![]() I agree with you about The Babysitter‘s abysmal plotting, which I’m sure is no surprise. ![]() It’s funny that you should mention Better Watch Out I also spent much of my time wishing that I were watching Peckover’s holiday horror masterpiece, instead. V, what were your overall impressions of the film? Did McG’s habit of literally visualizing action with written titles and phrases amuse or annoy you? And dare we wade into the murky gender representations? Considering that this was a Blacklist screenplay waaaaay back in 2014, I’m shocked that there isn’t more to it. Sure, there’s a throwaway line about a virgin and an innocent, but what exactly is their motivation beyond “get everything you want”? It plays out more like screenwriter Brian Duffield had a great idea about a babysitter that tries to kill her charge, but never bothered to flesh out the concept. Even at the end of the film I had no real idea why this group of twenty-something hotties showed up in poor Cole’s house looking to make not one, but two sacrifices. Even if Peckover’s film wasn’t a much more interesting inversion of familiar horror tropes, though, The Babysitter is just a really poorly plotted. I should confess right off the top here that part of the reason may be that I spent most of the brief 85 minute runtime comparing it unfavourably to Chris Peckover’s much superior Better Watch Out (which just came out on iTunes and VOD last week and is a much more enjoyable experience). Unfortunately The Babysitter, his first directorial effort in three years, didn’t do it for me at all. Well, here we are for our very first He Said/She Said and what a cinematic masterpiece we picked for our first discussion! I have got to say that I’ve always enjoyed (admired?) the high octane visual energy of McG, even if his films more often than not veer off a cliff narratively. Synopsis: “When Cole (Judah Lewis) stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving) is part of a satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.” First up: Netflix’s original horror film, The Babysitter (2017). In He Said/She Said, critics Joe and Valeska dissect a film in a back and forth email exchange.
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