The Babadook (2014)

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Simply dreadful.Obviously a very limited budget, so well done on that score, but so disappointing.The story is poor. You don't have to have all the effects if the story's good, and you can create terror just as much from something unseen as you can from the visual, but this is way off the mark. It goes from one stupid scenario to the next, with a dour palette inside a house that is seemingly from the mid-eighties. If this is set in that timeline, it's not made clear, although in the ensemble's clothing and the protagonist's car it would seem that way. Nobody has a mobile phone, but the telephones seem modern.The cast is far too limited when the main characters are this weak, and I didn't find myself rooting for either the flaky mother or the annoying child. Aside from those points, this is meant to be a horror film, and there wasn't a second of it that was enough to make the hairs on my arms stand up. The clichés are all there: dull, creepy house, unstable parent, the knowing child, a concerned neighbor, incredulous police and of course a cellar. The 'Babadook' (what a ridiculous name!) is less scary than some of the costumed revellers I see walking the streets with buckets of sweets in hand at Halloween. Not that you really see it.The ending is so awful. And not in a good way.If you're easily scared, or a child under the age of 12, you may love this. If I'd seen this at the cinema, I'd have asked for a refund.

It's really good to see a female director make a really good horror movie and a good movie in general. Great job!

The Babadook has remained with me since I saw it a couple years ago. It is beyond horror, for it digs at themes much deeper and more lasting. Painful to watch and eternally chilling.

The Babadook is a australian horror movie about a mother and her son who after the loss of their father/ husband are possesed by a spirit who is trying to kill them both. The cast of the babadook are Essie Davis,Noah Wiseman,Hayley McElhinney ,Daniel Henshall,Barbara West,Benjamin Winspear and Chloe Hurn the main cast had there moments of great acting but overall it wasen't very good. The story and visual effects were probably the best thing to come out of this movie because they were unique and strange but with the tone of the movie it makes sense that the story was strange and the efffects were stranger and the book and the babadook creatre were cool as well. Overall the babadook has some cool parts to it and parts enjoyed and i do think that in it's own way it was different and had some cool parts but the acting could have been better the story could have more action and the scares needed to be better and the ending could have been explianed a little better to the audience so i did not like it and i wouldn't watch it again and it needed to be better.