The Babadock - Review: No spoilers in review, At the end of review I do talk about the ending though.

Rating: 4/10 (10 December 2014)

Main Review - w/o spoilers:
To me, this movie is like a mixture of The Shinning and The Conjuring. I really enjoyed the first half of this movie. The main kid was an annoying little brat but, if you've ever been a mother, then you would understand. Also, if you've been through what this kid has been through, then I think you would understand even more. I liked the mixture of psychological and the traditional horror aspects that were in this movie. The directing, the acting, the pacing, and the musical score (to me) were all fantastic; all aspects of this movie were executed very well. However, towards the end of this movie I felt abet fatigued. I thought the movie was going in a good direction and then, boom! What I ended up with was not satisfying to me at all. This movies ending to me is absolute crap. The movie hints at what could've been a very sad, depressing, and emotional ending but, all I was left with was a big F you. However, this is a good creepy horror movie. If you love horror like I do then I highly recommend this. However, you may think this movie is going in one direction and it's brilliant, but then all of your hopes and dreams are shattered and then, you're left with nothing. You might feel that way... you might not but, I sure as hell did.
Now to the ending: If I had made this movie... this is how I would have ended it.
The mother kills the boy at the end, the cops come and arrest her, the mother gets into the back of a squad car disorient, later we discover that the mother is hospitalized, the mother doesn't remember killing her son, the mother blames the death of her son on the Babadook locked up in the basement, a doctor tells the mother that there was nothing in the basement and, we cut or fade out to the mother crying and having a psychotic breakdown, and then doctors rush in to hold her down... roll credits. The mother should have killed the boy. I know that's sick and sad but, that's what they we're hinting at. They had the balls to kill the dog but, they didn't have the balls to kill the boy and, they didn't have the balls to end this as a psychological horror movie rather then your all out ghost traditional crap. If the mother had killed the boy and we got a sad ending, then I'd give this movie a 10.