I think that babysitting used to be considered
this old fashioned and unhip job.
You think babysitters just look after kids?
Wrong.
How do I make babysitters as cool as I possibly can?
I’m gonna turn them into monster hunters.
Boo-yah.
Ready!
And up!
Cut!
With all our characters, from a fashion stand point,
they have very individual look and feel.
Okay, so I’ll start with makeup.
It is amazing.
She makes a work of art on my face.
The hair. I knew that they were gonna color it.
And without the costume I don’t think I would have been able to channel Liz like I did.
So Tom Felton plays The Grand Guignol.
The double G. The GG. The Grand Guignol.
He is a ah, well he’s the boogeyman.
Sleepytime.
You remember when you were young and you had that little creak
in the closet when you were asleep.
Or you thought you saw a shadow under the bed.
This is him.
Tom’s character
several hours in makeup and hair.
He has scars all over his face.
I think it’s written in the script that he’s half monster,
half rock star.
What’s up, Rhode Island!
He’s quite stylish for a monster, yeah.
When Tom first came to set
with all the makeup on I was...
it’s very scary.
Especially because he has these very scary, like,
cat eye contacts in.
And it’s quite funny because to be fair in between takes
they love to do little dance routines
and we’re singing songs, so this is two
lovely young heroines and then this
disgusting, foul, loathsome, uh, creature.
Bravo. Bravo!
The production designer is responsible
for everything physical in front of the camera
except the actors.
A lot of the movie is...is
sets because we were building an entire world.
I was so pulled into the world
that I was like, okay this is the coolest thing ever.
And each room had its own inspirations.
At Babysitters Headquarters,
we go into what is called the Weapons Room.
Throw it, Kelly!
Okay!
And it’s sort of riffing off
"2001" of Kubrick
where round shapes and
strange mechanisms deliver things.
So the Nightmare Nursery is inspired by clouds.
At first it needs to be a place
that’s gonna make him as happy as possible
so he’ll go to sleep.
Need something more powerful
to get this wretched boy to sleep.
Wait, what, what.
No! And keep him alive.
Particularly on a film of this nature,
there’s a lot of things that you can’t film directly.
For example Toadies.
They’re hench people of the Grand Guignol.
Release our new friends upon the world.
Toadies?
(spits, grumbles)
We’ve rehearsed this for six months!
I wanted the Toadies to be, uh, teenaged boys.
(screams)
These scary kind of creatures,
but honestly they’re kinda cute.
(blows raspberry)
So you’ve gotta make this room react
to things that don’t exist.
(growls, yells)
Action! Go!
Alright resetting. Resetting!
(belches)
This movie has, uh, a lot of action and fight sequences,
particularly when they’re fighting the monsters.
(roar)
(screams)
I haven’t done a lot of action-packed,
kind of fantasy movies before,
so I was very excited about that.
On the show we’ve actually done a lot of training with the girls.
We did some fight basics.
Basic stunt movement.
Um, they’ve all been to the parkour gym.
Part of the rehearsal process for me was seeing
what they were good at,
things that I knew that they could do.
There is quite a few pieces in all these fights
that they’re actually doing themselves.
The audience for A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting,
I hope they’re a bit scared, in a good way.
You’ve got young heroines all coming up to the...
to the plate to try and defeat the boogeyman.
I think it will kind of inspire kids to defeat their own monsters.
I loved it. I loved the storyline.
I loved the magic.
I loved the meaning of friendship.
I felt like all those elements were there...
and monsters. And monsters!
Alright that is a picture wrap!
(cheering)