Horror fans one of the most common I guess tropes is that of the killer stalking the babysitter it's a film that's been done so many time it's unbelievable. As such it really shouldn't surprise you that there's a whole fil just dedicated to that idea but there is and not only that this one film has spawned I guess you could say an entire franchise of films and so join me horror fans as I review the 2013 film "Babysitter Massacre" enjoy.
Now here's where I would normally tell you what the plot of the film is as well as give you my opinion on the plot of the film. However the film chose not to include a story which is the first issue since the film is pretty dull without having a plot and I do strongly feel that this film would have been more watchable if there was a story since then we could have got alot more insight into the characters and it would have given the film a reason for existing.
Starring in the film is Erin R. Ryan as Angela , Marylee Osborne as Bianca , Joni Durian as Lucky and Tara Clark as Arlene. Also starring in the film is , Odette Despairr as Linda , Serendipity Lynch as Sandy , Geoff Burkman as Mr. Walker , Stephanie Coffey as Allison , Chandra McCracken as Tina , David Denoyer as Tony , Amy Taint as Cindy , Haley Madison as Cassandra , Mike Canestaro as John , Stephanie Michael as Britney , Marshall Norman as Tyler Petrino , Rachel Kathryn Ritter as Erica , Bradley Diehl as David and Alicia Lozier as Melani.
Just to give you guys an idea of the quality of the acting that's in this film this film was made very freaking cheaply. So yeah as you can expect the acting in the film is going to be pretty bad but given that this is a very low budget film that's to be expected and as such nobody can really knock the film for having bad acting since there of course not going to get the best actors on a tiny as hell budget and I do feel that given the film's budget the acting from all of the cast members is at best passable which is honestly to be expected since like I just said this is a very low budget film and as such you have to lower your expectations.
Like a ton of these low budget horror films there's a ton of nudity in this film and all of it is gratuitous as all hell. Since the nudity adds nothing to the film or the characters hell there's so much nudity in this film that almost every single main female character at one point or another goes topless and I have that it honestly got pretty dull watching the girls go topless for no reason and I get that s*x sells but you still have to make a good movie but here the focus seems to be more about showing us these s*xy women instead of telling a good even passable story.
Now i could be wrong here but it seems like this film was going for a mystery angle and I say that because they have the killer's face hidden for the vast majority of the film. If they were going for a mystery angle then I have to say that they did a poor job of it because they didn't give us any clues whatsoever but if that wasn't the case and the makers of the film weren't going for a mystery angle then I have to wonder why did they keep the killers face hidden for the vast majority of the film since that would imply that we have to work out who the killer is.
I will say that they were trying to go for somewhat of a plot arc with the character of Bianca who as mentioned before was played by Marylee Osborne. However they didn't follow through with that arc whatsoever since her arc was trying to rescue her friends and thus make up for what she did in the past by standing up to the killer however when the time came to resolve that arc Bianca did nothing but stand there and cry with one of her friends telling her to leave so that the friend could save Bianca's life which to me at least a huge let down since it was an interesting arc for the Bianca character it's just a shame that the film makers chose not to go all the way with that arc.
This film has a total running time of one hour and eighteen minuets and thirty two seconds and trust me when i tell you that the film feels alot longer then that. The film feels alot longer then one hour and eighteen minuets and thirty two seconds because not only is there no story but also alot of the victim characters are honestly really unlikable I can't think of a single main character that I liked in this film and to me added to the boredom of this film since all I was doing was waiting for the film to over and done with.
You can tell that this is a low budget film since there's not that many locations in the film and the film is mostly shot in the day. Even the scenes set at night you can tell were filmed in the day because of the fact that in some shots you can see that the sky is still a little bit blue , I get that the makers of this film didn't have a huge budget but surely they could have filmed some scenes like early in the morning since then the sky would match with whatever nighttime scenes they were trying to film but they didn't even try to film very early in the morning and so we are left with scenes that you can tell were filmed in the late afternoon / early to late evening.
Now then since this is a slasher film that does mean that we have to talk about the kills that are in the film. Which are honestly rather simple which given this film's budget is to be expected alot of the kills in the film are either throat slits or people getting hit on the head with a hammer and sometimes people getting stabbed in the chest with the sharp end of a hammer (whatever that ends called) and even those are simple kills that have been done to death they do work really well for this film in my opinion and it's always good seeing all of the extremely unlikable characters getting killed.
Overall if your in the mood for a really low budget horror film then I guess this would be a good one to watch. However at the same time the film does have a lot of faults even for a low budget horror film and those issues are hard to ignore they could have been fixed if the makers of the film but in the effort to make a decent film but since they didn't bother to fix this issue that I mentioned in this and yes the film does have good things in it as well which i've covered in this review as such this film gets a generous 4 out of 10 from me.
All and I do mean all of the images that I got in this review I got from Google Images and nowhere else. Since I only went to Google Images for the images that I ended up using in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use Google Images if for some reason you want images from this film and alot of the images from this film on Google Images were shocking very high definition and as always we end this review we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing all of us some very unpleasant dreams.
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