Watch out for the Babadook

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2019)

***SPOILER ALERT***
The Babadook is a very highly praised film by many critics and movie lovers alike. This film has many surprising and unpredictable aspects to it. One of the most loved aspects of this film is the monster that is the Babadook. He represents your inner most fears as well as the truth hiding inside of us all. This film uses many techniques to help instill terror in its viewers as well as to show the real us. In this film, while reading the Babadook book, the mother Amelia, sees her "inner most desires" which are murdering her family. The Babadook pulls out our inner darkest desires which are more than irrational. The film paints Amelia as almost going insane worrying about the Babadook coming to visit her, and see starts seeing him everywhere, watching her every move. The Babadook also visits Amelia's son Samuel. He sees the monster before his mother ever does and she thinks that he is just making up crazy little kid stories. By the end of the film, we have seen the Babadook and seen how it takes over your life to fulfill your inner most desires. We also get to see the true terror of what the Babadook actually is. He is like a mix of a demon and a person all in one. He knows how to get in your mind and never leave. The Babadook is an allegory painted for us about our deepest darkest inner desires. He shows us what our souls truly want and in the most terrifying way possible. It is terrifying because it is what we actually want to be true and we realize how horrible we actually are. This film is a critically acclaimed horror film because it is so amazingly directed and portrayed to the viewers. I would recommend this film to anyone and everyone. Just don't forget to sleep with he lights on so the Babadook doesn't visit your mind tonight!