SPOILER ALERT: the following article contains massive spoilers, including the ending. If you have not yet seen the movie, proceed at your own risk!
A well-made slasher film will have a sense of timelessness to it, no matter how dated the camerawork and the special effects have become or how the social and pop-cultural tropes that the plot is built upon don’t apply in a modern setting. This is why there is still a massive audience for the B-movies of the 1970s and 1980s, with more and more new fans discovering films like ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’, ‘Friday the 13th’, and ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ with every passing year. One of Netflix’s most prominent feature-length offerings in recent years, ‘The Babysitter’, perfectly fits the mold. Directed by McG (‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘This Means War’), it deftly balances between being a teen comedy and a slasher horror. SPOILERS AHEAD.