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In Berkshire County, Canadian-born actress Alysa King, as the babysitter, is terrorized by pig-mask-wearing psychos with unconventional ideas on what constitutes the other white meat.

According to the closing credits, this low-budget suspense-horror feature was inspired by actual events.

One suspects the "actual events" involved first-time director Audrey Cummings at one point in her life watching better babysitter thrillers such as Halloween or When a Stranger Calls, because Berkshire County is nothing close to original.

Alysa King acquits herself well as a bullied, buxom, self-loathing loner who dresses up as Little Red Riding Hood for a high school party, where she falls prey to a leering wolf of a boy.

When a video of their sexual encounter hits the Internet, she is slut-shamed at school. Upset, She retreats home (just long enough for a gratuitous shower scene), before heading to a country manor for a babysitting assignment on Halloween.

Things go oink in the night when the girl is terrorized by pig-mask-wearing psychos, who have unconventional ideas on what constitutes the other white meat.

We get to see what our hero is made of, but despite its tricks, Berkshire County is a redundant treat.

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