![]() ![]() The Babysitter is a horror comedy that hits all the right marks It’s over the top and camp in the best of ways, while being very much a horror slasher. Awesome characters, super quotable lines and lots of blood. The script has some clever ideas and set-pieces too. The Babysitter is a new horror comedy on Netflix and it’s absolutely brilliant. Judah Lewis is an amiable lead, and Samara Weaving - who also gives a breakout performance in this year’s cleverer, cooler horror-comedy Mayhem - proves that she’s a hilarious, unpredictable performer. Cole is a timid yet lovable 12-year-old kid who's afraid of needles, gets bullied at school, and has the hottest babysitter that has ever been know to man, Bee.Bee is a sexy, witty, closet nerd who really likes Cole, and they spend their time together nerding-out about Sci-Fi flicks and discussing how Cole should put the moves on the neighbor girl. It’s a shame too, because the idea is strong and the cast is doing their jobs. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71 based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. ![]() The Babysitter is a comedy, obviously, but it’s still trying to tell a real, albeit simple story, and it can’t even cover its own bases. But the killers have a tendency to stop acting like killers whenever the filmmakers think it would be a funny joke - which it usually isn’t - and Cole has a tendency to do brave things long before he’s supposed to have learned how to be brave. 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. Cole sees his babysitter and her friends commit a horrific act of violence, and now they’re out to get him. 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. 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. 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. To be fair, The Babysitter isn’t trying to be brilliant. Nobody will be killed if he doesn’t come back. There is literally nothing keeping him from running all the way to a neighbor’s house or to the nearest police station. 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. ![]()
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