Not as scary as people made it out to be?

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2015)

I've watched "It Follows" and heard that "The Babadook" would also be a good horror to film to watch. I thought it would be this decade's "The Exorcist" or a re-inventing of the horror genre, but it left me empty. For one, the little kid was very annoying and I didn't care much for him. I didn't feel much chemistry between him and his mother and the dead father thing didn't do much for the story. In terms of the horror, it was pretty good, but could've been a whole more scarier. Something like "The Conjuring" is what I had hoped this film would have been like. Maybe it was down to the lack of characters, but I don't know. I think "It Follows" was actually a better horror film, which is weird because by the trailer, this looked more frightening. I'd give this a 7/10 and It Follows an 8/10. But still, it's better than the new Poltergeist and a lot of new horror films.