![]() ![]() Instead of taking the piss out of genre conventions like the first film, there are literal jokes about taking a piss. Gone is the clever wit of the original, replaced by the lowest of low-brow humour. The ludicrous amount of blood on display is highly laughable, which is actually to the benefit of The Babysitter: Killer Queen as you will be hard-pressed to actually find anything else to laugh at. Cue lots of running and screaming and people dying in literal volcanic eruptions of crimson viscera. Tough cookie new student Phoebe (Jenna Ortega), who has her own mysterious reasons be at the lake, is dragged into Cole’s recurring nightmare when she stumbles into the whole bloody affair. When the nebbish Cole finds out about their plans though, he decides to take Melanie up on her rebellious offer to ditch school and instead spend a night partying at the local lake with her friends.īut what is supposed to be Cole letting off some steam, turns into another orgy of violence when the old blood cult – perennially shirtless Max (Robbie Amell), ditzy airhead Allison (Bella Thorne), fast-talking John (Andrew Bachelor), and creepy weirdo Sonya (Hana Mae Lee) – somehow return from the dead, with some new cult recruits in tow. ![]() Cole’s status as social pariah stems from the fact that after killing Bee and her band of douchebag cultists in self-defence, all their bodies and the gory evidence of their actions had mysteriously disappeared, leaving everybody to think that Cole just made it all up.Įven his embarrassingly goofy parents (Leslie Bibb and Ken Marino) don’t believe him and are even considering sending him to a special psychiatric academy. Set two years after the events of The Babysitter, Killer Queen finds Cole as a three-piece suit-wearing high school outcast whose only friend is Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind), his cute neighbour from the first film who seemingly still has a crush on him despite now also boasting a meathead boyfriend of her own. As much as I enjoyed the hell out of the first film – which saw nerdy pre-teen Cole (Judah Lewis) discover that his super-cool babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving) is actually the leader of a satanic cult who wants to drain his veins in a blood ritual – this frantic trying-too-hard sequel proves that 2020 is out to ruin everything you love. Bloody terrible, if you want to be more appropriate to this gory failure. There’s unfortunately no other way to say it: The Babysitter: Killer Queen, director McG’s follow-up to his 2017 Netflix horror-comedy surprise hit, is terrible.
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