The Babysitter (2017)
Director: McG
Writer: Brian Duffield
| Judah Lewis | ... | ||
| Samara Weaving | ... | ||
| Robbie Amell | ... | ||
| Hana Mae Lee | ... | ||
| Bella Thorne | ... |
“The Babysitter” is a tale of a boy and his babysitter.
Cole is in love with his hot babysitter (Samara Weaving). They are good friends
who laugh, dance and make merry. But alas, Cole is just a boy and the babysitter wants to hang out with her satanic cult friends. After sending Cole to
bed, the teens play Truth or Dare which leads to a gruesome satanic death. Cole
is discovered peeping on the party and dragged downstairs. The rest of the
movie has Cole running from the teens and trying to outsmart Satan’s minions.
Much blood and brain matter will splatter throughout the house before the night
is through.
I’ll give you three guesses as to what my favorite scene
was. No, make that one guess. Actually there’s no need to guess as it would be
the same scene any B-movie maniac would have loved. Or maybe it’s just me. But
I couldn’t help but feel a kinship with young Cole. As he spies on his
babysitter at the top of the stairs, the teens begin to play a game of Truth or
Dare. Some genius dares her to kiss everyone. This leads to a prolonged kiss
with the other babe of the bunch, (Bella Thorne as The Cheerleader), which is
captured in slow motion to the 80’s song “I Want Candy”. Cole and I understand
each other. We are both voyeurs and loving every second of it.
What I’ve described above is affectionately known in cinema
as the “Male Gaze”. The Male Gaze theory tells us that images in film are there
for the male, (drooling B-movie guy), to enjoy and perhaps get some sexual
pleasure from merely watching, (Voyeurism or Scopophilia if you will). If you
saw Megan Fox in “Transformers” fix Bumblebee’s crank shaft, you know what I’m
talking about. “The Babysitter” is a proud representative of the Male Gaze as we look longingly and achingly at every
move Samara Weaving makes, (and Bella Thorne too in the aforementioned make-out
scene).
This is all my way of telling you that “The Babysitter” is a
fine film. I recommend it. It has everything a male gazer needs. Babysitters.
Blood. Bella…The list goes on and on. This is prime Saturday night B-movie
extravaganza. Oh Samara, let me gaze upon thee.
SCORE: 3 out of 4 babysitter dares
Welcome back!
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ReplyDeleteKeep this going please, great job!
ReplyDeleteMan! You're back! Now I know what movies to watch again! I haven't watched any since 2014 because of your absence. Okay, not really, but good to see your stuff again.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It's been too long. I feel the need...the need for sleaze.
ReplyDeleteThis has become my second favorite lesbian kissing scene of all time. The gum play at the end really puts it over the top for me. I'm surprised this scene is not more famous. It's not even posted on subreddits very often. I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteI also remember a year or two before the release, Bella Thorne was describing this scene and talking like people were going to lose their mind: "It's going to be a lot to deal with." Didn't happen. I mean, it gets mentioned/criticized in reviews, but there was no major storm. Not even on twitter. Surprising.
ReplyDeleteOne of the very few times an actress hyped up a sexy scene beforehand and it actually delivered.
One last tidbit: The kiss was not in the original script.
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