So it was really a melting pot of experiences that we got to pull from to make this story. And what was so cool is that we have a team of queer people working on it from all the creative angles - our producers, writers, directors, and actors are all queer. THE BABYSITTERS is a reprehensible movie about a shy 17-year-old high school senior, Shirley who starts a prostitute ring among her friends to service the fathers of the children for whom they babysit. They were so excited about the idea and they were so supportive throughout the whole creative process. ![]() So when I went to Hallmark with this, their reaction was absolutely 100 percent, over-the-top supportive. And that's what I really wanted to show because I really wanted people like me to feel represented when they watched Countdown to Christmas on Hallmark. And the reason we have to tell it is because we haven't seen this yet, and we have to make sure that we show this." There have been a lot of different stories of queer people on Hallmark Channel, but we had yet to see two men fall in love at Christmas. And so I went to Hallmark and said, "Hey, I want to tell this story. And I wanted to make it funny, and I wanted it to have a ton of heart. What I wanted to do at Hallmark Channel was tell a story with two men as the main characters falling in love at the holidays. But the core nugget was my love for the '80s movies like Buck. Since then it took a lot of different twists and turns and kind of creatively became something different. They're like, "You should do a movie where you have to take care of these kids." And that turned into me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie with John Candy that I grew up on, and I kind of put those ideas together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay?" And that's kind of how the movie was born. It's fine." And so that kind of inspired the idea. They're like, "Yes, they can have a bagel. can they go to craft service? What are they allowed to have?" And they would just laugh. I would spend time with the kids on set, and the parents would crack up because I didn't really understand how kids worked. ![]() One, when I was shooting a different holiday movie for Hallmark in Utah, I became friends with the family that owned the house where we were shooting, and they had four kids. Maybe the new Goth girl, fresh from “juvie” and named “Phoebe” (Jenna Ortega) can help.JONATHAN BENNETT: The core nugget of The Holiday Sitter came from two things. “What can I say? The Devil gives good head!” He and we are puzzled when Allison ( Bella Thorne), Sonya ( Hana Mae Lee) and John ( Andrew Bachelor), among others, show up for more ritualistic “play.” Didn’t we see Allison’s head explode in a shotgun blast last time out? ![]() And damned if the SAME murderous things go down, with many of the same villains. The only “friend” who could verify the events of that awful, blood-stained night they survived two years ago is Mel ( Emily Alyn Lind), the school hottie who refuses to ding her rep by confirming his worst nightmare was true.Īs consolation, she invites him to a Teens Gone Wild houseboat party down on Lake Mead or Lake Powell (in the desert). “Killer Queen” has our once-babysat fraidy-cat Cole ( Judah Lewis) coping with high school bullies, parents ( Leslie Bibb, Ken Marino) who never believed his babysitter was mistress of a Devil Book cult. He even got to do a “Terminator” sequel.Īnd here he is, just a couple of years after getting that AARP card in the mail, producing and directed a little TV here and there and making disposable shlock-shock comedies for Netflix. Granted, in this “post-director” filmmaking environment, where you’re either a legend or just this week’s hack who talks a good game and works cheap (Russo Brothers, cough cough), just finding steady work is a challenge.īut McG, real name Joseph McGinty Nicol, directed “We Are Marshall.” He survived the Cameron/Lucy/Drew “Charlie’s Angels” franchise (barely). The sequel, in which finding fresh slasher comedy laughs shows, first scene to last, isn’t anything to skip (home) school for.Īnd there’s just enough down time, –in between the frenetic butchery, manic off-color one-liners, teens behaving badly, teachers cursing students and parents taking bong hits while they play VR “Halo” - to ponder the imponderable. ![]() “The Babysitter: Killer Queen” is a sequel to the teen death-cult comedy “The Babysitter,” which all the cool kids gathered round the TV to “Netflix” back in 2017.
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