This Movie Is A Zillion Times Better Than The Ones James Wan Is Making Nowadays.

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2014)

A very scary Australian horror film about a mysterious figure named Mister Babadook. The film is the directorial debut of Australian writer and actress Jennifer Kent. I always appreciate the fact that the director is a woman, since there are so few female directors in the movie industry.
There are some very good films by other female directors, namely Pet Cemetery(Mary Lambert) and Ravenous(Antonia Bird), American Psycho(Mary Harron), The Piano(Jane Campion), Boys Don't Cry(Kimberly Peirce), Big(My favorite Penny Marshall film starring Tom Hanks), Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow), Look Who's Talking(Amy Heckerling), Children of a Lesser God (Rhanda Haines). I am feel extremely privileged to have seen some of these films in my teenage years.
Back to the film: it is about a young mother who has been recently widowed. She has a hyperactive son who does not sleep at all during the night and so she has not slept well for a long time. One night, Sam asks his mother to read from a mysterious pop-up storybook he found on his shelf. The story, titled "Mister Babadook", is about a supernatural creature that, once someone is made aware of its existence, torments that person indefinitely. Amelia is disturbed by the book's contents, while a traumatized Sam becomes convinced that the Babadook is stalking them in their home.
Soon Amelia also starts to feel the presence of something malevolent lurking in the house, trying to make itself known.
The film shows Amelia(Essie Davis) as a woman who is starved from sexual relations due to the death of her husband in an accident. There is a scene in the film which shows her relieving herself with a vibrating dildo under blanket. Added to this is the frustrating job of earning a living and taking care of her son all by herself.
The main thing that makes this film work is pop-up book about Mister Babadook which is one of the most gruesome I have ever seen. The terrifying rhymes in the book, pertaining what Mister Babadook will do, adds to the horror. The sound effects and special effects are spot on and extremely satisfying.
There is just one problem to this film, and it can be excused since it is Jennifer Kent's first film - the ending to the film is very poorly executed. Make no mistake - this film is going to be a cult film in the days to come and maybe sequels to this film be made.
I have watched a similar film like this one: Boogeyman a 2005 horror film which has 2 sequels.
Jennifer Kent, I wish you all the best for your future projects. And may you continue making horror films for fans like me.