Phil Slattery If you see this film on the shelf at your local video store, pick it up, read the summary and comments on the back of the case, put the DVD back, and walk off. The summary on the DVD case is interesting, but the film does not live up to its promise.The storyline: As mentioned, a college girl takes a job babysitting at a remote California ranch while the parents go out for 3-4 hours. The child, Sam, is about five years old and always wears a cowboy outfit and hat. He also has a special diet that mom keeps in its own containers in the fridge. After the parents have left, Sam awakes from his nap and wants to eat. The babysitter discovers that the containers contain cubes of raw meat. Just before the parents return, the child's hat comes off revealing two demonic horns. The parents subdue the babysitter and tie her up in the basement, while the dad brings in a girl they caught while out and butchers her while telling the babysitter that Sam will feed only on the flesh of young, virgin females and that the babysitter is next on the menu. Of course, over the remainder of the movie, the babysitter escapes, the parents are killed, a few minor subplots are resolved, and Sam, whom the babysitter thought she had killed, turns out to have escaped and has found new foster parents somewhere else. The basic storyline is rather cliché and the film builds the suspense slowly and deliberately, perhaps too slowly and deliberately. The set-up for the action takes too long in exploring the main character's good-girl religious background, which doesn't add anything significant to the story--other than setting up a justification for being a virgin, which could have been done more concisely anyway. The child being babysat is creepy, but in a corny (sometimes almost laughable) way. The movie would have been much improved if the writer(s) had had a more imaginative concept for Sam. I watched the movie starting at 2:00 a.m. and fell asleep for several minutes during the center section, but when I woke, I felt I hadn't missed anything worth going back for, so I continued on. It says something for a movie if you can miss several minutes of the central storyline and still know what's going on. There are some genuinely creepy and occasionally tense moments, so it's not all bad. It's worth watching if a friend (who doesn't have great taste in horror) pays for it and you're going to watch it at his/her place while making out. But for something you're going to pay for and watch on your own, there are better flicks. If you're part of a teen girls' church group having a sleepover at a member's house and you want to watch a horror film the pastor wouldn't approve after the member's parents have gone to bed, this is the film for you.The basic premise of the film, a babysitter sitting a child who turns out to be a demon, has potential if done in a more imaginative way, but this film just couldn't make that happen.

ashhub What a pleasant surprise ~ a really good horror with suspense and scares~First 20 minutes was a little slow but it picks up big~time~As long as you go with the flow and accept the plot developments for what they are then you will have a great time~It will have you squirming in your seat a few times ~ the gory moments are not gratuitous and i thought the balance was perfect~100 times better than the woeful Session 9 film i recently reviewed~If you like this film i would recommend Dread (2009) and if you want me to babysit please call 0666 666 666 666~

BA_Harrison Babysitter Wanted starts off like pretty much every other babysitter in peril film you've probably already seen: a pretty, virginal high-school student takes a child-minding job in a remote house in the boondocks, where she experiences creepy noises, power outages, and mysterious phone-calls, before eventually being attacked by person or persons unknown. In short, it's about as formulaic as a horror film can get.If you begin to bemoan this film's predictability, though, you're playing right into the hands of its makers, whose seemingly uninspired set-up exists only to catch the viewer off guard with one hell of a curve-ball halfway through: just as the film couldn't get any more predictable, writer/director Jonas Barnes pulls the metaphorical rug from under his viewers feet with an audacious plot development that has to be seen to be believed.With his illusion of banality well and truly shattered, Barnes is finally free to explore new territory, but despite the introduction of some welcome black humour, a few well conceived moments of tension and a spot of surprisingly gruesome gore, the film never fully capitalises on its rather bonkers mid-point revelation. If only the madness had escalated exponentially from that point on rather than just kicking up a gear and staying there, I'm sure we'd have had another bona fide horror classic on our hands—after all, nothing succeeds like excess!

Dandy_Desmond As a horror fan I am always on the look out for films that may have gone straight to DVD and are hidden classics waiting to be found. Sadly, Babysitter Wanted is not a classic. However it is an entertaining little exploitation flick that will satisfy gore hounds and those who like a bit of old school style. Basically the film is about a religious and wholesome girl who goes to college, then feels like she is being watched, takes a job as a babysitter in the middle of nowhere and then over the course of the night gets terrorised. Be warned, there is a twist in this movie and it may kill your interest stone dead. I liked the twist, however I didn't like the way it was carried out. First of all the twist. She is babysitting the devils son, with horns, a need for virgin flesh.. the lot. However once the twist is revealed I felt the film went downhill although I liked the idea. The film starts like Halloween and even the way the camera is used and the lighting reminds you of those 70s classic slasher movies.So the Babysitter is stalked and terrorised by a mysterious man outside trying to get in the house. Once the twist is revealed it moves onto Texas Chainsaw/Hostel/Saw territory and for some reason then ignores the devil kid and we have the dad giving a monologue to the babysitter as he is dismembering another girl rather graphically. I felt this was a bit tacked in, so it would be in line with other popular horrors around at the moment such as saw or hostel. This is where I felt the movie slide. The guy who plays the devils minder was rubbish, and the focus went away from the evil kid. The tone of the movie shifts from creepy to gory. The only other things that I could not let slip were the injuries. First of all the chief of police gets an axe in the back then gets up? Then the babysitter gets a knife rammed into her Achilles tendon then manages to stumble away. I know the movie is far fetched but you just wouldn't get up from that. Finally one thing that really gets me in some movies. Un necessary characters. At the beginning the babysitter meets a guy, you know the movie kind, he is blue eyed, handsome and just a damn nice fellow - they have a little date thing and she likes him, he likes her etc. He then gives her a lift to the house and goes back to fix her car which had broken down. We next meet him stuffed in the back of a car pretty much dead according the devils minder. Then he re appears at the end with a scratch on his head tending to the babysitter as she wakes up in hospital. What was the point of this guy? Anyway it was decent if you like a bit of torture porn, a bit of Halloween, a bit of Texas Chainsaw and a touch of the Omen.