Continuing with that theme, The Babysitter: Killer Queen is very reminiscent of Home Alone II: Lost in New York, in that it remixes the successful format of the original with a change in location, but spends most of the film re-treading familiar story beats to give viewers more of what they liked the first time around. In my review for The Babysitter, I compared the film to Home Alone, in that it featured a young kid defending himself against intruders in his home.
#BEE THE BABYSITTER MOVIE#
Whilst the logic was a bit iffy, it is a familiar horror movie trope and it allowed for some interesting character development to run alongside the usual gore and one-liners – the same juxtaposition of heartfelt earnestness and gross-out comedy that served the original well. It just seemed like a way to reset the status quo slightly, whilst giving Cole some more existential angst to work through in the movie.
This element was the most frustrating part of the film for me as it didn’t quite make sense given that a) there were numerous corpses to back up his story and b) his parents had met Bee and knew she existed. Set two years after the original, The Babysitter: Killer Queen focuses on Cole in his Junior Year of High School as he struggles to come to terms with the traumatic events of the first movie and the fact that everyone thinks he made it up. Samara Weaving played her in the original, and after experiencing a sudden rise in popularity due to films such as: Ready or Not and Bill & Ted Face the Music, it appeared that she was unavailable for this sequel. I had low expectations going in, as horror movie sequels often have diminishing returns and after watching the trailer it looked like Bee, the titular Babysitter from the first movie, was not expected to appear. Released on Netflix in October 2017, The Babysitter was a guilty pleasure of mine when I reviewed it earlier this year so I was intrigued when it was announced that it was getting a sequel, especially considering most of the cast were returning despite being killed off in hideously gruesome ways in the original. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.
Synopsis: Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he’s living another nightmare: high school. Starring: Judah Lewis, Emily Alyn Lind, Robbie Amell & Bella Thorne & Samara Weaving
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