My thoughts on the Babadook

Rating: 2/10 (17 November 2014)

Before you read this, I want to say that I love watching horror movies. I am a sucker for being scared and I absolutely love it. I couldn't wait for this movie to come out, I'd been waiting for it since the start of the year. I'd watched the trailer, talked out about it with friends and just couldn't wait for it to come out. However, having just watched it I was extremely disappointed and was struggling to watch the whole movie as I found myself bored and couldn't bare the acting.
The actors in this movie were just so annoying. It was a struggle to watch the boy and his mother, I just generally couldn't get over of how bad of actors they were which is why I'm very confused with how high of rating this film got. There were some brilliant shots in this movie, emphasizing how weak the mother is. I do no think that this movie should be classed as a horror, it had a very minimal scare factor and would much more suit the genre of a thriller. The character and voice of the Babadook also didn't cut it for me. It just seemed too fake and was not scary for me at all. I thought the idea of the book was really good, it was very intriguing and probably the only bit in the movie that I thought was spooky.