My Babysitter’s a Vampire is charmingly tacky

My Babysitter’s a Vampire is a 2010 Disney Channel original Halloween movie starring Matthew Knight and Vanessa Morgan.

This movie had a total number of 4.18 million viewers when it first aired on Disney Channel on June 10th, 2011. The original airing of the movie was on Teletoon (Canada’s Disney Channel), though, on October 9th, 2010. Younger kids was the intended audience for the Halloween movie.  And in Canada, it was.

The movie is an adventure comedy horror film, starring new faces to the film scene. Its reception wasn’t awful, in fact it received a 73% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also received a smart rating of 85 on Pretty Famous.

The movie starts with our main actor, Knight, playing a teenage boy named Ethan. Ethan is irresponsibly not looking after his little sister, Jane (Ella Farlinger), when left home alone. Instead, Ethan is busy goofing off with his best friend Benny (Atticus Mitchell).

While the boys aren’t watching, Jane leaves the house because she hears suspicious noises. Then, an older kid harasses her.   Oddly, a growling noise is emitted near the teenager and Jane, and the teenager is sucked into the sky. Terrified and potentially traumatized, Jane lets out a high-pitched wail. Luckily, that is the exact time her parents come home.

Seeing Ethan’s irresponsibility and incapability of watching over his little sister, his parents hire a babysitter. That babysitter is is Erica, played by Kate Todd, who ends up deciding not to babysit the Morgans. Instead, she goes to a party hosted by people who her best friend, Sarah, does not trust.

So Sarah goes to babysit the Morgan’s instead. And, to the surprise of the whole audience, Sarah is a vampire. The party Erica is going to is a vampire party. Sarah, Ethan, and Benny join arms to defeat the vampire presence looming over their town.

Altogether, My Babysitter’s a Vampire is definitely for a younger audience. It’s a movie with a sense of humor directed toward children and preteens, as most Disney Channel original movies are. However, just the silliness of the movie is enough to get a few chuckles out of an older audience.

That being said, to a little kid this movie would be terrifying. With it’s petty jump-scares and terrifyingly bad special effects, this movie would easily scare a younger and more impressionable audience. This movie wouldn’t scare an older audience, however. Thus, older audiences should not look forward to teeming with terror when watching this Disney movie.

It’s a sad attempt at a horror for teens, but it gets it’s point across as a comedy. It’s bad, in a good way. The jokes are there, and they barely work. The movie is well-paced and barely cringe-worthy. It’s humorous and it’s all-around a decent movie to watch on a rainy day.

It also had parts that would make an older audience tense. Despite it being pandered toward kids, there are scenes where the audience will be tense and sitting at the edge of their seats. It’s a movie that won’t disappoint.

This movie warrants a solid 7/10, simply for the comedic value of it. It’s a movie that kids can watch to be terrified by and adults can watch for a few chuckles.