Review of The Babadook

I remember seeing the trailer for this and it looked interesting enough. However it didn't seem like something I would rush to see or hype about. Now I have been hearing a lot about it and so I decided to see for myself what this movie had to offer. It starts off pretty interestingly. I never thought about what my parents were dreaming about when I was a kid waking them up in the middle of the night whenever I couldn't sleep. It's interesting to see the strange relationship between the mother and son unfold. There is a lot of different ways to interpret what is going on between them. Some of those ways make a lot of sense while others are just rubbish. It's definitely uncomfortable when certain things happen though. That is one crazy and disturbed young boy. I don't know how I could deal with someone who acted the way he does. I thought this was very original and creepy. The Babadook itself kind of reminded me a little bit of Freddy Krueger except not so much with humor. This feels a lot like a fairytale that has gone horribly horribly wrong. It seemed like as the story went on the sanity of Amelia begins to go downhill and Samuels' sanity makes more sense. It is nice to see that a scary movie can rely on it's atmospheric attitude rather than constant jump scares. The ending was a bit odd, but overall this was very interesting to watch. I think it's not your typical kind of horror. The ending kind of made me think of Mama except done in a much better and different kind of way. I think it's good for a one time watch.