Review of Babysitter Wanted (2007) by Sarah P — 07 Sep 2009

This is a fantastic movie. It starts out like most babysitter horror stories. A girl, Angie (played by Sarah Thompson, from the TV show Angel) moves to a new town, to go to college. As she is getting acquainted with the town, some things don't seem quite right, for example, there is a suspicious man who seems to following her.

She decides to take a babysitting job that is a little way out of town. On her first night of babysitting (like in most films like this) her car breaks down, so she gets a ride from a friend. She is now stranded, outside of town, in a house she doesn't know.

This is when (again, like most of these kind of movies) the suspicious man who had been following her appears outside of the house. After (the standard) chasing, running, and screaming, this film changes; it breaks from the standard.

It breaks so cleanly, infact, that it is one of the best films I have seen in a long time. I won't reveal the twist, but I will say that it is awesome. What starts out as a cookie cutter babysitter film evolves, and transforms into a fantastic, astonishing film.