![]() However, when Bee stays over one Friday night while his parents are away, Cole – at the urging of the girl across the street, Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind) – stays up to see what his babysitter gets up to once he’s in bed, on the suspicion that she might have a boyfriend around to, y’know, do it and stuff. In fact, Bee seems to be pretty much his best friend, never belittling him, sharing in his interests, teaching him to believe in himself, and not getting too weirded out by his obvious schoolboy crush on her. However, as the sitter in question is smoking hot high school senior Bee (Samara Weaving of Ash vs Evil Dead and Mayhem), Cole doesn’t consider that such a bad thing. Routinely picked on at school and very low on self-confidence, he’s also the only kid his age still left with a sitter when his parents go out. BEE THE BABYSITTER MOVIEIt might not win over all the oldies among us, but The Babysitter seems very likely to become the new favourite horror movie of young teenagers everywhere.Ĭole (Judah Lewis) is your standard awkward young male on the cusp of adolescence. Now, The Babysitter carries on that tradition with something rather more light-hearted and jovial, which may not skimp out on the viscera, but remains just that bit gentle enough to not alienate the younger viewers at whom it is clearly targeted. We have of course seen a bit of a resurgence in that format this year, with the hugely successful first volume of IT. I’ve spoken at length in the past about my deep affection for the kiddie horror movies of the 1980s movies with the tenacity to cast minors as the heroes and pit them against genuinely sinister threats. Although it turns out McG’s The Babysitter has less in common with the standard slashers than you might initially expect. Or, y’know, £7 a month or whatever it is now. But what do we have in the meantime? A Netflix original horror comedy which twists the classic slasher format by making the beautiful teenage babysitter the antagonist, rather than the final girl? Okay, I’ll buy that for a dollar. Okay, I’ll accept that perhaps not all readers will be as bummed about that as I am, but I also know that I’m not alone in missing the simple, time-honoured pleasures of that most simple of horror franchises. Sigh – yet another Friday the 13th comes around, yet for the eighth bloody year in a row we still don’t have another Friday the 13th movie. ![]()
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