True Horror at it's Best

Rating: 10/10 (8 September 2015)

THIS MOVIE WAS AMAZING! The deep psychological horror of this movie defines the true meaning of terror. The fact that the husband dies in car wreck, and that Sam and Amelia are the only survivors, is scary enough. Amelia suffering of Oskar's death makes life hard to raise an annoying six year-old son, who is frequent in building homemade weapons and demanding attention. But it's the creature that ties this movie to its core. Mr. Babadook, a supernatural entity that haunts their quiet home, originates from a pop-up children's book Sam finds on his bookshelf.
The noises this creature makes gave me chills. I mean, who would want that whispered into their ears at night, only to get possessed by the creature and have it make you try to kill your son?
But what makes this movie great is the how Amelia's grief and the creature relate. Critics connect the creature's growing control of Amelia to her growing grief and stress from all pressure she gets about her husband. This leads many to think that it was Amelia that was the monster the whole time. That however, isn't the case. (Why have the book if it was the mother was the monster?) It wouldn't make sense.