‘The Babysitter’ Trailer Attempts To Make Human Sacrifice A Laugh Riot
Hey, rememberMcG? The director ofCharlie’s Angels,Terminator: Salvationand other movies that really don’t hold up well, if they ever held up at all? Well he’s back, and now he’s working within the freeing world of Netflix! His latest film, the horror comedyThe Babysitter, will hit Netflix this month, and you may catch your first glimpse of the film now.The Babysittertrailer is below!
Billed as a film about “human sacrifice with hot people,” whatever the hell that means,The Babysitterfocuses on a lonely 12-year-old boy with a crush on his babysitter. That’s nothing out of the ordinary, but whatisout of the ordinary is the fact that the babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that wants to sacrifice the lovestruck kid. Shenanigans ensue! If you don’t believe me, just watch the shenanigan-heavy trailer. The shenanigans are off the charts here, people. Fair warning though: if you’re a spoiler-phobe, this trailer seems to give away several deaths involving the film’s main characters.
The Babysitter Trailer
The BabysitterstarsBella Thorne,Robbie Amell,Samara Weaving,Andrew Bachelor,Hana Mae Lee, andJudah Lewis, all of whom seem to suffer various forms of cartoony violence here. Look, I’m not going to say an idea like this couldn’t inspire a great, twisted dark comedy. I’m just not sure McG is the man to make that happen. Judging by this trailer, much of the humor ofThe Babysittersprings from characters acting like annoying jerks and then occasionally getting hurt. It’s like a very unfunnyThree Stoogesskit stretched to feature-length with blood added. If that floats your boat, more power to you. That said, the premise of this film seems somewhat similar toMurder Party, the directorial debut ofGreen RoomandBlue Ruinfilmmaker Jeremy Saulnier. Maybe you should just watch that instead – which you may if you have a Shudder subscription, as the film is currently streaming there.The Babysitterwas originally supposed to be a New Line Cinema release, but after several release date delays, New Line agreed to sell the film to the Boies/Schiller Film Group, who then sold it to Netflix, perVariety.The Babysitterscript, byBrian Duffield, who also wrote the firstInsurgentfilm and the troubled Natalie Portman filmJane Got a Gun, had been making the rounds in Hollywood since at least 2014, where it ended up onthe Black List, an annual survey of the most highly regard unproduced screenplays. Which means someone, somewhere, really liked this thing. Maybe this is just a poorly put together trailer? Maybe there are untold riches awaiting us all in McG’sThe Babysitter.The Babysitterdrops on NetflixOctober 13.
