Anyway, Judah is a school pariah, but his old friend Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind) still likes him, and perhaps really likes him, but instead, of course, she’s dating loudmouth jerk Jimmy (Maximilian Acevedo). Every generation needs its cheeseball raunch comedies, I guess, and perhaps undiscriminating teenagers will dig this stuff.
The horror part of this horror/comedy takes a little while to get in gear, and the latter portion aims squarely for the lowest common denominator from the start VD and masturbation are brought up within the first 10 minutes. And when all else fails, which is often, they throw in another vintage film reference or past top 10 hit. THE BABYSITTER: KILLER QUEEN, which had no less than four screenwriters including McG, clearly strains to come up with a reasonable follow-up, mostly settling for rehashing its predecessor and throwing a bunch of gore and profanity against the wall to see what sticks. The original BABYSITTER was no great shakes, but at least it had the great Samara Weaving as its lead villainess and a fairly focused storyline. Later on, someone says of that James Cameron blockbuster, “It’s one of the four sequels in cinematic history that supersedes the original,” which is exactly not the kind of line a sequel like this one should contain. In the present day, no one believes the stories that Cole, now a high-school junior, has told about what happened that horrible night, leading him to lament, “I feel like Sarah Connor in TERMINATOR 2.”
THE BABYSITTER TWO MOVIE
Not that the movie ever needs a reason for such a needle-drop it is positively slathered with gratuitous, random pop songs on the soundtrack and incessant movie/music namechecks in the dialogue. It doesn’t really have anything to do with a killer queen either, slapping on that subtitle as an excuse to play the Freddie Mercury hit over a key scene. Two years ago in movie time and three years ago in release time, after Cole Johnson (Judah Lewis) defeated the title character of THE BABYSITTER and her demon-cultist followers, he said, “I don’t need a babysitter anymore.” Apparently, neither did the makers of THE BABYSITTER: KILLER QUEEN, including returning director McG, as the sequel’s scenario barely involves a child-carer. Written by Dan Lagana, Brad Morris, Jimmy Warden and McG Starring Judah Lewis, Emily Alyn Lind and Jenna Ortega
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