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The babysitter 2017 review5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of taking the piss out of horror tropes like the first film, there are literal jokes about pissing…oh, how the mighty have fallen. Gone is the clever wit of the original, replaced by the lowest of low-brow humour. This is actually done for the benefit of the film, as you will be hard-pressed to actually find anything else to laugh at. The ludicrous amount of blood on display is highly laughable, and reminiscent of some classic camp horror flicks of the 20th century. Cue lots of running, screaming, and people dying in literal volcanic eruptions of blood. New student Phoebe (Jenna Ortega), not too far from crazy herself, is dragged into Cole’s now recurring nightmare when she stumbles into the whole bloody affair. What was supposed to be Cole letting off steam turns into another bloodbath, when the old cult members sans Bee – shirtless dumb guy Max (Robbie Amell), woefully clueless Allison (Bella Throne), fast-talking John (Andrew Bachelor), and morbid Goth girl Sonya (Hana Mae Lee) – somehow return from the dead. When Cole finds out about their plans, he decides to take Melanie up on her rebellious offer to ditch school and instead spend a night partying at the local lake with her friends. Even his supportive yet ditzy parents (Leslie Bibb and Ken Marino) don’t believe him and are even considering sending him to an institution. Cole’s status as a social pariah despite his achievements stems from the fact that after he killed Bee and her fellow cultists in self-defense, their bodies and the evidence of their actions had mysteriously disappeared – leading everyone to believe Cole just made it all up. His only friend is Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind), his cute neighbor from the first movie who still has a crush on him despite having a dumb jock boyfriend now. Set two years later after the first film, Killer Queen finds Cole in his junior year of high school, bullied by literally everyone. ![]() As much as I enjoyed the first film, which saw nerdy preteen Cole (Judah Lewis) discover that his cool babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving) and her friends are a part of a Satanic cult, the sequel tries too hard to be edgy, and ruins everything good about the first film. In fact, if you want to be more accurate to the trailers, it’s bloody terrible. The Babysitter: Killer Queen, McG’s follow up to his 2017 Netflix horror-comedy The Babysitter, is terrible. There is unfortunately no other way to say it. ![]()
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