MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

JamieWJackson This had potential, and it actually did realize some of it. However, the dialog is hard to hear in places, and the editing is just bizarre, several times jumping from a tense moment straight to another scene without resolving anything.My biggest objection, though, is more fundamental: for the first two-thirds or so of the movie, the fascinating "babysitter" seems to have some kind of supernatural... something. It's never clarified what, but she seems to be almost mesmerizing people on occasion; at another moment, she is unfazed by a car nearly hitting her, almost as though she is in control of the situation more than the driver is. Then in the last third or so, that "something" seems to vanish and she is just a crazy young woman.Zimbalist is captivatingly beautiful here and seems game to bring her character to life, and the other players are all fine in their roles. However, the story just doesn't quite make sense in spots and the relationships feel hurky-jerky. A bit more time invested into the writing would have helped, as would a better job on the sound mixing and the editing. Lacking those things, I can only give this a 4, as I ended up just wondering what the point of this was. Still, if you're a fan of stalker/psycho movies, or of Shatner or Zimbalist (or anyone else here), you will probably enjoy this at least a little bit.

MovieAddict2016 First things first: There's no baby in this movie, and it's not about a babysitter. So why did they call it "The Babysitter"? I don't know. Because of the drugs the cast and crew were taking, maybe? (I suspect acid, but maybe downers, just to ease the pain of knowing they were starring in such an awful movie.) It's about a family torn apart by a ruthless housesitter with a secretive past. Yes, a HOUSEsitter. Not a BABYsitter. Unless a balding, wig-wearing Will "I Used to Be Famous, Look at Me Now" Shatner counts as a big blubbering baby. He certainly acts like one in this movie. So either it's a smart satire with a self-referential title... or the writer just forgot that it's not about any babies. Or babysitters. (I just can't stress this fact enough!) The housesitter is a sexy 18-year-old seductress, a bit like Drew Barrymore in "Poison Ivy," only not quite as demented. She tries to seduce William Shatner, and he refuses her advances after she pokes fun at him a little bit. Aww, poor baby! (FYI, I wouldn't have cared if she called me scum of the earth!) The Hungarian director Peter Medak has a resume filled with TV movies and television shows. After seeing this it's not surprising he hasn't been able to graduate to the big screen successfully yet.The characters are lame and underdeveloped, the plot is all over the place; scenes lack cohesion and seem to jump back and forth with no real point. I.e. we'll be watching William Shatner talking to some guy and suddenly - whoa! We're in a house! And then we're back to William Shatner! And now we're staring at a cow in a green pasture! (Oh wait, it's just William Shatner.) Don't bother with this. It isn't worth the time.

brandonsites1981 Couple (Patty Duke and William Shatner) hires an orphaned teenage girl (Stephanie Zimbalist) with a dark and mysterious past as a nanny. At first she is perfect and keeps there house in top shape and makes life much easier for the couple, but as time goes on she becomes destructive and turns Duke and Shatner against one another and the house is becoming a total mess. She then starts to show her true colors and people start to drop like flies. Sometimes haunting and disturbing TV film is given lush direction and entertains untill it crumbles apart at the end. Zimbalist makes a good psycho, but Shatner is miscast.Not Rated; Violence.

r_steele8287 Well, I bought this movie for the fact that Stephanie Zimbalist (Laura Holt of Remington Steele) played a leading role in it. Everything I had seen of hers was pretty good so far, and I'm a Remington addict, so I figured this would be good as well. I was mistaken. It wasn't exactly garbage. If written differently, it could've been a really good movie. The category in which it's categorized is all wrong as well. This is definitely not a suspense or horror film. There was no blood or gore, which is what I describe a horror film as to be. As far as suspenseful goes, it almost meets that category, as I said, if written better. My opinion, the writing stunk. The storyline could've been extremely better. It's definitely not a movie you'd view more than once, IMO.