dougdoepke
A teenage babysitter seduces a middle-age assistant DA, causing trouble with his wife, and also causing him to be blackmailed by a biker's girl who wants her guy acquitted of murder charges.Sure, the flick never rises above cheap exploitation. And I could have done without hints of masochistic sex. Still, the 70-minutes is rather competently made considering its campy genre. The editing is smoothly done, the settings well-chosen, while Carey and Bellamy do well as the quarreling married couple. Even the plot manages a few wrinkles beyond the clichéd teen-age temptress and older man. Too bad Wymer (Candy) looks the part, but has trouble with her lines. There's also a 60's counter-culture subtext where Candy tempts middle-age George with the hippie credo of "free love". George finds this seductive, as did many of his buttoned-down generation. Anyway, for fans of 36-C and 38-D, there's ample exposure. Otherwise, it's drive-in forgettable.
Uriah43
"George Maxwell" (George E. Carey) is a mild-mannered Assistant District Attorney who has been given the task of prosecuting a motorcycle gang member for committing the horrific murder of a young woman. His wife, "Edith Maxwell" (Anne Bellamy) has gone completely frigid after having a baby 8 months earlier and as a result George is both lonely and frustrated. It's at this time that Edith hires a sexy babysitter named "Candy Wilson" (Patricia Wymer) who promptly goes about trying to seduce George. At first George is able to maintain his discipline but eventually he succumbs to Candy's charms and things take an immediate turn for the worse after that. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this particular film was one of eight included in a DVD set titled ""Drive-in Cult Classics, Volume 3" which contains motion pictures typically seen at drive-ins in the 60's and 70's. In most cases these movies were at best grade-B offerings meant to partially augment the lack of quality films available to drive-ins during this time. Most of them are low-budget, sexploitation projects and this particular film is no exception. Although filmed in black-and-white, this specific movie has a couple of things going for it which raises it a notch or two higher than some of the other pictures of this type. First, it has the luscious actress Patricia Wymer in a leading role and she practically carries this film all by herself. Additionally, George E. Carey performs in a professional manner which also helps this movie to a lesser extent. In short, while this certainly isn't a great movie by any means, I found it to be satisfactory for the most part and I rate it as about average.
NickStricharchuk
The Babysitter: A hen-pecked prosecuting attorney begins an affair with his blonde bombshell of a babysitter--the aptly named Candy. Candy, by the way, says things like: "Wow, man--I totally dig you--you really turn me on!" and "Ciao, baby!" Unfortunately, a murder case he's working on involving a motorcycle gang prompts the gang leader's "old lady" to blackmail him for her boyfriend's release. There is also a thin subplot involving the attorney's lesbian daughter. Patricia Wymer is smokin' hot as the bubbly, music-loving not-quite-a-hipster babysitter. Fun little movie! One of the best in the Drive-In Cult Classics collection.
Chris Haskell
I'm sitting here stunned after watching The Babysitter. This movie addresses nearly every controversial topic of morality: Adultery to begin with, but the list only begins there with everything from blindly loving a murderer, blackmail, under age trolling by an older married man, sexual assault, etc. etc. The fact that it covers the gamut of human indecencies isn't really what bothers me though, it's the matter- of-fact way that in which they are portrayed. I know, I know, it's just drive-in pulp, but it never allows the audience to be comfortable. There is a fair amount of soft-core sex in here, but it's not shot as passion, rather confused characters continuing to make bad decisions one after the other. The whole - having troubles at home? don't work em out, have an affair with a young chick who can promise you the moon - mentality is such an immature way of viewing an affair, and that's exactly what bothered me about this film. I think that it was written, produced, distributed, and moderately successful because this is a fantasy for people that they are not allowed to talk about openly. American Beauty, for example, is a beautiful film for many reasons, but mostly because you get to watch the protagonist struggle with his attraction. Not here, as Grandpa dives right in and loves him some young lovin.OK, so this is the wrong venue to get philosophical, but I just had to mention it because this film, more than a lot of the other drive-in trashy movies, dealt with issues of betrayal and hurt in a very raw, unfiltered way, and I am left to consider what it is I'm looking for in movies, and, as someone who is trying to write scripts, what it is people in general are looking for.Rating: 20/40