‘The Babysitter: Killer Queen’ Wants You to Accept Your Past Trauma
Netflix’s teen-horror is an advocate for mental health
In 2017’s The Babysitter, Cole (Judah Lewis) is a skinny, nerd-looking high school freshman. We could call him the bullies’ breakfast. He’s anxious, over-worried, and weird most of the time. He struggles to fit in, and he knows it. In fact, he confesses that to his babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving), who he has a huge crush on. She comforts him saying, he’s going to be loved by all the girls once he becomes a senior.
Cole trusts her until the point when he finds out that she and her high school friends want to sacrifice him for the Devil. Then he goes on trying to survive the toughest night of his life. That’s some major trauma to recover from.
Portraying mental health in movies and television shows isn’t a rarity. However, you don’t see that too often in a horror-comedy, and The Babysitter 1–2 does that effortlessly.
In the sequel, 2 years later, Cole is a junior in high school, and nobody believes him about what happened. Everyone thinks he’s a freak who should be institutionalized in a psych ward. His parents want to take him to a Psychiatric Academy because the pills he’s on are not helping. He still claims that crazy night happened for real.
