Baba-Spook

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2017)

All aboard for the heart-wrenching, tear inducing emotional ﻿﻿﻿﻿ride of the Babadook! A classic Australian family has been done wrong by the sudden death and removal from their lives with of their father and husband. The film., created in 2014 really takes audiences away from the new genre of horror that runs the world of horror, especially past 1990. The use of gore and outrageously uncomfortable situations to instill fear and blood-curling screams from the audience members is not the only way to terrify them anymore. Though, The Babadook, directed by Jennifer Kent, steers itself far from the horror, blood-stained, scream indulging path of the genre itself. Using psychological punches while the emotionally unstable, depressed mother cares, or tries to care for her overly loud, obsessive, needy. attention-deprived father Kent shows us slight glances into the ;ad of the Babadook and how it feeds on the negative feelings of children and doubtful parents. The spooky, imaginable creature-like man feeds on the lives of the despair. so it seems quite coincidental this child's book find itself on their shelf. The storybook character shows his dark, hideous, shadow filled face in the film, creating a possession over he mother who needs some help herself, though not from the child book devil. This possession of his mother leaves the son in terror and confusion throughout the film, until the slightly revealing end. Of course, like any good story book, this film leaves a cliff hanger. Audiences shouldn't prepare to scream, bring an extra pair of underwear, or where a turtleneck to cover your eyes. What audiences should do to prepare for this film? Open your eyes, check under the bed, in the closet, and behind the curtains!