I remember when this came out and I read somewhere out here that people really liked it and I was all ooh that sounds good I need to remember it and then I forgot about it for various reasons, maybe I’ve been watching too much football and not keeping up my end of the bargain or maybe I’ve just been too goddamned tired or maybe work’s been getting to me or maybe I don’t know what but I finally got to it and I thought it was pretty good although it may have let itself down a little there at the end but lots of things do that I reckon – not everything can be as fantastic pitiful from start to finish as these writings here at Eric Undead. I also like Jessica Clement who I’ve now seen in three things and one was Letters to Satan Claus which I didn’t particularly love at the time but compared to the garbage I watched for Christmas this year I would say it was great maybe even a miracle if I put it next to Fright Before Christmas or even that catholic school weenie bake I had to walk through the other day. Anyway I thought this was pretty good and Clement looked really pretty in her skeleton makeup.

This one starts off with the babysitter puts kids to bed and then does a lengthy dance scene through the living room and halls and kitchen and even grabs one of the parent’s doobs to smoke in the living room like no one would ever smell that but what do I know the answer is not much scenario. So after she fires up her non smelly joint the garage door opens and she goes to have a look and there’s nothing there but surprise someone is in the house now and in a few short minutes it’s CURTAINS for our pot smoking butt swinging dancing babysitter. CURTAINS!

The next time we see some live action we get some foreshadowing involving two local knuckleheads doing stupid shit with a videotape recording camera. Up walks Clement with her big round eyes and she’s all “fuck off don’t film me you two idiots” and heads home to a welcoming mother and I guess some drunk ass uncaring father who hates his own life and hers and everything else in it I guess but we don’t know why do we we assume he’s just an unbelievable uncaring asshole who hates the human race I guess. Luckily her friend calls and says she has the shits so will Clement’s character please please please please go babysit the sheriff’s kid please? She agrees says goodbye to her parents and heads off to experience what wake can guess is the night of the reaper.

Elsewhere, in what I thought was a cool two story plot, the sheriff and his deputy are chasing down clues to that old murder of the pot smoking babysitter. These clues are some of those things called videotapes that people may not understand now but these tapes have recordings of murders on them including the babysitter and the sheriff’s wife. “I’m gonna kill that son of a bitch” growls the policeman who I kind of liked as an actor even though he growls a lot. He can also be seen in The Thicket trying to make Peter Dinklage dance which is my friend Cinema Schminema’s least favorite movie of all time aside from this piece of garbage called The Sinful Dwarf we did a movie swap on about fifteen years ago and I still feel bad about it. “I’m gonna make you watch something just as bad you son of a bitch” growls Misty.

Back at the sheriff’s house, the babysitting continues until the kid goes tits up and goes to bed then the cool stuff starts happening. Things are moved and doors creak open and something’s astir out in the field and it’s all good stuff. And then they pull the old sleight of hand card trick on us and it was interesting and then Clements puts on her skeleton makeup and I think she looks like hot stuff and then honestly I felt like things kind of trickled backwards instead of progressing much like my blog posts. And then it’s over and I have good memories of it except for a few things and we all moved in and lived happily ever after. And by moved in I mean moved on but I’m too lazy to go back and change things so I don’t want anyone to think I moved in with a movie or even Jessica Clement in skeleton makeup because I did none of that and all I’ve really been doing is eating pasta salad and trying to think up clever things to type on my phone.

In the end I guess this was fun while it lasted but it’s probably not anything to ever go back and watch again I don’t think. I am kind of curious and this is no spoiler but I am curious how that one explosive git in that one place and by git I mean got – how did that get there but I don’t really care that much I guess. I mean that would have to be some very very very very very very careful planning maybe I missed it or maybe I’m just not that smart.

FIKED UNDER AND BY FIKED I MEAN FILED: MMM SHRUGS AND SKELETON MAKEUP AND DANCING BABYSITTERS AND FOOBS I MEAN DOOBS