The Babysitter (2017) – Movie Review

<p>Ok&comma; so Netflix is killing my workflow&period; They keep throwing out interesting movies and I keep holding down my couch watching them&period; This time the movie was <em>The Babysitter<&sol;em> &lpar;2017&rpar; and I have to say it was pretty fun to watch&period; So&comma; how did the movie&comma; <em>The Babysitter<&sol;em>&comma; come to be&quest; Well&comma; back in December 2014 Brian Duffield&&num;8217&semi;s script made it to the Black List&comma; which is a list of the best-unproduced scripts in Hollywood&period; In November 2014&comma; Duffield&&num;8217&semi;s script for <em>The Babysitter<&sol;em> was bought by McG&&num;8217&semi;s Wonderland Sound and Vision&period; Then in December 2016&comma; Netflix acquired distribution rights for <em>The Babysitter<&sol;em> from New Line Cinema and&&num;8230&semi; that&&num;8217&semi;s how Netflix found another way to keep me glued to my couch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;136251" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-136251" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-136251 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;28144549&sol;The-Babysitter-still-1-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-136251" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Boies&comma; The Babysitter<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The Babysitter is a comedy&sol;horror that was directed by McG and written by Brian Duffield&period; It has an eighty-five minute run time and is rated TV-MA for language and violence&period; As far as the story goes&comma; here&&num;8217&semi;s what you&&num;8217&semi;re getting into with <em>The Babysitter<&sol;em>&period; Cole is a twelve-year-old boy that has some issues in life&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s a bit of an odd kid and that makes him a target to get picked on by bullies&period; Luckily&comma; Cole has Bee&comma; his friend&sol;babysitter&comma; on his side&period; Bee sees Cole is different but thinks he&&num;8217&semi;s cool just the way he is&period; Cole&&num;8217&semi;s parents are going out for the night&comma; and as usual call Bee to babysit him&period; After talking to a friend about what babysitters do after the kids go to bed&comma; Cole decides he&&num;8217&semi;s going to stay up and find out for himself&comma; what really goes on&period; Tucked into bed&comma; Cole waits and then sneaks out of his room to see what Bee has planned tonight&period; What Cole thought would be a fun adventure&comma; turns out to be the most horrific night of his life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story was good and filled with a lot more humor than I expected&period; Through the course of the story&comma; you watch as a scaredy cat Cole overcomes his fears and takes charge&period; Even in the most serious moments&comma; they found a way to throw in a bit of humor&comma; which helped keep the movie light and fun to watch&period; Something that I liked about the story was it was different and something that I hadn&&num;8217&semi;t seen in awhile&period; Yeah&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a slasher kind of flick&comma; but going the way they did with the babysitter and using a kid as the hero put a different spin on the story&comma; which was nice to see&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;136252" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-136252" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-136252 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;28144625&sol;The-Babysitter-still-2-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-136252" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Boies&comma; The Babysitter<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As far as the playthrough goes&comma; things start off a bit slow as they introduce the characters&comma; but once things kick off the pace picks up and stays that way until the end&period; I was surprised with how much I was laughing through the movie&period; Now&comma; as much as I liked everything that was going on&comma; the story is seriously simple once you find out why everything is happening and it becomes a victim runs while the killers&&num;8217&semi; chase kind of movie with bits of comedy injected into it&period; So&comma; this one falls into a no-brainer kind of movie where you can just sit back&comma; watch and laugh&comma; which works if you&&num;8217&semi;re looking to kick back and relax with something&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of the cast is Judah Lewis &lpar;<em>Demolition<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Samara Weaving &lpar;<em>Monster Trucks<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Robbie Amell &lpar;<em>ARQ<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Hana Mae Lee &lpar;<em>Pitch Perfect 2<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Bella Thorne &lpar;<em>Amityville&colon; The Awakening<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Andrew Bachelor &lpar;<em>Where&&num;8217&semi;s the Money<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Emily Alyn Lind &lpar;<em>J&period; Edgar<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Miles J&period; Harvey &lpar;<em>The Dinner<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Leslie Bibb &lpar;<em>Law Abiding Citizen<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Ken Marion &lpar;<em>We&&num;8217&semi;re the Millers<&sol;em>&rpar;&period; I thought everyone in the cast did a great job&comma; but Amell&&num;8217&semi;s character was my favorite&period; Yeah&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s a killer&comma; but he&&num;8217&semi;s totally ok with it&comma; which is what made his character so funny&period; Marion is always worth a laugh in his comedy roles and Bibb has brought the laughs a few times&comma; so I was looking forward to seeing what they would be doing in this one&period; Come to find out&comma; they both play a really small part in the movie and you only see them for a few minutes here and there as they throw out a couple of quick jokes here and there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;136253" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-136253" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-136253 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;28144701&sol;The-Babysitter-still-3-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-136253" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Boies&comma; The Babysitter<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The special effects looked good and I really liked that they went with practical effects for the most part and CGI when needed&period; As far as gore goes&comma; things get seriously bloody for a few scenes and a guy gets stabbed in the head&comma; which you get a solid view of&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not in every scene&comma; but things do get very visual is spots&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve watched <em>The Babysitter<&sol;em> a few times now and I still get a laugh out of it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;