So much potential, so little resolution

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2014)

Babadook is an expansion of a ten minute short done by the director in earlier years. She should have kept it as a short and skipped the 'long' version. The pacing is.. well methodical I guess. The two actors do a good job, the photography is fine, the sound is a little over the top but what the film really lacks is a horror movie plot. Monster movies usually have a monster in them and Babadook plays games with the core element so much that by the time the movie ended I was confused, unsatisfied and scratching my head at the absence of a climax. Gave it a '3' because the lead actress was excellent, the kid did his role well and all the secondary characters were fine.
Any monster movie done reasonably well can have scary moments but there's gotta be more to it than loud noises and quick editing. Asking the audience to fill in the gaps doesn't cut it.
And no, its no 'Exorcist' or 'Haunting of Hill House', thats for sure.