*Originally written October 13th, 2017*
"A good Netflix Original Film?!"
This was not a film I had any interest in seeing. Netflix films are usually garbage and McG is a director even worse than his name, so this turned out to be an unspectacular, albeit fun horror-comedy for the most part. Which is far more than expected.
It plays on the sexy babysitter trope by having the sitter as the villain. And Samara Weaving does a great job as the insanely hot title character and is quite possibly the most likeable murderous cult head I've seen on screen. Judah Lewis also does a solid job as the kid forced to go head to head with his babysitter after staying awake and witnessing her cult ritual with her friends.
Being only 85 minutes really worked in the films favour. It's sort of structured like a video game. The kid works his way about the teenagers one by one, killing them in surprisingly grizzly, funny and creative ways. It felt a bit like a Tucker and Dale vs Evil. It was a nice reverse to see the victim rack up a higher body count than the villains, but it's weird to see this 12 year old kid not be phased by any of the deaths he caused. I know it's not that sound of film, but it was still a little off.
I really wasn't a fan of some of the direction. There's some lame and stylised on screen writing that wasn't needed. It also really does look like a DTV film, which is a shame. It's clearly low-budget, but it's not hard to make a film not look like an ABC TV pilot. Especially with Netflix's funds.
It's not great, it's not bad, but The Babysitter is merely serviceable entertainment with a solid lead performance from Samara Weaving. Which is far more than you can expect from Netflix Original Films at this point. A pleasant surprise I was expecting to give one star.
6/10 Dans
The Babysitter is streaming now on Netflix UK
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