Aug 17, 2015

The movie is really good except of the ending which was kinda 'expected' (Indon't want to spoil anything).
I'd recommend everybody to watch it tho, it was really scary.

 

Aug 17, 2015

 

Aug 17, 2015

Most horrifying movie ive seen in years

that sound is so f-----

 

Aug 17, 2015

Yep, got the blu-ray..and love it

 

Aug 17, 2015

It was just okay, it gets less scary as the movie wear on.

 

Aug 18, 2015

Loved it. I really enjoy movies like this that make me think for days. Great acting from the mother, Amelia, from Essie Davis.

Was it scary? I didn't think it was terrifying but yes, pretty scary. The most unsettling parts were when the mother read the book for the second time and when the Babadook jumped from the ceiling onto her (it had a jittery stop-motion effect which was eery).

Spoiler

Does anyone else who watched it think that the mom created the book? I read a theory somewhere that the mother made it while in an unconscious state in an attempt to relieve some of the grief. This was evident when a) she had char on her hands when going to the police (which was what the book was written with) b) she told the mothers that she used to write children's books c) when she yelled at her son she said "all you do is talk, talk, talk" similar to "dook, dook, dook" and d) in some instances she stood in the same manner as the Babadook, with her arms at her side and fingers extended.

 

Aug 19, 2015

The Babadook 2014
★★★½ Watched 19 Aug, 2015

Published at Aesthetics of the Mind:
aestheticsofthemind.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/the-babadook-kent-2014/

This was quite frustrating. The Babadook starts off so well, with abrupt cuts, a clean, somewhat minimalist mise-en-scene (in the vein of Stanley Kubrick), and sound effects effectively designed to startle. Through and through the film is superbly edited, shot, and lit, providing all the professionalism required for an exceptional horror film. Kent provides us with characters we learn to care about, and a mature vision of their psychological breakdown.

Then, it moves beyond the building of psychological authenticity into generic horror. What begins as a disturbing film exploring mental anxiety and human pain develops into a duplicitous shocker horror with a supernatural cause. Instead of retaining the horror of human madness (something like what The Shining does), Kent forgives the characters (son strangler and mother stabber alike) by allowing a real entity to take on responsibility for the happenings, and by extension the psychological journey and psychosis encountered. The end sees a family privileged to suddenly reset. This is much less terrifying than when life makes you crazy.

Could have been a masterpiece.

76/100 - Very Good.

 

Aug 19, 2015

I would like to believe all of what's in your spoiler, but there is too much against this theory. The Babadook is treated as a real and separate entity (kid sees it, she feeds it worms, after she pukes it up she's suddenly cured as if giving up being possessed etc.) If the film had taken entirely metaphorical means to illustrate her psychosis it would have worked much better. But it chooses to create a real entity + metaphorical psychosis. The problem is that the film complicates things by presenting it as if it both IS and ISN'T her doing it all, without anything concrete enough to discount either theory. It's a great film, but the ending is straight up convoluted.

 

Aug 19, 2015

How can anyone like this trash film