The Wrong Babysitter

The Wrong Babysitter

Directed by George Mendeluk

Produced by Gilles LaPlante

201789 min5.0 / 10

A tense thriller about a mother's desperate race to rescue her kidnapped daughter from a deceptive neighbor, haunted by echoes of her husband's unsolved death.

A recent kidnapping has single mom Susan worried about leaving her daughter Christy at home for an out-of-town trip - until neighbor Teri offers to "babysit," looking in on Christy and spending the night. But Susan rushes home when Christy goes missing, under circumstances reminiscent of her police detective husband's death. Susan will have to open the past wound of her husband's death in order to rescue the only family she has left.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Wrong Babysitter scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Is The Wrong Babysitter easy watching? Barely. Less comforting than 86% of films.

  • Is The Wrong Babysitter violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is The Wrong Babysitter sad? Yes. More sad than 75% of films.

  • Does The Wrong Babysitter end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

9/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity22

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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