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The Babadook
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A six year old Samuel is becoming more and more difficult to handle by his widowed mother Amelia. He then starts to have dreams about a monster known as babadook. Things start to become eerie when a storybook called “The babadook” shows up at his home. Samuel is completely sure that his is the monster of his dreams and starts to belligerent. The mother doesn’t know what to do with him, so she starts to sedate him with medicine. She then also starts to feel some strange presence, and becomes convinced that it might be the same monster Samuel was talking about.
A six year old Samuel is becoming more and more difficult to handle by his widowed mother Amelia. He then starts to have dreams about a monster known as babadook. Things start to become eerie when a storybook called “The babadook” shows up at his home. Samuel is completely sure that his is the monster of his dreams and starts to belligerent. The mother doesn’t know what to do with him, so she starts to sedate him with medicine. She then also starts to feel some strange presence, and becomes convinced that it might be the same monster Samuel was talking about.
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October 05, 2016
There are legitimate terrors here -- legitimate because, as any bleary-eyed parent will verify, they come from a real and terrible place. And for those who do enjoy at least some defiance of natural laws, The Babadook has that too.
October 05, 2016
The Babadook's villains and victims are still running amok in my brain. I think they might be there for some time.
March 06, 2015
The line between terrifying reality and terrifying fantasy isn't so much blurred as altogether obliterated.
October 05, 2016
What's most terrifying about The Babadook is that Kent grounds a bizarre supernatural premise in very real feelings of anxiety and depression.
March 05, 2015
This simple yet shiver-inducing tale, the auspicious feature debut of Australian writer/director Jennifer Kent, makes for one of the better horror movies of recent times.
March 16, 2017
It's become increasingly rare for horror films to make an effort to truly scare us these days, but Jennifer Kent's 'The Babadook' gets under the skin in ways that are both visceral and highly emotional.
October 05, 2016
A deftly inventive and psychologically charged horror story that trades on the ways in which the prospect of maternal failure can be just as fearsome a boogeyman as any monster under the bed.
October 05, 2016
While short on terror this is a brilliantly acted and powerful film about a mother facing her demons.
March 05, 2015
It presents grief as a demon, questions reality, and creeps out the viewer by making psychopathology seem like something that could happen to anybody.
October 05, 2016
For her first feature, Australian actress-turned-filmmaker Jennifer Kent creates a startlingly effective horror movie by combining serious scariness with some darkly evocative emotion.
January 21, 2016
The film has a solid grasp on the mutable, but ever-present pain of loss.
January 15, 2015
At its heart, "The Babadook" is a story of mother and son, whose relationship ultimately determines whether they survive the demon - or die trying.