A perfect creepy horror

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2015)

As a big horror fan, I was looking forward to the babadook and it was a brilliant watch. It's basically a good old fashioned boogeyman story about a widow mum, who's left bringing up her needy little boy who has some behaviour issues. A book (mr babadook) appears and the mum reads it but soon realises the content is not for children as it tells the story of mr babadook who comes into your room at night and terrorizes you.. And that's what he does. Once she reads the book, mr babadook starts to appear. Pretty freaked out she burns the book but it comes back re written with an evil end about a mum killing her boy. There are many similar boogeyman / ghost movies but this one was different. It feels real with lots of tension. I won't give too much away but the ending is great, as mr babadook is real. The mum and child set a trap and kind of end up keeping him forever!
The mum is fantastic at playing a drained widow and equally the little boy plays quite the brat, but you cannot help but feel sorry for them both. I would recommend this film and I watched it again a few weeks later.