I want the sitter to kill them all (Spoilers)
Most of the people in the film were so stupid that the quality of the human race would undoubtedly be better had the sitter killed them all. The behaviors of the parents, in particular, were so idiotic that I couldn’t help rooting for the sitter. Unfortunately, the people who were smarter (e.g., the mother of that horny teenager and the wife’s best friend) got killed while the most stupid among them survived.
First of all, neither the husband nor the wife questioned the wisdom of choosing an 18 year-old hottie as live-in babysitter, when she liked to walk around in the house scantily dressed and remove her undies near the window when the boy next door was looking. Unfortunately, for a TV movie you can’t expect any American Beauty scene, and judging from her looks she wouldn’t have much to reveal anyway. The husband’s business partner immediately suggested to him the possible implications of having this hottie in the house. However, he remained totally unsuspecting even after the sitter “accidentally” walked out of the bathroom half-naked, and gave him a “free massage” when his wife was not at home! Was he really so stupid, or did he just want some “free lunch”?
The husband’s stupidity was surpassed only by that of his wife. Was she so naive that she didn’t suspect something between her husband and the sitter? Her best friend and the woman next door were all suspicious of the girl. Her friend even took the trouble to check the girl’s history. Shouldn’t that be the first thing the couple should have done themselves before hiring her? The wife, however, continued to dismiss the others’ suspicions and defend the sitter even after she fell down the stairs. Didn’t she (or her husband) notice that three people had died under strange circumstances within weeks after the sitter moved in? It was largely due to the wife’s stupidity and refusal to listen to good advice that the other two women died. I couldn’t wait for the sitter to finish her off, and needless to say I expected to be (and was) disappointed. The film was clichéd from beginning to end. Since in this type of movie the whole family had to survive to get a “happy” ending, their friends and the sitter obviously had to die. The sitter was one of those “talking killers” that Roger Ebert had identified as one of most common movie clichés. After killing the wife’s best friend by breaking her neck, the sitter obviously should have known that she had to kill the wife and probably the children too. But instead of doing that immediately, she told a long story to the husband and gave the wife the opportunity to stab her.
Most of the other people in the film were stupid too. The police did not suspect foul play for any of the three deaths. The coroner was unable to distinguish between a wound caused by a spade from one caused by a broken windshield in a car accident. Apparently, the scriptwriter had not watched any episode of CSI.