The Babysitter, is directed by McG the director of the original Charlie's Angels movies starring Drew Barrymore, and is written by Brian Duffield, whose recent screenplay adaptations were Insurgent (divergent series), Underwater (a horror film starring Kristen Stewart) and Jane Got a Gun (a Western starring Natalie Portman). Exclusively distributed by Netflix; Babysitter 2 is slated for a fall release later this year and returns the original Director and 90% of the original cast.
The Premise - Cole, played by Judah Lewis is for the first two-thirds of the movie a socially inept and introverted 12 year old boy, the film goes through great detail setting up all the neighboring characters including his parents, and the conflicts that Cole contends with on a daily nature. He is the only 12 year old in town who still has a babysitter, whose name is Bee played by Samara Weaving; Bee is a statuesque dream girl for any young boy. The night his parents goes away for the weekend Bee's past comes into light . Cole has to overcome his every fear which has been carefully laid out throughout the movie if he a chance to survive the night and ultimately Bee herself.
The action, gore, and unusual dark comedy, comes across almost seamless as the revelation presents itself to Cole . What is presented in the trailer is what is provided in the movie, but it is given to you in the final act, its a very, very slow burn from the threading of all the in and outs of social expositions which does eventually pay off. As for McG, he goes full throttle with pitting a league of 5 psychopathic teenagers vs 1 boy. The criticism is that the reveal is not greater than the sum of its lead up. The movie becomes too easy to tune out, when its leading premise is trivial adolescent angst and awkwardness; before we get to see a single drop of blood, which occurs past the one hour mark.
The biggest surprise was the script, learning it was shuffled around for quite awhile back in 2014, before getting picked up, and was surprising to learn it was on Hollywood's Blacklist. Meaning it was one of the 'most liked', unproduced screenplays of the year. It finally got filmed the following year with intention of having a theatrical release when Netflix acquired the rights for streaming and gave it a Friday the 13th (October (2017) release.
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