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2017 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf The Babysitter is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Babysitter, ranked
1. A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
A teenage babysitter discovers her mundane job masks something far more dangerous when supernatural threats emerge, blending horror-comedy action with a resourceful protagonist fighting to protect a child through the night.
2. The Babysitters (2007)
McG's stylized violence and deadpan humor about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary danger at night mirrors this film's blend of comedic timing with genuine stakes.
3. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
The witch's darkly comedic threats and the boy's clever stalling tactics create the same blend of campy horror and genuine peril that makes a night of captivity darkly entertaining.
5. Terror of Hallow's Eve (2017)
A teenage protagonist navigates a single supernatural night where the line between genuine threat and psychological terror keeps shifting, delivered through the same bloody-yet-comedic sensibility and practical creature effects.
7. Children Of The Night (2014)
The film matches that tonal whiplash of horror-comedy by trapping its protagonist in an isolated setting where childlike beings become unexpectedly lethal threats, forcing survival through cunning rather than strength.
8. The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Both films weaponize suburban claustrophobia through escalating practical violence and deadpan horror-comedy, trapping resourceful protagonists in nightmarish homes where each room reveals wilder threats.
Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll pick the one for you.