The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs is an 2018 American horror comedy film based on the urban legend The Babysitter and The Man Upstairs. The film was directed and written by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Sam Raimi. The film focuses on an 16 year old high school girl Courtney who is targeted by an serial killer. Courtney is babysitting three kids and must protect them from the killer. The film stars Kane Hodder as the title character, Didi Costine, and Jack Dylan Grazer.

Production of the film started in 2015 and ended in 2018. del Toro casted Hodder as the Man Upstairs after seeing his stunt performances in the Friday the 13th film series as another serial killer Jason Voorhees. The film was slated for an release in March 2018 but was delayed to an October 11 release in the same year. An trailer for the film was released on YouTube in July, and error was there with an release date of October 10 instead of 11. This was fixed in the other trailers. Like some horror films, the film uses major instances of humor.

The Man Upstairs was released in theaters on October 11, 2018 and received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $370 million at the box-office.

Plot
In December 1975, Hayley Marsden is babysitting an 7 year old spoiled brat named Nancy. At 9PM, Hayley sends Nancy to bed and stays up watching horror movies. At 10PM, she gets an phone call from an unknown person, telling her to check on Nancy. Hayley believes that this is an prank from her boyfriend Marcus and hangs up the phone. She gets the call from the same person several times and starts to get worried. She decides to check up on Nancy in her room but when she enters her room, she sees Nancy's throat slit and she is dead. Hayley screams and goes back downstairs to call the cops again but is stabbed in the gut by an unknown person. Her and Nancy's body is taken to the basement, where he throws their body down the stairs and locks the door.

Thirty seven years later, Courtney Lee wakes up from bed on an Saturday and gets ready for her day. Courtney is apart of an babysitting business with her friends Sally and Mike. They will babysit three kids in three separate houses, all of which are boys. An man, Marcus (the boyfriend of Hayley from thirty seven years ago), warns them about babysitting and tells them what happened to Hayley and Nancy. Courtney, Sally, and Mike all dismiss him, all believing that its an urban legend. While walking to their babysitting business, Mike bumps into an make wearing an black hoodie holding his head down. Mike apologizes but the man has no response.

In their babysitting business, they are assigned to three kids, Ayden, Jimmy, and Bill. They will go to their houses at 7:00PM. During their meanwhile, in an house, Annie Nessland is babysitting an unnamed 10 year old. The 10 year old goes upstairs to bring his Monopoly downstairs. The parents of the kid call Annie to check up on them. This is when Annie sees an life-sized clown statue. Annie asks the parents for permission if she can cover up the statue but is shocked when the parents say they don't own an statue. Annie looks behind her in fear only to see the clown statue is holding an knife. Annie backs away slowly but the statue runs towards her. Annie runs to the kitchen and grabs an fork, trying to defend herself but she ends up getting stabbed in the leg with it. The clown kills her by putting the knife in her head. The kid comes back downstairs with his board game, unaware his babysitter got killed. The clown statue comes from the kitchen and strangles the kid to death.

The parents soon come home and discovered what has happened, not seeing the clown statue. The whole incident ends up on the news. Meanwhile, Marcus sees the news on the television and gets an shotgun as well as an baseball bat and an machete and gets in his truck and drives off. The babysitting night begins as it is 6:50PM. Courtney, Mike, and Sally go to their kids' houses. Courtney is babysitting Ayden, Sally is babysitting Jimmy, and Mike is babysitting Bill. The killer of the babysitters and kids is revealed to be someone with an unknown face and black mask with eyeholes with the nickname of the Prowler. Marcus finds an crime scene in an house and runs to investigate. He is told by an cop that an babysitter was killed but the kid was still alive. Marcus grows suspicious of these babysitter murder incidents and drives off in his truck. While Courtney is babysitting Ayden, Ayden shows Courtney the inside of his basement and shows her an old abandoned TV in the attic. Sally is babysitting Jimmy while watching an scary movie.

Mike babysits Bill, which Bill's mother illegally taught her how to back up an car. The now known Prowler targets the three babysitters and their kids. Prowler first targets Courtney while she is in the attic with Ayden. Prowler uses 25 cents on an phone booth to call Courtney. Courtney hears the phone ring and goes downstairs to get it. While the Prowler is talking to Courtney about checking on the kid, he sneaks into the house by breaking an window silently and goes into the kids room, only to find he is not there. After Courtney left the attic, she had closed it, with the light on and Ayden inside watching the old TV. Courtney hangs up the phone and goes back upstairs to find the window broken. Behind her, The Prowler slashes her in the back and she falls out the window. The Prowler looks out the window to find Courtney alive. The Prowler jumps out the window while Courtney is running and the Prowler runs after her. Ayden is still in the attic and he has no idea that his babysitter is in danger. Courtney runs to an house for help, to find out there are no people there.

The Prowler is fastly catching up with Courtney and she is about to be killed until an dog bites The Prowler in the leg. Courtney runs towards Mike's house, where he answers the door. The Prowler kills the dog and does nor remember which house Courtney ran to until she sees her in the window. Mike and Courtney hide in the basement with Bill to be nowhere in sight. The Prowler breaks an window and tries to unlock the basement door. Courtney helps Mike escape through an window to call for help, seemingly sacrificing herself in the process. The Prowler breaks into the basement and tries to stab Courtney but she removes his hoodie, revealing his face in the dark. Courtney runs upstairs and runs into the kitchen which is an dead end.

When the Prowler is about to kill Courtney, Bill is practicing his backing up with his car. He backs up too far and crashes into the house, running over the Prowler. This wakes up everyone in the neighborhood sleeping and Sally and Jimmy come out of the house. The Prowler is still alive however and moves his hand to grab his knife. Courtney sees this and stomps on the Prowler's hand. Courtney and Bill run to the police (who were called by Mike) and tell them everything what happened. Marcus arrives in his truck and sees the accident. He enters the house with his shotgun and investigates through there. He notices the Prowler alive behind him and shoots him 11 times before the Prowler stops moving completely and is bleeding.