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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Title: Babysitter Wanted (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Tina Houtz | ... | Rebecca Miller |
| Sarah Thompson | ... | Angie Albright | |
| Nana Visitor | ... | Linda Albright | |
| Jillian Schmitz | ... | Erica | |
| Matt Dallas | ... | Rick | |
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Linda Neal | ... | Rebecca's Mother |
| Monty Bane | ... | Father Nicoletta | |
| Douglas Rowe | ... | Professor | |
| Bruce Thomas | ... | Jim Stanton | |
| Kristen Dalton | ... | Violet Stanton | |
| Kai Caster | ... | Sam Stanton | |
| Brett Claywell | ... | Hal | |
| Bill Moseley | ... | Chief Dinneli | |
| Jeff Markey | ... | Deputy Connor | |
| Cristie Schoen Codd | ... | Dazed Girl (as Cristie Schoen) | |
The religious teenager Angie Albright moves to a small town to study Art History in college. She finds a weird roommate and befriends the student and former altar boy Rick. Angie decides to babysit to raise money to buy a bed and she finds an advertisement to work at the distant Stanton Farm in the countryside. She is welcomed by Jim Stanton and his wife Violet that are seeking a babysitter for their son Sam and they make arrangements for Friday night. Meanwhile Angie has the sensation that someone is stalking her and she goes to the police station and reports to Chief Dinneli. On Friday night, Angie's car breaks and Rick gives a ride to Angie to go to the farm. When she is alone with Sam, a stranger breaks in the farmhouse and Angie saves Sam from the man. Soon she learns that she is in the house of evil and nothing is like she thought it would be. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
To suggest that this is a "rip off" of "When A Stranger Calls is ridiculous. The only reason I can imagine for people to say such a silly thing is that they didn't actually watch the movie beyond the first half hour or so. It's akin to saying Cemetery Gates ripped off Delamorte Dellamore because they're both about cemeteries. Ludicrous! Babysitter Wanted bears no resemblance to WASC or to Black Christmas (the classic 1974 horror movie that 'inspired' WASC in the first place). In fact, its unlike any horror movie I've seen before.
This is a fresh, innovative and surprising movie with a plot you will not see coming. The direction, cinematography, acting, character development, pacing, story, mystery development, action, and final scenes are all top notch and again I find myself baffled by the ratings given to movies on IMDb. They seem to be particularly out of whack in the horror genre for some strange and frustrating reason.
Anyway - the only real fault I can think of here is the music was sometimes too intrusive - but that's probably more a style issue. To me the use of loud crescendos and repetitive loud beats actually detracted from the tension or shock or horror of what was on screen rather than enhancing it. That's not to say the musical score was all bad, some of it was great. It was just something I noticed during some crucial scenes.
This movie deserves a rating of at least 7 and given that they produced such a gem of a killer thriller with buckets of horror and awesome kill scenes etc on a minimal budget it should easily get an 8. One of the best I've seen that's been made in the past few years.
DO yourself a favour and get hold of this beauty! (not for the squeamish tho!!)