The Babysitter-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

PLOT SUMMARY: When Cole decides to stay up late to spy on his babysitter, he is shocked to discover that she has invited friends over not for a party but to perform rituals for her satanic cult. 

Babysitters have always been honored for holding the most important job of taking care of kids. Imagine taking care of a kid you have no relation to and making sure they are fine until their parents return home.

In the past, there have been several movies depicting babysitters as heroes. They either take their charges on adventures or teach them important life lessons. In some cases, they save the kids from deranged serial killers.

The parents entrust their kids to someone they think they know will do whatever it takes to protect their kids.

Not all babysitters are like that. Certainly not in horror movies.

THE BABYSITTER Movie Plot 

Cole is a twelve-year-old who gets basically picked on all the time at school. He has one friend, who is also his neighbor, Melanie. She’s the only one nice to him at school.

Cole also suffers from low self-confidence and cannot drive even at his father’s encouragement.

When returning home one day, he’s surrounded by his class bullies but saved by his babysitter, Bee.

Bee is pretty and menacing to bullies. She gets rid of him and gives Cole a ride home. She’s sweet to him and even wonders when he will be too cool to stop hanging out with her. Cole gets a morale boost, but he’s a growing boy and keeps checking out his babysitter.

Melanie calls Cole and they discuss what babysitters actually do when the kids go to sleep. She imagines babysitters call over their boyfriends and have fun.

Cole is eager to find out what Bee does when he goes to sleep. He should have just minded his own business.

He doesn’t.

When the parents leave and Bee comes over, Cole and she have a lot of fun baking pizzas, dancing to loud music and swimming.

Eventually, it is bedtime and Cole tells her he cannot sleep. Bee seems disappointed but offers to give him a shot if he promises not to tell his parents that he’s been taking alcohol.

Cole knows Bee wants him asleep quickly and agrees. When Bee hands him a shot glass, he asks her to get her own. While she’s away, he dumps the alcohol in a plant and pretends to have finished it.

He’s put to bed, but he stays up, waiting for Bee’s boyfriend to arrive. He hears people come in and tells Melanie over the phone that he can hear a lot of people. Melanie thinks they are doing something fun and Cole needs to check it out and tell her about it.

Cole creeps downstairs and peeks in through the railings. He sees Bee with her friends: Samuel, Max, Sonya, Allison and John. They are all sitting in a circle and playing spin the bottle.

Samuel is the only one who doesn’t seem to fit in with the others. He’s too nerdy and gets nervous when the bottle stops at Bee and she has to kiss everyone.

When it is Samuel’s turn, Bee makes him stand and asks him to relax. She kisses him, then in a shocking turn of events, uses two knives to stab him in the head.

Max and John quickly appear with goblets to collect the blood while Cole is freaking out over what he just saw.

Copious amounts of blood is spluttering out and Cole rushes upstairs to call the police. Then he hears the friends all discuss about going upstairs to check on Cole.

He gets into bed and pretends to be asleep. They all come in and Bee uses an injection to remove Cole’s blood.

Even though he’s terrified of needles, he remains calm, knowing his life depends on it. Before leaving, Bee notices the window is open and gives Cole a suspicious glance.

The lights go off and Cole jumps out of bed and begins tying his bedsheets. Bee turns on the lights and Cole freaks out. He jumps out with the bedsheet but it is still too high to jump. He is pulled back in and brought to the living room where he is tied to a chair.

Luckily for Cole, he had hidden his pocket knife with which he begins cutting the ropes. Unluckily for him, his chair is placed next to a mirror and everyone can see what he’s doing.

The police arrive just then and the friends no longer think Cole is cute. They insult him before getting ready for the cops who burst in with guns.

Allison is the first one to get shot in the chest. Max is shirtless and ready to tackle the police. Bee and her friends kill the police and Cole freaks out even more, certain that he’s next.

He runs upstairs and is pursued by John who trips and falls down on one of Cole’s parents’ trophy.

Cole runs out and hides in the crawlspace infested with spiders. Sonya follows him and Cole finds a firework rocket. He ignites it and escapes while it goes off pushing him further away as well.

Max is impressed with Cole for getting rid of John and Sonya. He chases him and Cole just about gets away before being accosted by his school bully who is throwing eggs at his house. Max appears and tells Cole to stand up for himself. He does but is rewarded by an egg on his head. Max tells Cole it was a good first try then chases him to Cole’s treehouse. But while boasting about his awesomeness, has a rope wound around his neck and hung.

Cole runs down the street and is invited in by Melanie. She kisses him while promising to call the police as Bee searches everywhere for Cole.

Cole reaches home and finds Allison on a chair. He assumes she’s dead but the next instant, she’s up and brandishing a knife. She tells him she wants to be a journalist but that her looks meant everything. Cole has apparently ruined a ritual where the friends were going to get exactly what they desired.

THE BABYSITTER Ending Explained with Spoilers!

Just as Allison is about to stab Cole, Bee appears and shoots her head off. Cole reveals he is betrayed by what Bee did go which she tells him that she made a deal with the devil wherein she would use the blood of innocents to spill on a book. As long as she did that and kept moving from town to town to be a babysitter so she could have access to an innocent’s blood, she would get exactly what she wanted.

She gives Cole a proposition to join her as he too could desire to not be afraid of bullies. Cole considers this before he says he cannot help Bee cheat kids into believing she was their best friend, exactly the way she had done to him. He takes the ancient, tattered book and burns it.

He runs out and takes Melanie’s dad’s car. He drives it toward his house just as Bee tries to put out the flames.

Cole drives the car right through the house and into her. He drags himself out and finds Bee trapped underneath.

He once again tells her he wishes she hadn’t betrayed him and that he was happy he got rid of her so that she couldn’t hurt more kids.

Bee closes her eyes as the police arrive. Everyone is outside, even the bully whose friends gesture a sign of respect to Cole. The bully is pissed Cole did something cool, then even more so when Cole’s parents arrive and run over his bicycle.

Cole tells his parents he no longer wants a babysitter.

In the mid-credit scene, a firefighter is inspecting the car crash and we see Bee is no longer there. He turns and there she is, right behind him and in attack mode.

The movie was a perfect combination of humor and horror, and did a decent job of highlighting teen problems.

Everyone wants to be popular, good looking and smart. But most of all, everyone wants not to be afraid.

The last scene wasn’t much of a surprise considering Bee was already too deep into the rituals. She’s been doing it ever since she was a kid so no doubt she had some powers like immortality.

Watching this movie is a great way to spend a boring day.

Scare scale: 3.5/5