And the soundtrack follows suit with bizarre needle drops of Young M.C., Das EFX, and The Sugarhill Gang. My near-teen kid would have no idea what either of these things are. I’m not kidding when I say that the movie directly references “Ice Ice Baby” (in a line that’s referring to I.C.E., believe it or not) and later features someone doing the Hammer Time dance. McG and co-writer Dan Lagana pepper their script with nods to things that make it seem like they haven’t talked to an actual teen since 1999. It's a defiantly stupid movie, with references so bizarrely dated that it verges on fascinating. No one expects “The Babysitter: Killer Queen” to be anything other than your basic escapist entertainment, but it fails even at this modest goal. A new girl at school ( Jenna Ortega) accidentally stumbles into the chaos, and Cole has to summon the courage to save the day from the forces of evil yet again. Melanie and a group of teens head off to a lake party that culminates on a boat, and, well, things get gnarly again and result in the literal resurrection of most of the key players from the original, including Robbie Amell and Bella Thorne. His parents ( Ken Marino & Leslie Bibb) are so concerned about Cole’s tall tales that they’re thinking of sending him to a mental institution when the young man is invited on a party weekend with his lovely neighbor Melanie ( Emily Alyn Lind), the only one who also knows the truth about what happened that night. The awkward Cole ( Judah Lewis) is two years older than at the end of “The Babysitter,” and still struggling through the torture that is adolescence, amplified by the fact that no one believes that his missing babysitter was a devil-worshiping lunatic. However, the drop in quality remains the same. Now that the routine has broken due to streaming, the entire circle of life takes place in-house as the cheapie DTV sequel, “The Babysitter: Killer Queen” launches on Netflix today, but the difference is that this one has the same director, and most of the same cast, even the ones who died in the first movie.

In the old days, “The Babysitter” would have been a modest hit on the midnight movie circuit before producing a straight-to-video sequel with maybe one of the original cast members and none of the quality. McG’s movie wasn’t perfect, but it had a charming simplicity and charismatic performance from the wonderful Samara Weaving as the title character.

Netflix found an unexpected hit in the 2017 McG horror/comedy “The Babysitter,” a film that started like a generic comedy about a boy with a crush on his gorgeous babysitter and then turned into something significantly darker when the kid learned that his first crush was a Satan-worshipping murderer.

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