A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, on Netflix
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This was released in 2020, but I didn't see it until 2025. It's based on a series of books I haven't read. I found it reasonably entertaining, though of course it was meant for younger viewers.

When Kelly Ferguson was five years old, she was attacked by a monster while she was in bed at night. Now, as a teenager, the other kids in her high school call her "Monster Girl", to her chagrin. An older kid is throwing a Halloween party at his house, and Kelly and her friend decide to attend. (I was surprised we don't really see much of her friend in the movie, like he was just included as someone for her to briefly talk with as exposition.) Unfortunately, Kelly's mom has volunteered her to babysit for her boss's son, Jacob, that night.

Jacob ends up being kidnapped by a trio of small CGI monsters. Then another girl named Liz LeRue shows up, looking for monsters. She's part of a worldwide order of babysitters who hunt monsters, using all kinds of high tech and magical equipment. Liz calls the monsters that kidnapped Jacob "Toadies". She and Kelly spend the next few hours trying find and rescue Jacob. At one point they go to the party Kelly wanted to attend, where she interacts with her crush, Victor. They also go to the order's headquarters, where Kelly meets a few other monster hunters. It turns out that there is a whole group of "Boogey people", one of whom is called the Grand Guignol (Tom Felton, who in this role kind of reminds me of Rumple from Once Upon a Time). He's the one who sent the Toadies to kidnap Jacob, because the kid has the ability to bring his nightmares to life, and the Grand Guignol wants to use him to raise an army of nightmares, to use against all of humanity.

I guess that's all I want to reveal of the plot, but of course there's a happy ending. I kind of wish the movie would have had one or more sequels, but it's probably too late, now. I guess it didn't do that well with critics, and I have no idea how many views it got. But I liked it, anyway. I'm not too disappointed that there were no sequels, though. It wasn't anything amazing, just... fine.