Review - The Babadook
The Babadook (2014), NR, 93 minutes - I've never been a big fan of the horror genre, but despite that, it seems that in each of the last few years, there have been one or two films from the genre that I end up really appreciating. Two years ago it was Cabin in the Woods, in 2013 it was Mama, and it's looking like The Babadook will be that film for 2014. The Babadook is an Australian film written and directed by Jennifer Kent about a single mother named Amelia (Essie Davis) who is trying to cope with her son Samuel's (Noah Wiseman) basic childhood fear of monsters. Each night, she checks all of the usual monster haunts to show him there are no monsters lurking about. Then one night she reads him a bed time story from a mysterious pop-up book that he finds on his bookshelf called Mister Babadook. His fear and paranoia increase dramatically and he begins acting out not only in school but in other social settings with other children such as his cousin's birthday part...