Babysitter Wanted(2007)
2007 · Jonas Barnes & Michael Manasseri · 93 min
When she takes a job babysitting a young boy for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling outside the windows. Angie gets the drop on the would-be killer, but quickly discovers that her nightmare has just begun.
Horror · Thriller
5.5201 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How Babysitter Wanted scares
It starts small and quiet, with a lone babysitter settling into a job at an isolated farmhouse, then slowly tightens as odd phone calls and a prowling stranger outside the windows start chipping away at her sense of safety. The back half turns into a tense cat-and-mouse ordeal, with the threat closing in and the danger becoming direct and physical rather than just suggested. There's a decent amount of blood and rough violence once things escalate, and the scares lean on both slow dread and sudden jolts. It's a good pick if you like babysitter-in-danger thrillers with an isolated setting and don't mind some nasty violence along the way.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Babysitter Wanted rates psychological 3/5, visceral 4/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 75 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 55 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, uneasy setup gradually tightens into stalking tension before building to a hard, sustained scramble through the back half.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4.
How scary is Babysitter Wanted?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Babysitter Wanted rates 3/5 — solidly scary, balancing creeping dread with well-placed shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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