Babysitter Wanted

Babysitter Wanted is a 2008 American horror film directed by Jonas Barnes & Michael Manasseri, and written by Barnes. The film stars Sarah Thompson as a babysitter who is seemingly stalked while babysitting a strange child in a remote house in northern California.

Babysitter Wanted
Promotional poster
Directed byMichael Manasseri
Jonas Barnes
Produced byKimberley Kates
Michael Manasseri
Written byJonas Barnes
Starring
Music byKurt Oldman
CinematographyAlex Vendler
Edited byStephen Eckelberry
Production
company
Big Screen Entertainment Group
Distributed byBig Screen Entertainment Group
Release date
  • July 16, 2008 (2008-07-16) (Fantasia Festival)
  • February 6, 2009 (2009-02-06) (United States)
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Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A new life is starting for Angie, who’s leaving the embrace of her religious mother in Bakersfield for college studies in Yreka. She applies for a babysitting job after realizing she will need to find a job to support herself in college. She finds herself on a remote farm with the Stanton family and their strange but adorable little boy, Sam. However, Angie’s first night of work might just be her last.

Alone in the vast and sprawling house, anonymous phone calls begin to shatter her peace of mind. The calls soon turn into a face to face confrontation with a hulking beast of a man who breaks through the front door. Angie must fight for her life to protect herself and Sam. She then realizes that Sam is a child born of the devil, and the man who broke in was a priest that discovered the family's horrible secret. Sam's mother and father return home and they reveal they are just as evil, concealing their possessed child's secret with a hat to hide his horns and feeding him babysitters they reel in, and Angie is one of the babysitters.

They hold Angie hostage, and she manages to fight back for a while. When the police arrive, Angie, with the help of an officer, kills the mother and father. Sam appears, kills the officer, and chases Angie into the barn where she seemingly defeats him as well. Angie wakes up in a hospital and the police inform her they did not find a little boy, much to Angie's horror. It is then shown that Sam is alive, now with another family, with the mother putting up flyers for a needed babysitter.

Cast

Production

It was produced by Kimberley Kates and Stephen Eckelberry for Big Screen Entertainment Group.[2] Big Screen Entertainment Group produced the film under the direction of Barnes and Manasseri on the filming locations in Lake Shastina, Montague, Weed and Yreka, California.[3]

Soundtrack

The score was composed by Swiss Musician Kurt Oldman.[4]

Release

On February 23, 2009 had a limited theatrical release.[5] The DVD and Blu-ray release is set for May 25, 2010.[6]

Reception

Scott Weinberg at FearNet.com called it "A more-than-passable 80-minute expenditure for the serious horror fans." [7]

Sarah Thompson's role as Angie Albright was awarded number 30 on Total Film's list of '50 Most Bad-Ass Female Horror Leads'.[8]

Awards

Winner of Best Feature at Weekend of Fear Festival in Nuremberg, Germany.[9] It was also accepted into competition at Fantasporto, Sitges, Hollywood Film Festival, Malaga Film Festival, Montreal's Fantasiafest.[10]

References
  1. "Babysitter Wanted Comes Home in May - Dread Central". 22 March 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  2. "Interview with Mike Manasseri, Director of Babysitter Wanted - VideoHound Blogs - VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  3. "What town was the movie Babysitter Wanted filmed in? - ChaCha". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  4. "Babysitter Wanted Original Score: A Musical Review". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  5. "Babysitter Wanted Goes Theatrical! - Dread Central". 19 January 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  6. "Chiller". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  7. Scott Weinberg (July 8, 2010). "'Babysitter Wanted' DVD Review - FEARnet". FearNet.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  8. "Total Film - GamesRadar+". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  9. BABYSITTER WANTED ab November neu auf DVD und Blu-ray!
  10. "Ubisoft Presents Fantasia 2008 - Films + Schedule - Babysitter Wanted". Retrieved 4 November 2016.
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