A Monster under the Bed ?

Rating: 6/10 (9 February 2015)

I read a few newspaper and online reviews of The Babadook saying it was one of the scariest films ever made. I was planning on going to see it but while scrolling through the films available on the On Demand menu from my cable company I seen that it was available to view so I purchased it. It was a scary film but nowhere as scary as the reviews indicated. That might have been different I guess if viewed at a Theater in wide screen and Dolby Digital. The film more than focusing on the evil Babadook focused on the mental breakdown of the mother in the film and her young son who was just as batty. All children seen monsters under the bed and in the closet in this case those monsters are really there or are they. I wish there were more of a background of The Babadook it seems like it is exist in just from one children's book . The son/ child in the film Samuel played by Noah Wiseman when not saying lines that he is pretty good at just screams and screams at his mother Amelia (Essie Davis) who looses it more and more at each scream. It's not a great film but I can see some younger people and those scared easily having nightmares from it.