The absolute best horror movie since The Shining and Silence of the Lambs

Rating: 8/10 (8 February 2017)

There is way to much to say about this movie, it was one of the greatest horror movies I've ever seen (The Shining still remains my favorite).
The first thing I'm gonna talk about here is the lighting; this is the greatest lighting you will ever see in a movie. It makes EVERY SINGLE SCENE terrifying. Even the scenes when nothing was happening, and the mom and her son are just sitting there. You have the most unsettling feeling watching this movie, and I think that about 60% of the reason this movie was so horrifying was the lighting.
The Camera Work: This is some of the best camera-work I've ever seen in a movie. Just like the lighting, it gives you this terrible feeling like you know something is going to happen. The camera-work in this movie I think is some of the best, I would say maybe the fifth best I've seen (behind Gravity, La La Land, Saving Private Ryan,and The Shining).
The Acting: The acting in this movie was pretty good, I liked the child actor, he did a great job portraying an annoying b*tchy kid, but you could understand what he was going through. The lead actress does an amazing job actually, and I personally think she deserved to have been nominated for Best Actress in the 2014 Academy Awards. She wouldn't have won because the Academy doesn't like Horror, Action, or Sci-fi movies for the important awards (excluding Silence of the Lambs). The leading character almost reminded me of Jack from The Shining, you're just slowly watching this character descend into madness, but unlike the Shining, there is a resolution in the end.
The Story: I really enjoyed this story, like I said, you're kind of watching our lead character slowly go mad from the evil presence that haunts her. It's more than just the modern day cliché horror movie that all have the same plot. The plot of those movies are: A creepy kid does something creepy, the relative of the kid tries to help, the demon attacks the person, they get rid of the demon, the end. That is not what this movie is at all, it's way darker, way scarier, and doesn't rely completely on jump scares to carry the movie to the finish. Every modern horror movie except this and It Follows relies on jump scares. Lights Out, Annabelle, all Paranormal Activity sequels after the first one. They're all the same. The Babadook does something different and new, and I feel like not enough people saw this amazing movie.
Critical Acclaim: It's rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 98%, Metascore is 86, it won 46 awards. IMDb decided to give it a 6.8/10, and that is criminal. That is the lowest rating of a movie I enjoyed so much. IMDb needs to give good movies a better rating (The Revenant, Zero Dark Thirty, Gravity, any Wes Anderson film, The Babadook).