Terrifying!

Rating: 9/10 (27 October 2014)

This being what I would say is the most terrifying movie ever, The Babadook shows you that evil can lurk anywhere. The film is set in a Australian town and follows Amelia and her son Samuel. The film starts on a car accident that includes Amelia and her husband, it happened whilst on the way to the hospital to give birth to her son. Six years later, Samuel begins to have nightmares about a monster that he thinks will kill him in real life. Then, one night, Samuel wants his mother to read him a story, so he goes on his shelf and finds a book named 'Mister Babadook'. After this a mysterious presence starts to terrorise the family and sends the mother into a paranoid mess. This movie avoids the cliché jump scares and still makes the audience feel like they would rather be somewhere else. The terrifying film is director Jennifer Kent's first and will certainly not be her last