{"id":7171,"date":"2020-09-16T19:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T01:30:19","slug":"the-babysitter-killer-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7171","title":{"rendered":"The Babysitter: Killer Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It took me so long to watch The Babysitter<\/a> after I stuck it in my Netflix queue that they made a sequel! And it came out only like three months later. Go timing?<\/p>\n

Things I liked about The Babysitter: Killer Queen<\/a>, a short list:<\/p>\n

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  1. Claiming all the evidence of the murderous satanic cult was erased and everyone thinks Cole[1] made the whole story up? Bold! There’s definitely a sense that they might be right, and maybe he’s just a little bit<\/em> crazy, and that sense lingers beyond the recap intro mood-setting scenes at the beginning.<\/li>\n
  2. Still funny, in a goofy over-the-top way that I don’t see enough outside of movies templated like Scott Pilgrim vs. Whoever, which take their goofiness way too seriously. This does not do that. Once again, my compliments to the letterer.<\/li>\n
  3. It finds the humor in way way too much gore that does not exist in the right amount of gore. You can’t really be in this movie without getting a faceful of blood spray, which is at this point the fart joke of horror movies, except way funnier than farts, because someone just died.<\/li>\n
  4. Okay, that last thing doesn’t exactly make sense, but here we are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thing I didn’t like about it, a shorter list:<\/p>\n

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    1. The title, which has exactly zero semantic meaning. It’s cool that they used the song, but no, not a good enough excuse. If you don’t have an actually clever title, just call it The Babysitter 2 and get over yourself.<\/li>\n
    2. The moral of the movie scene, not because it had a “moral”, but because they thought they earned the payoff the moral describes, and I’m really not convinced they did. Same thing as above, don’t forcefeed me a moral. If you earn it, cool, but if not, you’re a damn horror movie. Don’t have<\/em> a moral. That’s okay here more than literally anywhere else!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you liked the first one, check it out. If you didn’t, you won’t, and if you are in the supermajority of people who have no opinion here, this movie isn’t enough to tilt the balance one way or another.<\/p>\n

      [1] Cole is the kid from the first movie who was babysat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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