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A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting is perfect for Halloween | Video Review

October 15, 2020 by EJ Moreno

A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting, 2020.

Directed by Rachel Talalay.
Starring Tamara Smart, Oona Laurence, Indya Moore, and Tom Felton.

As someone who appreciates family-friendly horror films, our critic EJ Moreno offers up a unique take on A Babysitter’s Guide To Monster Hunting. This Rachel Talalay-directed film makes for a perfect Halloween viewing with the spooky holiday right around the corner. The perfect tone and campy performances allow this to become a way to introduce a young viewer to their first “horror film” or recapture the magic of the 90s family-friendly spooky movies.

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When high school freshman Kelly Ferguson (Tamara Smart) reluctantly agrees to babysit Jacob Zellman (Ian Ho) on Halloween, the last thing she expects is to be recruited into an international secret society of babysitters who protect kids with special powers from monsters. In order to keep Jacob safe from harm, Kelly teams with no-nonsense chapter Vice President Liz Lerue (Oona Laurence), tech genius Berna Vincent (Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson), creature expert Cassie Zhen (Lynn Masako Cheng), and potions master Curtis Critter (Ty Consiglio) to defeat a Boogeyman known as “The Grand Guignol” (Tom Felton), a glamorous witch named “Peggy Drood” (Indya Moore) and their legion of mysterious monsters.

Originally published October 15, 2020. Updated October 16, 2020.

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Flickering Myth TV, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Indya Moore, netflix, Oona Laurence, Rachel Talalay, tamara smart, Tom Felton

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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