It’s a cold autumn night in Monroe, Washington and Sarah’s got no wheels and no plans, except for watching some old horror movies on TV. She gets a last minute call from the Johnsons (who saw her ad at the grocery store) to babysit their son Billy. Hoping to get $30 closer to buying a motorcycle, she gets a ride from her Mom to their house on the outskirts of town. Little does she know a simple night of babysitting will turn into an unspeakable nightmare.
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Babysitter Bloodbath contains examples of the following tropes:
- Action Survivor: Sarah is really good handling the horrifying premise (and revolvers) for a teenage babysitter.
- Adaptational Villainy: Burr in the novels’ backstory is shown more, and his thoughts are shown, showing that instead of being a simple mentally ill home invader in the game, he is a sadistic man who murdered his own family, and his reason for trying to kill Sara is to simply get the knife he killed his family with.
- Bring It: Burr gives a silent one in the novels, standing up in the middle of the driveway before getting run over by Sarah.
- Captain Ersatz: The killer is one of Michael Myers. In fact, the game was originally going to be downright be called Halloween, but then the game got taken down due to copyright (despite being free), so the developer changed the name and the model of the killer to look less like Myers.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: In his one bit of dialogue when he calls Sarah, Neokalus Burr proves to have a very deep, raspy, hard to understand voice.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Burr was simply a working class family man in the novels, before randomly deciding to murder people.
- Made of Iron:
- Sarah is visibly bloodied up from being attacked by the killer, but doesn't affect her in gameplay. Then the last hit goes in.
- Burr takes several shots from a revolver to put down, and it turns out that even that didn't actually kill him.
- Monster Clown: Neokalus Burr wears a clown motif.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the novels, Nurse Vickie attempts to give Burr help to get him reintegrated to society, Burr simply bashes her head in and the guards’ to escape the mental hospital.
- Ominous Walk: Thankfully, the killer is restricted to a casual stroll just like Myers.
- Offscreen Teleportation: How Burr moves around.
- Off With Her Head!: How Sarah dies if the killer gets in enough hits.
- Press X to Not Die: When you are escaping the killer for the first time, you're required to mash the button to get through the back door before you're caught.
- The Quiet One: Unlike Myers, Burr speaks. But he only does it once when he calls Sarah. After that, he's completely silent the rest of the game.
- Retraux: The game itself was intended to have the look and feel of a PSX game.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: The only firearm available to you is a small snub-nosed revolver. It's what ultimately puts down Burr (for a while).
- Whole-Plot Reference: Considering it used to be a Halloween fan game. The whole game is an obvious reference to the first film.
- Word-Salad Horror: Burr's deep, raspy, hard to understand, mumbled phone call:Neokalus Burr: Don't lie, don't lie. The game is up. The demons drag my legs to hell, while you sit in your ivory tower. Don't you judge me, I see all...
- Save-Game Limits / Save Token: The only way to save is by finding VHS tapes and sliding them into VCR's.
- Shows Damage: Sarah is shown getting bloodier as she gets attacked by the killer.
- Sprint Meter: You get one in this game, it depletes fairly quickly.
