Bad Behavior

2013
Bad Behavior
4.4| 1h23m| en| More Info
Released: 22 October 2013 Released
Producted By: Beautiful Lie Pictures
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Trapped overnight by an unknown assailant, a babysitter struggles to stay safe. As the hours tick by, she realizes that the greatest threat might be from the very children she's trying to protect.

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nikbangles I truly wish I could give this rating less than a full star. I saw the previews and thought it would be a great film. Boy was I wrong. It was actually rather boring, annoying, and poorly written. The actors were horrible. The entire plot of the story was horrible. I am so upset that I watched this movie. It was an hour and a half of my life that I can never get back. I was hoping that at some point, it would get better. The movie made absolutely no sense. Throughout the entire movie, I kept asking myself the obvious questions that any viewer would ask. Just horrible. I would recommend that the writers should have considered making the movie to make sense to the viewer, including the plot, characters, and even the characters behaviors. Do yourself a favor, do not watch this. Thumbs down.
mgconlan-1 "Bad Behavior" was both written and directed by Nicholas Brandt and Lisa Hamil (real-life couple?) and starred Hallee Hirsh as Zoë, a babysitter who shows up for what she thinks is going to be a routine overnight job while the couple whose three kids she'll be babysitting go out of town for a family member's wedding. Only the three kids turn out to be proverbially from hell: older brother Tyler (Austin Rogers, who bears an odd resemblance to a very young Tom Hayden) keeps making sexual advances towards Our Heroine; middle brother Jack (Jeremy Dozier) is a sort of idiot savant whose parents think he's getting into Yale; and the youngest child and only girl, Grace (Elsie Fisher), is obsessed with princesses and wants to wear her princess dress to daddy's dinner date. The parents duly leave and Zoë invites her boyfriend Kansas (Andrew James Allan, who's considerably shorter than Mike Nesmith of the Monkees but otherwise strikingly resembles him) over, hoping to make out with him (or more!) once the children sleep — only Kansas's presence sends the paranoid Jack off the deep end; he immediately concludes that Kansas and Zoë are "spies" sent on some sort of secret mission to destroy him and his family. Jack takes over the rest of the house and forces Zoë, Tyler and Grace to hide in an upstairs bathroom (which has a gable in its ceiling from which Jack, when he chooses to, can spy on them from the roof of the house).The movie then turns into a bizarre combination of "The Old Dark House" and "The Panic Room," as Tyler keeps dropping hints of what Jack did during his previous bouts with less-than-sanity, including setting fire to the place, slicing Tyler's ear off (fortunately the ear was recovered in time that it could be re-attached surgically) and possibly killing the previous babysitters. But like its two predecessors on Lifetime's Saturday schedule, "Bad Behavior" has an outrageous reversal in the final act. "Bad Behavior" has a few nice touches — notably some establishing shots of the exterior of the house where it takes place, in which Brandt and Hamil pull the neat trick of making a pretty ordinary suburban ranch house (except for those two gables on the roof) look sinister and almost Gothic — but for the most part it treads so much on the thin edge of silliness, and all too often goes over, one wonders if Brandt and Hamil were doing a serious Lifetime movie or a parody of one. I'm really tired of the penchant of modern-day thriller writers for ridiculously unbelievable reversals, especially at the ending — when O. Henry pulled this sort of thing he was at least able to make the finale seem like it had some relationship to the course of his story before that, but writers like Nicholas Brandt, Lisa Hamil and Brian McAuley simply don't have that sort of knack.
Watcher Saw this film being advertised on Lifetime yesterday, and I thought: "Huh, this could be a interesting movie." And boy was I wrong. What made me hate this already was the poor common sense and the creepy teenage kid who was no help whatsoever (complaining and being a freaking pervert in front of his kid sister). Throughout the film I thought the kids were going to tell the babysitter what's up with their brother, but they keep on saying: "We're not suppose to talk about it." WELL, maybe you should since your brother is trying to HURT or KILL you. And let's not forget the parents. Oho~ They didn't even bother to tell the babysitter about the insane brother. Nope. So if you guys want to watch a film where there's less suspense, annoying teenage boys, and poor actions? Then this is the film for you, folks.
kjckb So, I am shocked that so far people are giving this good reviews on here. I just sat through this. It was slow and irritating. Very claustrophobic since most of the movie you are locked in a small bathroom with a babysitter and two kids wondering what the crap is going on outside. When you finally get to the end where you expect something explosive, you just want to smack everybody! The whole time I'm wondering... why doesn't she just break through the sky light??? Why didn't she just run out the door when the parents got home???? And there is no way on God's green earth that they could pull this off because how are they going to explain her absence to the babysitter's mom? How about the mother of Grace's friend who could tell something was wrong when she dropped Grace off? Nope, this movie deserved a way better ending than the "shock" the creators were going for. And if you are a Linda Hamilton fan, forget it because you only get like 1 1/2 minutes of her in this whole stinking film. Why did she even do this anyway? LOL! Don't waste your time.