The Babysitter Review

 

Now then horror fans yesterday I promised you that i'd be doing a review of the 2017 film The Babysitter. While I wasn't quite sure as to when the review would be coming out I thought it was best to get this review out early in the morning so that way i;m not putting of watching this film and I gave to say that after watching the film there are aspects of the film that I feel was done better in the sequel and so join me as I review "The Babysitter" enjoy.

The plot of the film is Cole is left with his babysitter when his parents go away for the weekend only after staying up past his bed time he discovers that his babysitter is part of a cult and wants to kill him. Just like with the second film I felt that the story in this film was honestly rather refreshing and for once original and it helps that the story was rather told in my opinion and it helps that is a story that I don't think we've seen before in horror films but I could be wrong tho.

Starring in the film is Samara Weaving as Bee , Hana Mae Lee as Sonya and Judah Lewis as Cole Johnson. Also starring in the film is Robbie Amell as Max , Bella Thorne as Allison , Andrew Bachelor as John , Emily Alyn Lind as Melanie , Leslie Bibb as Mom , Ken Marino as Dad , Doug Haley as Samuel , Miles J. Harvey as Jeremy and Chris Wylde as Juan. As with the sequel this film has a really good cast and that really does help the film in my opinion.

Again just like the with the sequel the acting in the film is enjoyably over the top with all the actors giving an over the top performance that oddly works for these films. I'd say that for these films at least if you give an over the top performance then your doing something right because this is the kind of the film series that doesn't require you to deliver an OSCAR worthy performance but instead requires you to go full on over the top with your performance.

Out of all the cult members I personally found Allison played by the stunning as all hell Bella Thorne the most fun to watch. Yes all of the cult members are fun in there own ways but to me the best one apart from bee is Allison just because she gets alot of the best lines in the entire film and it's because of that fact that she becomes the most fun cult member for me and yes she is the must fun cult member in the sequel as well.

In a case where the sequel did something better then the original is the films running time I honestly feel that the sequel's running time of an hour and forty two minuets is alot better then this film's hour and tweney five minuets running time. Just because with those extra seventeen minuets the story can get built up better , the kills can be more insane and any running jokes can be set up which all all the film in the long run and that's just not the case here.

I'm just going to say Bee is the best character in this whole movie and yes that includes our hero of the film as well. I say this because Bee is just so cool and in charge she won't be afraid to kill you if you make her angry and on top of that she's also oddly likeable which is something that I don't think i've said when talking about the villain in a horror film but I feel that it's true here plus she feels like she's a cool person just to hang out with.

I know I just talked about the running time but I have to mention it again because for me at least it's a pretty big issue. Since this film feels like it was made to be longer but for whatever reason it was cut down just under an hour and a half as such what could have been a truly great movie at times feels rushed because there trying to hit the next big plot point without taking the time to get us there at a more natural pace.

Now this film is listed as a comedy and so that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes that are in the film itself. I'm not going to lie there are some good jokes in this film most of which come from Bella Throne's character but at the same time I feel that the empathise here was put more on the horror aspect rather then the comedy so even tho this film does have it's laugh out loud moments the second film to me is funnier since there the focus is more on the comedy then the straight up horror but that's just what I think tho.

Like I said before the focus here is more on the horror element rather then the comedy and I have to say that that's a pretty good thing. Since we do get alot of cool deaths in this movie and while alot of the deaths in this film are as over the top as you'd want them to be from this kind of film there not always played for laughs like they are in the sequel which for a horror film let alone a horror comedy is always a good thing.

Overall now that i've seen the two films I can say that I personally prefer the second one more just because it lives up to the comedy horror name a bit better. However with that said there are things that I like about this film as well like for example the deaths in this film are much better then in the sequel but this film also gets alot of things wrong in my opinion as such this film gets an 8 out of 10 from me. All the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Netflix fandom wiki page , the official villains fandom wiki page or Google images and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.

 

The Babysitter: Killer Queen SPOILER FREE Review

 

Horror fans one of the most talked about horror films of 2017 is sadly a film I never got round to watching and well it just came out with a sequel. So i'm going to get ahead of the game here and take a look at the sequel and then hopefully tomorrow if not by Monday i'll be taking a look at the original because doing things in order is just dumb and so here is my review of "The Babysitter: Killer Queen" enjoy this SPOILER FREE review.

The plot of this movie is two years after the first Cole goes to a party at a lake with some friends only for his past to catch up with him. In terms of what I thought of the story it was honestly really freaking enjoyable and I like the fact that the plot doesn't take itself to seriously since that makes the story and the film more fun in my opinion and while I can't say for sure if the plot of this movie is the exact same as the previous movie from what i've seen on Youtube that does seem to be the case but I could be wrong tho.

Starring in the film is Judah Lewis as Cole Johnson , Emily Alyn Lind as Melanie and Jenna Ortega as Phoebe. Also starring in the film is Robbie Amell as Max , Andrew Bachelor as John , Leslie Bibb as Mrs. Johnson, Hana Mae Lee as Sonya , Bella Thorne as Allison , Ken Marino as Archie Johnson , Chris Wylde as Juan , Carl McDowell as Dr. Big Carl McManus , Maximilian Acevedo as Jimmy , Juliocesar Chavez as Diego and Jennifer Foster as Boom Boom.

Since I haven't seen the first film I can't say who is returning and who isn't and so I chose not to separate the two. As for what I thought about the acting in the film it's honestly alot better then what I thought that it was going to be and I say that because the acting in MCG films is rarely that good and so it's good to see a film made by him feature actually good acting and I hope that the same is true for the previous film as well.

Now despite not listing who is and isn't returning I do know a few actors who are returning but it wasn't enough to justify listing all of the returning actors. Incase your wondering if they say how the killers from the previous film come back I sadly cannot say that because it's a spoiler but I will say that the scene that the killers come back in is honestly a really funny scene and I highly recommend watching the movie just for that one scene alone it's that good.

Speaking of funny scenes we do get some backstory for the previous films killers but again i'm not going to say what those scenes are because honestly the film is worth watching just for those scenes alone. The scenes that give us the backstory to the previous films killers while they are indeed funny as hell they also add nothing to this movie and I honestly feel that they should have been included in the previous film.

They do try and do a fake out as to whose involved and who isn't and while it was very well set up with alot of hints given that this could have been the case. Sadly tho the reveal for me didn't really work mostly because the scene in question is mostly played for laughs instead of being treated like a big moment like it should have been which is a shame because the fake out is set up really freaking well in my opinion but the actual reveal as to who this film killers are is honestly really freaking well done in my opinion.

There is a certain character who does appear in this movie who is returning from the previous film but i;m choosing not to reveal who it is just because fans of the previous film will most likely read this review and I don't won't to spoil anything for them. Plus this is something that Netflix themselves should have left out the trailer since it would have made for a very cool surprise but since it's in the trailer it kind of ruins it a little since you know that it's coming.

This is a horror comedy and so that does mean that we have to talk about both of those aspects and so let's start with the comedy. I'm not going to lie this film is funny as hell I cannot count the times that I laughed during this film at all as for what I thought that best joke was apart from the scenes that give the previous films killers some backstory my favourite is actually near the end of the movie where they play a song that makes the title of the movie make so much sense.

Now that we've talked about the comedy in the film it now means we have to talk about the deaths in the film. Which without giving anything away the deaths in this film are just as over the top as you'd expect from a film called "The Babysitter: Killer Queen" with each death being so over the top and creative that you just can't help but love them and in some cases laugh at them since alot of the death scenes in the film include some jokes as well and the blood looks so good as well which for me at least is always a good thing.

Overall while I can't yet say if this is better then the first film simply because i'm yet to see the first film. I can say that this is a really good film and before you all say anything no you don't need to have seen the first film in order to understand this film since the film does cover what happens in the first film , while this film has alot of good things in it the film also has some faults which i've covered in this review as such the film gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

All the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Netflix fandom wiki page or Google Images. For once I actually cannot recommend which website is better for images from this film or the previous film simply because while I did find high definition images on the official Netflix fandom wiki page I also found a few on Google Images as well and so I have to say use whichever website you want to use and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.