A bedtime story turns into a dreadful incubus

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2019)

"THE BADADOOK is a small-scale, low-budget horror feat, economically ekes out the hair-raising imagery of its titular creature (you never catch its entirety but it haunts from the ground up), but smartly uses it as a surrogate of one's inescapable grief. Amelia Vanek (Davis) is a single mother, whose husband Oscar (Winspear) died in a car accident when driving her to deliver their baby, six years later, the behavior of her son Samuel (Wiseman) becomes increasingly erratic after being startled by a pop-up book called Mr. Babadook, he has been always imagining some monster presence at home, but this time, Mr. Babadook's menacing influence starts to get the better of a jaded and distraught Amelia, who begins to lose her marbles and even goes filicidal just as the book portends."
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