It's not about an entity

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2017)

I'm tired of people mistaking this for a regular monster movie. It's NOT about an entity or a scaring creature.
*** spoiler ***
It's about a mother who hates her own child. The whole fear we see in the movie comes from the imminent danger of her killing her son.
But such hate feeling is too terrible for them (mother and son) to acknowledge, so the Babadook is an allegory their minds create to deal with it without addressing it directly.
The concept is unusual and the performances are priceless. A really deep deep and strong movie.