Better Watch Out (2017)

BETTER WATCH OUT  (2017)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Chris Peckover
    Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Dacre Montgomery,
    Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton, Ed Oxenbould
A 12-year-old boy (he's almost 13) and the babysitter he lusts after (she's five years older) are settling in for an evening of pizza and movies, when they start to see and hear things that suggest they're not alone in the house. Which sounds like slasher movie formula #23, right up to the point where the plot takes a hairpin turn and you suddenly find yourself in "Funny Games" territory. The result is sometimes funny and sometimes disturbing, but it's still a slasher movie, which means that characters are occasionally required to do stuff that nobody outside a slasher movie, no matter how drunk or stupid, would do. Olivia DeJonge, who plays the babysitter, was about 17 when she made this, and at the beginning at least, she looks it. By the end, she doesn't look a day under 30. Rough night, I guess. Better watch out.