Jungian horror story

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2015)

This movie is brilliant, the more I think about it the clearer it gets. It's not a horror movie, it's actually a psychological drama about grief, depression, rage, anger, resentment and all other difficult emotions.
The Babadook doesn't exist in reality, it exist in the mind of the main character. She has been trying to suppress it for 7 years since the accident that killed he husband. You can see that she feels resentment towards her son, you can see that thru the movie in her actions and words, just like the book said (If it's in a word. Or it's in a look. You can't get rid of ... The Babadook). She rejects her sons affection in few scenes. She's resentful and angry and she can't hide it, it wants to come out. Mother is devastated by her husbands death, she blames herself and her son because of the fact that he was born on the day of the accident and the accident happened while they were driving to hospital to give birth to him.
She keeps all her husbands belongings and memories of him in the basement which in my opinion represents her subconscious mind, she refuses to talk about it and gets upset every time someone mentions it. The world expects her to move one but she can't. So she's suppressing those difficult emotions, trying to be "normal" avoiding to face them but they can't be suppressed, the more she tries the monster becomes bigger and scarier. She actually created it, its not some paranormal entity, it's real. At one point she mentions the fact that she used to write children books before which can point us to the possibility that she's the one who made the book. No one ever actually sees the book except her and her son but it's not really clear if he can see what she's seeing or he's just getting scared by the story she's telling. Its seems that the book is a creation of her mind, of the part of her mind that she's not even aware of, the part that is about to get out. Her son is aware of this, he's aware of his mother's shadow and he's trying to protect them both.
The shadow or the Babadook is there all the time, lurking in the shadows, hunting her dreams, dictating her actions more and more until it completely overwhelms her. So eventually she faces the shadow head on, she acknowledge it's existence which made the shadow deflate instantly. After that shadow runs away and hide in the basement, into subconscious but this time mother knows about it and she doesn't try to suppress it, she goes there and face it every day, she take a bowl of worms there to feed it. She's aware of the fact that the shadow will never go away but now she learned how to live with it.
Its just brilliant, I don't know if the attention to details was intentional (I don't see why it wouldn't be) or not but the psychological aspect of this movie is just brilliant. Its a horror story with monsters and everything else that comes with the label but at the same time its real, it shows real humans and their emotions, problems of grief, depression, loss, difficulties of single parenting.
So kudos to the director. We need more woman horror directors that's for sure. And great acting by the protagonists there. just brilliant.