Netflix's The Babysitter: Killer Queen ending explained (2025)

The Babysitter: Killer Queen ending spoilers follow.

Horror-comedy The Babysitter was one of Netflix's early original hits in 2017 and the blood cult is back for more in The Babysitter: Killer Queen.

Despite the fact that their characters were killed off in the first movie, it was revealed that Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Hana Mae Lee and Andrew Bachelor were all back in the sequel, but there was one key absence in the announcement.

Samara Weaving – who's gone on to star in the likes of Ready or Not and – was the lead star of The Babysitter, and her character Bee was the only blood cult member to survive the first movie.

It was shown in The Babysitter's credit scene that Bee had survived as she attacked a firefighter, so why wasn't Weaving coming back for The Babysitter: Killer Queen?

Here's how the sequel resolves the cliffhanger from the first movie. Major spoilers ahead.

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The sequel picks up two years after the events of the first movie with Cole (Judah Lewis) haunted by the events, not helped by the fact that nobody believes him that his babysitter led a blood cult.

When his parents try to take him to get help, he decides to head to a party thrown at a nearby lake with his best friend Melanie (Emily Alyn Lind). Bad move, Cole. It turns out that Melanie, despite helping him in the first movie, is actually part of the cult too.

What's more, Max (Amell), Allison (Thorne), Sonya (Lee) and John (Bachelor) have all returned from the dead. Along with new cult members, they need to complete the ritual before sunrise or they'll return to limbo for two years before they can try again.

For the most part, there's no mention of Bee (Weaving), but we do get frequent flashbacks that show her recruiting the various cult members. The ritual – where they need to mix an innocent's blood with "the blood of the sacrificed" – will see them all get any life they want. For instance, Allison wanted to be the "world's best journalist".

Cole manages to survive most of the night with the help of new classmate Phoebe (Jenna Ortega), who blames herself for the death of her parents in a car crash. However, things take an unexpected turn in the climax.

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Despite their best efforts, the ritual is all set to take place after Cole comes back to save Phoebe from Melanie. Max, Allison, Sonya and John all come back to life (again) after being killed (again) during the movie, and they're all ready to drink the blood cocktail.

Melanie tells them to wait though and it's for the arrival of Bee who comes out of the nearby lake. It's revealed that Bee was Phoebe's babysitter too, but Phoebe thought she had died on the night of the accident.

Bee had set up the events of the entire movie as she left Phoebe's childhood bunny in her locker at school with the key to her parents' cabin near the lake, while Bee had also persuaded Melanie to join the cult.

But it wasn't to finally get Cole and fulfil the ritual – it was to end it all.

Bee had made the deal with the devil on the night of the accident, but it was to save Phoebe's life, not to improve her own. The events of the first movie with Cole had made Bee realise she needed to stop the cult.

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After everyone except for Bee drinks the blood, Bee reveals that Cole is no longer the innocent they thought he was because he had slept with Phoebe at the cabin earlier in the night.

The cult members all die (presumably for the last time) as a result of the tainted blood and after saying her goodbyes to Cole and Phoebe, Bee drinks the blood too as "there's no draw with this Devil shit" and she's "the last demon".

Bee dies, but the 'Devil's Bible' that contains the ritual isn't completely destroyed and in a post-credits scene, we see it's still in one piece ready for whoever might want to try their luck next.

Does that mean we'll get a third movie? It's possible, especially since it could be that the cult members just go to limbo for two years as Max says, instead of fully dying after failing the ritual.

However, there's a finality to The Babysitter: Killer Queen that makes us think Cole's troubles are over for good.

The Babysitter: Killer Queen is now available to watch on Netflix.

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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.

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