In a small college town, a young girl working on a babysitting job in a rural farm is terrorized throughout the night.In a small college town, a young girl working on a babysitting job in a rural farm is terrorized throughout the night.In a small college town, a young girl working on a babysitting job in a rural farm is terrorized throughout the night.
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Cristie Schoen Codd
- Dazed Girl
- (as Cristie Schoen)
Miriam Gonzalez
- Nurse
- (as Miriam Gonzales)
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- TriviaSarah Thompson plays Angie Albright, who states her age as eighteen. Sarah was born in October 1979, actually making her twenty-nine at the time of filming.
- GoofsEven though the movie was set in Northern California, the area codes that are listed on the school bulletin board are 310 and 503. Both area codes are for Los Angeles and Northern Oregon respectively. Also, they used real prefixes rather than the movie version of 555.
- Quotes
Sam Stanton: [repeating line] Hungry!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Babysitter Wanted: Behind the Scenes (2009)
- SoundtracksFading in C# Minor
Written by Richard Larsen, Jennifer M. Cook, Eddie Barajas
Performed by UNA
Featured review
Babysitter Wanted starts off like pretty much every other babysitter in peril film you've probably already seen: a pretty, virginal high-school student takes a child-minding job in a remote house in the boondocks, where she experiences creepy noises, power outages, and mysterious phone-calls, before eventually being attacked by person or persons unknown. In short, it's about as formulaic as a horror film can get.
If you begin to bemoan this film's predictability, though, you're playing right into the hands of its makers, whose seemingly uninspired set-up exists only to catch the viewer off guard with one hell of a curve-ball halfway through: just as the film couldn't get any more predictable, writer/director Jonas Barnes pulls the metaphorical rug from under his viewers feet with an audacious plot development that has to be seen to be believed.
With his illusion of banality well and truly shattered, Barnes is finally free to explore new territory, but despite the introduction of some welcome black humour, a few well conceived moments of tension and a spot of surprisingly gruesome gore, the film never fully capitalises on its rather bonkers mid-point revelation. If only the madness had escalated exponentially from that point on rather than just kicking up a gear and staying there, I'm sure we'd have had another bona fide horror classic on our hands—after all, nothing succeeds like excess!
If you begin to bemoan this film's predictability, though, you're playing right into the hands of its makers, whose seemingly uninspired set-up exists only to catch the viewer off guard with one hell of a curve-ball halfway through: just as the film couldn't get any more predictable, writer/director Jonas Barnes pulls the metaphorical rug from under his viewers feet with an audacious plot development that has to be seen to be believed.
With his illusion of banality well and truly shattered, Barnes is finally free to explore new territory, but despite the introduction of some welcome black humour, a few well conceived moments of tension and a spot of surprisingly gruesome gore, the film never fully capitalises on its rather bonkers mid-point revelation. If only the madness had escalated exponentially from that point on rather than just kicking up a gear and staying there, I'm sure we'd have had another bona fide horror classic on our hands—after all, nothing succeeds like excess!
- BA_Harrison
- Aug 23, 2011
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