One of the films recently announced as part of Netflix‘s “Netflix & Chills” lineup this Halloween season is A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting, which marks a return to horror for Freddy’s Dead director Rachel Talalay. And the trailer has been unleashed today!
Okay so this one falls on the family-friendly horror-comedy side of the fence, centered on a team of elite babysitters who, well, hunt monsters for a living. Several of those monsters are featured in the official trailer, which promises – if nothing more – a fun little “gateway horror” movie for kids and families this Halloween season. And we could always use more of those.
Check out the trailer below.
Based on the first installment of Joe Ballarini’s popular scary book series of the same name, A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting will be arriving on Netflix on October 15th.
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.
The film is produced by Ivan Reitman and Amie Karp, with Naia Cucukov, Tom Pollock, and Ilona Herzberg executive producing. Alessio Scalzotto, Tamsen McDonough, Ashton Arbab, Crystal Balint, and Ricky He also co-star in this action-packed adventure about working together to overcome your fears. Joe Ballarini wrote the adaptation of his own novel.