The Baby Sitters Club - The Babysitter

💎💎THE BABY-SITTERS CLLUB💎💎 – The Baby-Sitters Club is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed by Melanie Mayron, in her feature directorial debut. It is based on Ann M. Martin’s novel series of the same name and is about one summer in the girls’ lives in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. The film was shot in the California cities of Los Angeles, Altadena and Santa Clara. Seven junior high school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains. When Kristy Thomas, President of The Baby-Sitters Club, has a brilliant idea to run a summer camp, the girls all agree it’s the perfect way to spend their summer together. But life gets complicated as building romance, family problems and three rival teen girls conspire to ruin the club, all putting the friendships between the members to the test. A group of friends in junior high decide to start a summer camp for the kids they babysit. However, their plans are constantly changed by complaining neighbors, school rivals and the usual growing pains – from passing school to dating to reconnecting a relationship with an absentee father.

Kristy Thomas, President of “The Baby-Sitters Club”, decides to open a day camp for their clients. Her best friend, Mary Anne Spier, along with Mary Anne’s stepsister Dawn Schafer, offer their parents’ backyard to serve as the campsite. All of the club members (Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Dawn Schafer, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, Mallory Pike and Jessi Ramsey) vow to keep a close eye on the kids. Meanwhile, Kristy faces problems when she meets her estranged father (who abandoned her family seven years ago and started a new family in California) and faces a dilemma about telling her friends and family about this. Mary Anne is the only one she tells and she too is under pressure as the curiosity of her friends grows. Claudia is forced to attend summer school because she failed Science. Kristy promises to help Claudia study but, because she is seeing her father, she fails to keep her promise. Later on, the members of The Baby-Sitters Club, along with some of their clients, perform a rap song for Claudia who has to take a test; if she fails the test she would have to repeat the eighth grade and drop out of the club.

Stacey has a crush on a 17-year-old boy named Luca. As their relationship ensues, she faces problems telling him about her Diabetes and later, her age. This is revealed after a trip to a New York City club, in which a bouncer does not allow her into a club because she is underage. Lucas is outraged, unable to believe that Stacey is 13 years old. Meanwhile, Dawn must face her neighbor, Mrs. Haberman, who becomes increasingly upset because of the camp activities that are taking place next door. Kristy’s 13^th birthday comes and she has arranged to go to an amusement park with her father. Promising her friends she would make it to her own party, Kristy goes to meet her father, but he does not show up. She begins to walk home until her friends show up in Luca’s car after Mary Anne tells them that Kristy’s father came back. Luca drives the girls back to Mallory’s parents’ cabin and present Kristy with a half-melted birthday cake. As Stacey is saying goodbye to Luca, he tells her that he will be coming to Stoneybrook again next year. Delighted, Stacey tells him that she will be 14 years old when he returns. They share a kiss just before Luca departs. In return for making Mrs. Haberman’s summer miserable, the girls give the greenhouse to her. Meanwhile, Kristy witnesses a miracle when Jackie Rodowsky hits his first home run, hitting Cokie Mason, who is sitting in a tree nearby, in the process.

💎💎 BLUE CAR💎💎 – A troubled young woman is encouraged by her teacher to enter a poetry contest. Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her English teacher, Mr. Auster. But what started out as a mentoring relationship begins to get a bit more complex. Blue Car is a 2002 American drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff. It was the first film she directed and wrote. The film stars David Strathaim, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin and Frances Fisher. Megan is a teenage gifted writer living in the Dayton, Ohio area. She has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her mother, who works 12-hour days and goes to school at night, leaving Megan to babysit her younger sister, Lily. The girls’ father does not pay child support, causing financial strain in the household. Lily has serious emotional problems; she cuts herself, refuses to eat and speaks about becoming an angel. After being checked into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, Lily kills herself by jumping out of an open window as she tries to “fly”. Meg finds solace in her English teacher, Mr. Auster, who claims he is passionate about writing a novel. He becomes a comfort to Megan and encourages her to enter a poetry contest, which is later followed by one one-on-one poetry tutoring. After winning the local round of the competition, Megan wants to compete at the finals in Florida during spring break. With her mother unable and unwilling to fund the trip, Megan resorts to stealing and is barely able to make it to Florida. A closer, pseudo-sexual relationship develops between Megan and Mr. Auster. The two run into each other outside the hotel that is hosting the poetry competition and go to a hotel room, where Megan reluctantly has sex with Mr. Auster, who stops after realizing that she is not comfortable with the situation. After this, Megan realizes that Mr. Auster has not written a novel at all and that it was all just a ruse to impress her. After writing and delivering a brand-new poem subtly denouncing Mr. Auster, Megan walks out of the competition. Later, back home, she decides to live with her father, riding away with him in his blue car.

💎💎KILL THEORY💎💎 – Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive. A group of college students visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate their upcoming graduation. The fun doesn’t last long when a sadistic psychopath forces them to participate in his deadly contest. The rules are simple – in order to survive they must kill each other. As tension builds and relationships begin to crumble, they realize that only one can make it out alive. Could you trust your boyfriend? Your girlfriend? Your best friend? Only one can go home. So, who will be the last man or woman standing? Are you capable of the unthinkable? That’s the question seven college students face when they visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate graduation. Trapped in a deadly game, they’re forced to kill one another in order to survive. Friends and couples must test their trust and as the clock ticks away: Alliance form, tension escalates and hope begins to fade. Some will and fight for love, others to survive, but all will change. Because deep down… we’re all killers.

Kill Theory is a 2009 horror-thriller film directed by Chris Moore and written by Kelly C. Palmer. An unnamed man is sitting in a psychiatrist’s office, being released from an insane asylum. His doctor, Dr. Karl Truftin (Don McManus), recaps how the man sacrificed his three friends during a mountain climbing expedition, cutting their climbing ropes in order to save himself. Although the man insists that anyone in his situation would have made the decision to kill survive, the doctor explains that due to good behavior and evident remorse over causing the deaths, the man is to be set free with regular psychiatrist evaluation. Meanwhile, Brent (Teddy Dunn) is traveling to his father’s lake house with his girlfriend Amber (Ryanne Duzich), other couples Michael (Patrick Flueger) and Jennifer (Agnes Bruckner), Carlos (Theo Rossi) and Nicole (Steffi Wickens), as well as their friend Freddy (Daniel Franzese). Upon arriving they are surprised to find Brent’s stepsister Avery (Taryn Manning) has been living there. Brent and Alex argue however, the others convince Brent to let her stay. After settling in, Amber refers to an unspecified event that implies that she and Michael were intimate at one point, however Michael brushes off the topic quickly. The group party and drink into the night until everyone goes to bed. Carlos and Nicole decide to sleep outside on the porch. Carlos, being heavily intoxicated, passes out immediately. When Nicole goes into the kitchen to get a drink, she is attacked by an unknown man.

Sometime later, Nicole’s body is thrown through a window onto Freddy who alerts the others with his screams. The group panics before noticing the word “TV” cut into Nicole’s stomach. After turning on the TV, the group views a video of Nicole being handed a loaded gun and told to shoot Carlos in order to survive. Nicole refuses and instead turns the gun on her attacker who overpowers her and slits her throat. The unseen man then explains to the group through a Walkie-Talkie that come 6 a.m. only one member of the group should be alive or they will all die. The man also explains that Nicole was given the same option as they are, kill to survive, however she failed. Collectively the group decides to barricade themselves into the house, realizing their phones do not work. Carlos decides to make a run toward the boat to retrieve a gun placed in the key box. Brent follows him and they find the boat has been sunk, but Brent is able to retrieve the gun anyway. Noticing a nearby axe, Carlos runs to get it, but is caught in a giant bear trap. Brent begins to help him, however after hearing someone approach from the trees nearby he leaves Carlos and returns to the house, telling the others that Carlos has been killed. When Freddy begins to become hysterical over their situation, a bandaged-up Carlos makes it to the house. Although barely conscious, Carlos is able to tell Jennifer that Brent had left him. Jennifer manages to knock the gun out of Brent’s hand and gives it to Michael, no longer trusting Brent. The group decides they have to try and leave in the van in order to get Carlos to a hospital despite Brent’s protests and expectation that the van will be rigged to explode. Alex leaves the house and successfully brings the van to the front door of the house, allowing everyone to get in. However, while driving away from the house, road spikes blow all of the tires. The unnamed man quickly shoots rigged balloons of gasoline which spill over the van before telling the group that there is no escape and that they need to sacrifice one person in the next 60 seconds or they will all be burned alive. Brent pushes the wounded Carlos out of the van where he is shot in the head.

The group panics, Brent deserts Amber by running into the forest, leaving her to return to the house with Michael, Jennifer and Freddy. Alex attempts to escape on her motorbike however is nearly shot when attempting to do so, instead fleeing towards the lake. While Brent runs through the forest he is attacked by the killer, only spared due to his promise to kill everyone else. Brent then attacks Alex, drowning her in the lake. He quickly returns to the house and convinces Freddy to get the gun off of Michael by lying to him saying that they could both escape on the boat. Freddy retrieves the gun from Michael but eventually shoots Brent after realizing he was lying about the boat and was going to shoot everyone. Freddy then forces Amber to leave the house before attempting to do the same to Michael and Jennifer. Michael tries to reason with the hysterical Freddy, but Brent soon stabs Freddy through the head with a fire poker, having survived being shot. Michael and Jennifer run into the basement but are then cornered by Brent. As Brent prepares to shoot them both, Amber returns and bludgeons him to death with a spade. Michael and Jennifer go back upstairs, leaving Amber in shock in the basement. Eventually she finds a gun planted by the killer in her bag and reluctantly draws it on Jennifer who has the other gun. The two girls get into an argument over Michael, with Amber confessing her love for him. Jennifer shoots Amber in the stomach, much to Michael’s shock. Realizing it is nearly 6 a.m. and the killer is approaching the house, Michael and Jennifer escape into the basement with an unconscious Amber. In the basement they hide and attempt to shoot the killer when he comes downstairs, however it is revealed to be Alex, having survived her attack from Brent earlier. Alex quickly dies from the gunshot wound before Jennifer turns on Michael in desperation, stabbing him in the stomach. Michael tells Jennifer he would have died for her, but before she can kill him Amber attacks Jennifer and strangles her to death. Amber crawls next to Michael, intent on staying with him until the end. As the clock chimes six and the man approaches, Michael kills himself in order to save Amber. As the man passes, Amber says she’ll never be like him and though he expresses skepticism, he leaves her alive and departs from the house. The killer leaves a voicemail in the psychiatrist’s office saying he’s proved his theory that desperate people would resort to murder and the camera pans along a photograph to reveal that Brent was the doctor’s son. The killer laughs and says he’s now found closure.

💎💎BABYSITTER MASSACRE💎💎 –After the loss of one of their friends, a group of unsuspecting babysitters find themselves stalked by a faceless killer who takes great pleasure in slaughtering young women on the night of Halloween. Has he returned for the rest of them? A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later, they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night someone is torturing and killing every member of the babysitter club. To recover from the unexpected loss of their companion who was kidnapped and brutally murdered, the best friends since high school and former members of a local babysitter club – Linda, Lucky, Angela and Arlene – decide to throw a farewell Halloween party. However, unbeknownst to them, the faceless killer who takes great pleasure in slaughtering young women on the night of Halloween is stalking Angela and the remaining girls of the club. Has he returned for the rest of them? Babysitter Massacre is a 2013 horror film written and directed by Henrique Couto. Three sequels, Babysitter Massacre II: Slay Belles, Babysitter Massacre III: Overnight and Babysitter Massacre IV: Heavy Metal, were crowd funded via Kickstarter in 2018. On Halloween, a babysitter is sent several threatening text messages, the last of which reads, “I’m not in the house… yet.” Moments later, the sitter is grabbed by a man in a white mask, who duct tapes her to a chair, rips three of her fingernails out and slits her throat. Elsewhere, Angela chats with her neighbor, Mr. Walker, whose daughter, April, was abducted seven years ago and has recently been deemed deceased in absentia. Angela was a member of the same babysitters club as April and when she was taken, every member of the club besides Angela blamed Bianca, who was with April when she disappeared. To try and cheer up the dour Bianca, Angela invites her to a party she is throwing, while out in the woods another girl is slain by the masked man. The killer then breaks into a house, where he murders a couple, mutilating the girl with a straight razor before slashing her throat. Angela and her friend Lucky prepare for the party, as the killer butchers another girl and her coworker in an office. Bianca, who had just argued with the victim, spots the murderer (whose disguise is similar to the one worn by the person she saw take April) leaving the building and tries to follow him, but he eludes her. The maniac continues his rampage as Angela and Lucky welcome their first guest, Arlene and Bianca angrily blows off her ex-boyfriend, Tyler. Bianca visits Angela, but storms off when Arlene taunts her with an Ouija board, afterwards deciding to check on the other babysitter club members with Tyler, due to her suspicion that the masked man could be the same one who kidnapped April.

After massacring a gathering of six people, the madman breaks into Angela’s house and chloroforms her, Lucky and Arlene. Angela and Arlene awaken in the basement, where Lucky, who has been beaten and tied to a chair, informs them that their captor told her that he will free Angela and Arlene if they kill her with a hammer. As it is their only option, Lucky tells Arlene to sacrifice her, which the sobbing Arlene reluctantly does. Bianca has Tyler drop her off at Angela’s house, where she is approached by Mr. Walker, who hints that he was the one who murdered April before he knocks Bianca unconscious with a head butt. Mr. Walker proceeds to enter the basement, strangles Arlene and unmasks himself for Angela. Mr. Walker takes Angela upstairs, incapacitates her by cutting her ankles and rants about how much he loves her; he murdered all of the others in order to free her from her old life, so that she could start a new one with him, asserting, “You will come to love me, in time.” While Mr. Walker pours gasoline throughout the kitchen, Angela stabs him in the stomach, with Mr. Walker doing the same to her. Angela begins crawling away while Mr. Walker takes out a lighter, proclaiming, “The only thing more romantic than running away together, is dying together. Love is a bitch!” The disoriented Bianca enters, but is told to run by Angela, who reassures her by saying, “It’s not your fault.” The house erupts up in flames and Bianca goes into hysterics as Tyler tries to console her and emergency services approach.

💎💎THE BABYSITTER (1995)💎💎 – A teenage babysitter is the focus of two boys and a man’s separate obsessions. A teenage girl babysits two young kids while the parents go out to a party. Her boyfriend is coerced (with the help of alcohol) by an old “friend” into going to the house. Both boys are obsessed with the babysitter, as is the father of the two children. The story basically shows the effects drink has on different people. A nubile young babysitter (Alicia Silverstone) has no idea that she is the center of a maelstrom of male sexual fantasies. Based on the disturbing short story by Robert Coover, the drama presents a non-linear account of a perfectly mundane event. Having a social engagement, a couple calls for their babysitter. She arrives, they go out, her boyfriend comes over and the weirdness begins – for director Guy Ferland makes little distinction between the character fantasies and what is really occurring. Something will happen and then it will happen again, only the outcome is different. What makes this dark film so disturbingly creepy is that none of the males involved, neither the frustrated boyfriend, the horny husband who hired her, or even her little charge has nice fantasies about her. The film contains several sexual scenes and some scenes of violence. This dark drama presents a non-linear account of a perfectly mundane event. Having a social engagement, a couple calls for their babysitter. She arrives, they go out, her boyfriend comes over and the weirdness begins.

The Babysitter is a 1995 American erotic thriller film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Alicia Silverstone, based on the short story of the same name by Robert Coover in his collection Pricksongs and Descants (1969). The film was released direct-to-video in October 1995. Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten (George Segal) and his wife, Bernice Holsten (Lois Chiles). Harry often fantasizes about Jennifer, while Dolly misinterprets Bill’s compliments as a sign of attraction and fantasizes about him. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s ex-boyfriend, Jack (Jeremy London), whom she broke up with after he began pressuring her for sex, runs into his estranged troublemaking friend Mark (Nicky Katt), Bill and Bernice’s son, who once had a fling with Jennifer and still harbors feelings for her. Throughout the night, Harry, Jack and Mark have increasingly racy fantasies about Jennifer. Jack calls Jennifer and asks to visit her at the Tuckers’ residence, but she refuses. Mark later steals beer from Bill’s party, where they run into Harry, who becomes fixated on the notion Jack might go to his house to have sex with Jennifer. Jack and Mark get increasingly drunk and show up uninvited to see Jennifer, but she refuses to let them in. They then spend the rest of the night stalking around the house and spying on her through the window. Meanwhile, Harry gets drunk and falls asleep in his car, where he has a nightmare of Jennifer and Jack having sex, which drives him to rush home and confront them. In his absence, Dolly makes a pass at Bill, who rejects her, but agrees to keep her secret and offers to drive her home. At the Tuckers’ residence, Jack and Mark force their way in while Jennifer is taking a bath and after a tense argument, Mark knocks Jack unconscious and attempts to rape Jennifer, who runs out of the house. Mark pursues her and ends up being fatally run over by Harry, who is arrested for drunk driving just as Bill and Dolly arrive and hear about the accident. Before being escorted home, Jennifer confronts Jack, who is being questioned by the police, and asks him, “What were you thinking?” before leaving an ashamed and guilt-stricken Jack behind.

💎💎THE BABYSITTER (1980)💎💎 – The Babysitter is a 1980 American made-for-television drama horror thriller film directed by Peter Medak and starring Patty Duke, William Shatner and Stephanie Zimbalist about a young girl hired as a live-in nanny who infiltrates and tries to destroy a suburban Seattle family. The film originally premiered as The ABC Friday Night Movie on November 28, 1980. The film is rated M in New Zealand for violence, horror, drug use and sex scenes. Spoiled twelve-year-old Tara’s new best friend from next-door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara’s mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad. Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter, Tara. Liz’s husband Jeff isn’t too thrilled with the arrangement and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile next-door neighbor Dr. Lindquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.

A bored and isolated child by the name of Tara Benedict (Quinn Cummings) is spying on a boy while he sets up his sailboat. Her only friend appears to be an imaginary friend in the form a hideous torn-apart doll called “Abby”. She finds herself being watched by mysterious and alluring eighteen-year-old Joanna Redwine (Stephanie Zimbalist), who whispers ‘’poor Tara…” before rushing off into the woods. The Benedict Family have just recently moved to the island. The father, Dr. Jeff Benedict (William Shatner) and mother, Liz Benedict (Patty Duke) are not happy. The father is a dentist in Seattle and the mother is a complex, contradictory person. She is overprotective to the point of oppressiveness and yet, so distracted by her own problems that she doesn’t pay attention to anything. It becomes apparent that Joanna is an orphan (although a beautiful 18-year-old) who teases and plays hide-and-seek with Tara in the first few minutes of the film. Tara (a lonely 12-year-old) becomes interested in Joanna and follows her in turn and they become friends. Tara has a crush on the boy who lives next door, Scotty (David Wallace). Although they say “next door” the area is so “rural” that to get “next door” one has to drive there. Scotty lives with his grandfather, Dr. Lindquist (John Houseman). Joanna realizes that Tara has a crush because while she is watching Tara from a distance, Tara is watching Scotty, but is too shy to talk to him. Joanna takes the lead in meeting Scotty’s boat when he comes in from a sail. Tara introduces Joanna to him and to her family. Scotty (sixteen-years-old) is interested in Joanna.

Soon Joanna Redwine has moved in with the family as housekeeper, cook and babysitter. She tells them that she recently graduated from high school and has been a foster child, but that the family she lived with went to Europe and left her alone to find a new family. Every so often Joanna goes back alone to the house across the water where she recently was a foster child, housekeeper and babysitter. She talks to some invisible person or people when she is inside the darkened house with its furniture covered in transparent plastic sheeting. Joanna is a capable housekeeper at first. She keeps everything clean and takes care of everybody in the family seemingly effortlessly. And she is a good babysitter. She gets Tara interested in going outdoors, learning to swim, learning about nature. Then she becomes the confidant of Liz Benedict who tells her all her unhappy feelings about her jealousy of her husband and having nothing to do because she is a housewife and a recovering alcoholic.

Jeff Benedict tries to check on her references but cannot find out anything about her. Dr. Lindquist becomes suspicious of Joanna and calls social services trying to find out where she lived before coming to the island. He finds one foster mother who tells him that Joanna murdered her baby, but that she couldn’t prove it. Dr. Lindquist tells Jeff and Liz what the foster mother had said, but they do not believe him and tell him he should have better things to do with his time than spread vicious gossip. Joanna becomes Liz Benedict’s only friend. She encourages Liz to start drinking again every day. Joanna encourages Liz to become angrier than she already was at her husband. She encourages Liz in thinking that her husband is having an affair. Soon Liz stops going out to socialize with their friends and colleagues. She sits at home and drinks. But one evening Joanna tells Liz to go ahead and go out to a get together. She tells her to be witty and brilliant. And she says that Tara has invited some friends over for a party and that she, Joanna will chaperone. But the invited friends are actually Scotty and other older teens. Tara is considered the baby and told to go to bed. Tara falls asleep on the stairway and wakes up to find Joanna and Scotty making love on the floor. Tara is hurt but Joanna scolds her and tells her go away. Scotty is in love with Joanna.

One day Scotty, Joanna and Tara go out sailing on Scotty’s boat. It is a beautiful day and everything is peaceful and serene. Then as Scotty leans over to check on something, the sail crosses swiftly over and the boom knocks him into the water and unconscious he floats there, while Tara cries to Joanna to do something, to turn the boat around, to help him, but Joanna only smiles and does not move. Dr. Lindquist, Scotty’s grandfather, is devastated and very angry at Joanna’s twisted behavior. He finds it difficult to get any information on her past. Meanwhile, Liz has become helpless because of all the alcohol and pills she is consuming and Joanna is busy trying to seduce Jeff. The house is no longer clean and neat. Everything is out of place and a mess. Joanna no longer buys supplies or food and when she does serve something to eat it is weird and inedible. All the houseplants are dead, the mother is always stoned and crying, the father is busy working in Seattle during the days and trying to get ahead socially in the evenings at cocktail parties with their friends, while the daughter, Tara is dismayed, frightened and alone.

Dr. Lindquist finally gets the address of the house where Joanna last lived. This is the house where she often goes to talk to invisible people. Dr. Lindquist goes there at night, with a large flashlight and searches through the place. The downstairs rooms are quiet and all the furnishings are covered. He goes upstairs and finds Joanna’s previous foster family, mother, father and son, lying dead in the master bedroom bed. They also are neatly covered in transparent plastic sheeting. Dr. Lindquist had tried to get help from the police after his grandson was killed, but they, like the Benedicts, would not pay any attention to him. Now he has some evidence and he goes to get help. Meanwhile, Joanna is threatening her new family. She knocks out Jeff and then chases Tara through the house and into the basement. Tara manages to knock Joanna down and shake her off every time. Joanna then arms herself with a large kitchen knife and goes looking for Tara who tries to wake up Liz who is still sedated in bed. Joanna enters the bedroom but before she can kill them, Jeff revives and struggles with Joanna over the knife when Dr. Lindquist arrives with the police. Joanna breaks down crying, telling the Benedicts how tired she is of having no family to call her own and how worried she was that the Benedicts would cast her away. Before the police take her away, she tells the Benedicts and Dr. Lindquist “please take care of yourselves.” Tara gives Abby to Joanna, finally parting with her childish doll for good and giving it to someone who needs it more, implying that Tara has forgiven Joanna for her wrongdoings. The film ends with a paused shot of Joanna’s eyes while she holds Abby and then glances up at the Benedicts and Dr. Lindquist one last time.

Dr. Jeff Benedict and his wife Liz have relocated to Seattle from Chicago. They have a 12-year-old daughter, Tara. Liz feels that she needs some help with childcare and housekeeping. She happens to meet an 18-year-old girl named Joanna Redwine. Without consulting her husband, Liz hires Joanna as a live-in nanny. She weans Tara off of the TV and engages her in outdoor activities. The Benedicts’ neighbor Doc Lindquist watches Joanna warily one day as she pushes Tara to exhaust herself swimming. At a party, he overhears Joanna tell his grandson Scotty that she had lived in Seattle prior to working for the Benedicts. He points out to Jeff that this story does not match the one she had told Liz. Doc begins his own quiet investigation into Joanna’s background and finds it almost impossible to recreate where she has lived, because of the many foster homes where she had lived and the fact that she is legally an adult. Liz is still overly stressed and begins to confide in Joanna. She is convinced that Jeff has a mistress in Seattle. She explains that she has not had a drink in a year. Joanna suggests that there is no harm in having a drink.

Liz’s drinking quickly spirals out of control. Jeff leaves her at Doc’s house during a party. Back at home, Joanna is waiting for Jeff in the master bedroom. She attempts to seduce Jeff, but he asks her to leave. The next day, Joanna tells Liz that Jeff had come to her bedroom when he came from the party. Joanna suggests she should leave but stays at Liz’s insistence. Meanwhile, Doc continues his investigation in Joanna’s background by going to The Department of Social Services. A clerk at the counter refuses to give Doc the information because Joanna is 18, is past the age to be considered a child. The clerk steps away from the counter for a moment, leaving Joanna’s file on the counter. Doc is able to sneakily peruse the file and quickly jot down some important information. The clerk returns and informs Doc that they are not to help him anymore. Doc thanks him and walks away. Doc heads to visit an address, presumably obtained from the file. Doc arrives at the home of Mrs. Welford pretending to be Joanna’s doctor. Mrs. Welford acknowledges that she fostered Joanna some years ago and issues a strong warning to Doc to send her to someone else and to stay away from her, or otherwise he’ll regret it. Mrs. Welford tells Doc that Joanna killed her baby. Doc meets with Liz and Jeff to discuss the information he found. Liz rejects the information because the police were not involved. Further, she considers the investigation by Doc to be a malicious attempt to spread gossip about a teenage girl. Liz abruptly walks away, but Jeff apologizes to Do, although he questions Doc’s motives for pursuing the matter. Doc explains that he has a bad gut feeling about Joanna. Doc apologizes for the impasse and invites the family on an outing on the boat on Sunday. As Joanna’s manipulations start to become more overt, she begins to neglect her duties. She is cross with Tara and stops maintaining the house.

One day, when Joanna, Scotty and Tara go for a sail, Joanna releases the jib boom into Scotty’s head, knocking him unconscious into the water. As Tara pleads for Joanna to help Scotty, she silently sails the boat away from his floating body. Doc urges the police to investigate Scotty’s death, but there is no compelling evidence that it is anything other than an accident. Doc’s investigation into Joanna grows more urgent and he finally tracks down her last address. Meanwhile, as Liz is confined to bedrest, Jeff finally allows himself to be seduced by Joanna. The next day, Joanna serves Tara and Jeff raw, whole beef tongue for dinner. She comes downstairs in Liz’s negligee and kisses Jeff, who apologizes for sleeping with her and fires her. He promises to take her to Seattle the next morning and set her up with some money. Meanwhile, Doc arrives at Joanna’s last house to find the bodies of three people in the master bedroom wrapped in plastic. Joanna knocks Jeff out and chases Tara down into the basement. Tara flees back upstairs and tries to wake up a sedated Liz. Joanna grabs a kitchen knife and returns to the bedroom. Jeff wakes up and manages to wrestle the knife out of her hands. Doc arrives with the police as Joanna is finally stopped. The police lead her out of the house and put her in a patrol car. Tara gives Joanna her doll as the movie ends.