Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

TheBlueHairedLawyer I love these classic made-for-TV mysteries, and if you're like me, you'll love the Babysitter. 18-year-old Joanna Redwine has been in the foster care system nearly her entire life, and is one day hired by a troubled family to be the babysitter. The husband Jeff is a cheater, his wife Liz an alcoholic, and their 12 year old daughter Tara doesn't go to school, has very little social skills and acts very babyish for her age. Joanna seems like a great influence, and they also meet the next door neighbors, the kindly doctor and his grandson Scotty. Joanna however has killed her foster family at home and wrapped them in plastic, and will kill again if she doesn't get the perfect family she's been dreaming of... One thing very disappointing is that the eerie and beautiful soundtrack for this great movie was never separately released. All the actors/actresses were amazing, the film remained captivating 'till the end and to add even more creepiness to it, the girl Tara, although twelve years old, carries around her imaginary friend, a beaten up old rag-doll with its eyes ripped right out. That doll haunted me as a kid when I first saw this movie. It's really worth watching, you'll be happy you did!

moonspinner55 Good acting by a solid cast makes this somewhat-familiar material worth slogging through, even though the issues it raises seem to get all fouled up. Patty Duke Astin plays a doctor's wife who has hired a mysterious young woman to care for her rather hapless daughter, which causes friction in their already-shaky household. Quinn Cummings, fresh off her stint on TV's "Family", has a few surprisingly strong scenes standing up to babysitter Stephanie Zimbalist, but Zimbalist's role is a wash-out. Her character isn't given the grand, juicy build-up that villains usually receive in television suspensers, but perhaps this time it was a mistake (director Peter Medak is so overly-cautious letting the pieces fall into place that he becomes unintentionally coy about the whole thing). The film is shrouded in murk; Medak, going for a low-key mood, doesn't allow the drama to take shape, and as a result the story and characters become lethargic blobs.

triple8 When I first saw "hand that rocks the cradle" I remember thinking this premise had been done before in a really chilling TV movie. Couldn't remember the title. For some reason I thought it was The nanny.(Haha). Well, it came back to me so here's my review of the babysitter.I can't call this anywhere near a good movie but I liked it when I saw it mainly because the whole "stalker movie" genre had not been overdone as of yet-or maybe I was just to young to care.At any rate-this follows a very similar premise to cradle-I guess Joanna was more a housesitter then a nanny, though I seem to remember it differently. It doesn't matter though because if you know the plot of hand that rocks the cradle you know the plot of the babysitter. For some reason, though-and maybe it was because of the then newness of the premise this TV movie scared the heck out of me.It is more chilling then cradle, less campy. Joanna, whose name I remembered after all this time, is genuinely frightening. I wouldn't mind seeing this again mainly because this was an early stalker movie and I'd like to see if it still chilled me as much.It's hard to do a complete review as the movie's a bit of a blur to me but I do remember the story as being dark and really creepy. I don't remember any gore-if it were to come out now I'm sure it'd be laughed at by many but back then, when the premise was still new it was pretty darn good thriller material, if not a genuinely good movie. For Genuine fans of cradle though, this is a must see.

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.