Can We Forget About This Film Already..?

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 2019)

Don't think me unpatriotic or unsupportive, being Australian, but I consider this way overrated piece of drivel to be one of this country's poorest films.I wish I'd made it though myself, for purely financial concerns but then I probably would have spent the rest of my life playing it down for artistic integrity. On an international level, it's like the general populace had been warned that they would all rot in Hell if they ever dared to dislike this film.Almost 'everyone' loves this miserable tale of a dreary modern day harridan going to pieces and taking it out on her poor defenseless child - (drumroll...enter the Babadook). It's like someone hitting you on the back of the head going "Isn't this priceless"?- "So freaky and scary". Get over it.If you want to see a true Australian masterwork of startling effect, then try Walkabout, Wake In Fright or Between Wars and bury this overpraised piece of piffle once and for all.