One of the best horror movies I've seen in recent memory.

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2015)

First of all don't expect this to be a monster movie, The Babadook is more of a psychological/supernatural thriller that forces on the dark nature of grief and depression.
The movie stars Essie Davis who gives an Oscar worthy performance in this movie as our main character; a single/widowed mother who lives with her obnoxious son played by Noah Wiseman who has weapons that would be handy in Home Alone.
This movie captured the perfect atmosphere of a good horror movie, major props to director Jennifer Kent for her directorial debut, she is someone who clearly knows how to setup a surreal scary environment, something the classics and some other good horror films in the past couple years nailed with perfection.
The plot evolves around Amelia Vannick (Davis) who is coping with grief while putting up with her son Samuel (Wiseman) and after she reads him a graphic book called "Mister Babadook" a story about a dark creature that lurks in the darkness, and soon after reading it strange things start to happen, like the story is becoming more and more real and begins to torment the family to the point Amelia goes insane and possibly possessed and tries to kill her son.
This is one of the scariest I've ever seen, when I first saw this movie I was terrified. I saw it for the first time on DVD, and I even watched in a dark basement, and after that I closed all open doors because this movie was really scary. There are a few tiny things I that I have to nitpick. For example: The kid is very annoying, however to the film's credit, he's supposed to be and that helps us sympathize with Amelia and it makes her a sympathetic character who is dealing with grief, depression, and ultimately stress and frustration. Another thing is that there are a couple scenes that were kind of short and it was felt a little jumbled, but that's just me nitpicking.
However the little afore mentioned problems don't really bother me that much, as I said the kid was supposed to be annoying. This movie also reminds me of "The Shining", one of my favorite horror films of all time. There's basic stuff like the horror sub genre, and the atmosphere of the movie. There are also a few moments too, for example: the mother yelling at her son when she gets fed up with him, and in the climax when she's crazy, Samuel says something, Amelia mocks him and talks about bashing his brains in, great stuff, I love it! If you hadn't seen this movie, I'd highly recommend you see it, but as I said don't expect to be a "creature feature" because it's not. I give this film two thumbs way up!