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(SPOILERS) Gave its own twist away way early?

posted 13 years ago by Clem_DeFontane
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1.The physical blu ray disc features a picture of a little kid's silhouette behind a red wagon full of babysitter parts.

2. The blu ray menu sports the not-so-subtle slogan "You thought you knew the urban legend."

3. The beginning of the movie makes a HUGE deal out of her deep Christian beliefs, so there was no doubt it was going to pit her against the Devil..

4. After the opening scene, the stacks and stacks of nondescript containers of dark red meat in the family's fridge are obviously not Lunchables.

1-4 above all happen before the twist is revealed, arguably when the man in black is flipped over and we see his priest collar.

There was just no way that this was going to be the standard babysitter-stalker movie that it seems to try to make you think it is throughout its first half. This movie probably would have ruled if it had successfully kept its secret until the girl flipped the priest over.

1-2 are marketing bummers, for sure, but they can't expect that they've kept their secret until the right moment after having written 3-4 into the movie.

Agreements/disagreements?

[–] sburt4-831-484347 13 years ago

SPOILERS:

I couldn't agree more with The physical blu ray disc features a picture of a little kid's silhouette behind a red wagon full of babysitter parts.

Too much information and that is before the movie even began!!!!! I did like the horns though. Nice touch.

I knew the kid was demonic, I wasn't 100% sure what the parents deal was so that was a little bit of surprise that the husband was killing the young women.

I knew the man was there to kill the child, did not know he was a priest.

I overall liked the film but might of even liked it more without the spoilers.

[–] Jia-Di 13 years ago

i just watched it and at first well i thought she was just a christian child who never been out there so. For me what gave it away was when she was preparing his special "diet".

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[–] autumnboyq 13 years ago

I didn't see any marketing for this so 1-2 didn't affect me (though I find marketers screw up ad campaigns for movies ALL THE TIME). I figured her being a Christian would figure in, but didn't think of the devil specifically. And in terms of #4, he was obviously eating something disgusting, but I liked that there were little hints that something bigger than a standard stalker flick was happening. Didn't figure any of it out, and considering my expectations were Zero, I was greatly pleasantly surprised. And surprised I had never heard of it until my BF got it thru Netflix!

[–] Ginnn 13 years ago

so let me guess, you thought nice things will happen in a film called Babysitter Wanted from horror genre? morons, all of you.

[–] Fitch92 13 years ago

I'm with one of the posters above. I also didn't see any marketing for this movie. I just saw it on here and thought it sounded good.

I actually didn't know what the deal was until the priest started shaking the kid and saying "Evil! Evil!"

When she was preparing his food, I thought the family was canibalistic, but I never thought anything supernatural was going on. I thought the movie was about a babysitter being stalked, and not about the devil's son.......

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[–] hobbit_mania 12 years ago

All of the red meat was kind of the give away. Plus the kid was acting just a little too creepy in the beginning. If they made the kid seem a little more normal at first, it would have done a better job of throwing the audience off. As soon as she spotted all the meat, it hit me. "He eats babysitters, duh."

I'm surprised they didn't have the parents constantly pushing food on Angie to fatten her up.

[–] TerrorDementia 12 years ago

I didn't think it was Human Meat until they specifically said it.

Humans are The Other White Meat. None of the people I've ever packaged looked as red as the stuff that was in the fridge.

[–] SpareEricDevil 8 years ago

I kind wish Parents under of spell which let them fatten any girls up once they eaten any food go from 120pounds to 400p, Also wish Angie was Butched after Dumb Blonde Girl Butched into Yummy Meat for Devil Son.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 8 years ago

The movie wasn't really trying to hide the twist, you're supposed to know something is up since the kid doesn't talk and eats nothing but red meat that's still bleeding. Add to that the Christianity background and you can kind of tell where it's going.

Super lame that the menu and disc say so much though. They didn't even let the movie have that minuscule amount of fun with the audience. Shame.