Want to see if Bella Thorne finds a way to top her self-compliments? Go for it. Are you in it for Robbie Amell’s random absence of a shirt? Done. Plus, if you liked the first, you’ll likely be pleased with the second. I didn’t think it was good, but it was definitely having fun and I guess it rubbed off. For that reason alone, perhaps, I couldn’t hate it. It doesn’t take itself seriously though, it embraces the absurd with open arms, it’s an odd kind of film and it knows it. This one isn’t a horror-comedy but it IS unintentionally funny. We recently reviewed Get Duked!, an actually funny horror-comedy. He also directed Terminator Salvation, but don’t worry, you needn’t remember that because this movie references it HEAVILY. But maybe just remember this is how he got his start, so that if, just for random example, this horror movie has a quick music video sidebar in the middle of it, you won’t be too surprised. Not that anyone else is fool enough to start calling himself McG, but yes, that McG, the McG who directed all those crazy annoying earworm 90s music videos you’re still having PTSD about: Smashmouth’s All Star AND Walking on the Sun, Offspring’s Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) and Why Don’t You Get A Job, Fastball’s The Way, Sugar Ray’s Fly, Barenaked Ladies’ One Week, and yes I could go on but I won’t because ew. I should mention here that the movie is directed by McG. It takes perverse pleasure in ripping bodies apart at the seams and showing every stringy inch of it. This movie is not big on actual horror, it’s not scary, it’s not even tense, but it is gory and rather graphic. It’s a classic teen slasher flick and by god there will be slashing. I never saw the first one and you won’t have to either because the sequel makes heavy use of flashbacks, but honestly, it’s also just pretty darn shallow. This horror film newly available on Netflix is a sequel to 2017’s apparent hit, The Babysitter, as astute readers will have guessed from my casual use of “two years ago” up in the first paragraph, which you can now appreciate for having been deeply meaningful. Trust me, I know that math does not add up, but that’s called “movie magic” and the first rule of movie magic is you never fucking question it. A very inconsiderate second round of blood cult is about to go down, so they’ll get plenty of alone time to put his freshly purchased Magnum XL’s to good use while literally also running for their lives. Lucky for him, the mysterious new girl who he only just met that morning, Phoebe (Jenna Ortega), is also at the lake to “have some alone time” despite the crowded beach party. I mean seriously, if you narrowly survive a blood cult, the LEAST you could do is start boning up on horror movies and, you know, get a clue. ![]() As Cole should have guessed, the lake is code for murder town.
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