The Babadook - Reviews

...the movie has an emotional intensity uncommon to its genre, thanks mostly to its principal performance: Coming unraveled gradually, her stress curdling into abusive rage, Davis offers an alarming portrait of maternal affection...

...the finest and mostgenuinely provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century.

...clever, nasty, clammily claustrophobic chiller about a mother and child brought back a strange episode in my own parenting career.

It’s genuinely scary in its jump moments, but also imparts a lingering sense of dread that will stay with you for days — and will definitely come to mind the next time you wake up in the middle of the night...

Ambiguity fuels the terror, and The Babadook is all the better — and scarier — for it. How admirable for a movie like this to completely sidestep easy answers and tidy resolutions. Effective, too.

Australian writer/director Jennifer Kent makes a stunningly assured feature filmmaking debut with this unnerving thriller...

...Essie Davis’ skildring af karakterens psykiske deroute er voldsomt effektiv...

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