Psycho and The Omen, meet Babadook

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2017)

***Spoiler Alert*** A mother and son have a relationship that can be compared to that of Psycho and The Omen. Amelia is reeling from the traumatic death of her husband, while this is completely normal-it has been occurring for years. Never having the chance to properly grieve her husband's death, her son Samuel, becomes the focal point. This movie parallels The Omen, in that Samuel is perceived as a sort of monster who drives his mother insane. He is relentless in feeding onher emotions and subjecting her to his tantrums and horrible behavior. Samuel makes his mother's life a living nightmare, she cannot escape him and he has no intention of letting her go. As the movie progresses,the similarities of Samuel and Damien, shift to that of Amelia and Norman's "Mother". Samuel has an unhealthy attachment to his motheralways stating that he needs to be near her and that they need to protect each other. Amelia is slowly exposed as being the cause of Samuel's misconduct and frightful imagination. Closing in on Samuel's birthday, Amelia begins her steady and yearly decline into a disastrous state of mind. Samuel knows how to care for Amelia and is not truly scared of her while she is in this altered state. Paying attention to minor details in this movie is what proves this all stems from Amelia. Samuel then breaks away to show that he is the caretaker for his mother and that he knows this is not who she truly is. Samuel starts off has being the most disliked character in the movie to only prove that he is doing all that he can with limited resources.