The Babysitter (TV Movie 1980) Poster

(1980 TV Movie)

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Sex & Nudity

  • An older girl spanks a younger girl on the buttocks while an old man ogles them from the bushes.
  • A girl lies about a man making sexual advances towards her in her bedroom, bothering the man's wife.
  • A teenage girl wears a revealing dress, her cleavage is seen. An adult man falls in love with her and it's implied that they have sex, though it's not shown on-screen.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman gets into a car crash and is knocked unconscious.
  • A girl tells the babysitter that she wishes she were dead.
  • The babysitter kills a boy when his head is struck by a sailboat and she refuses to help rescue him. Later on she laughs about it.
  • The babysitter kills a trout by pounding it to death repeatedly with a hammer in a sadistic way.
  • A man goes up to an attic and finds the dead bodies of a family preserved in plastic wrap.
  • A man is knocked unconscious.
  • A babysitter threatens a family with a knife.
  • The murder of a baby is mentioned.

Profanity

  • None.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • An alcoholic woman repeatedly gets drunk in various scenes.
  • Tara and the babysitter have a party and the dad mentions that he can smell pot.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a lot of content implying a young girl was abused in the foster care system. She also claims to have been shifted to at least eight different homes in the course of her childhood.
  • This film has very eerie tones and could frighten younger viewers.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Teenagers tongue-kiss in the dark. Later on one girl is shown making out with a younger teenage boy on a sofa, and she violently shouts at another girl who walks into the room.

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