Seen Better

Rating: 3/10 (4 March 2018)

This is the first review I have ever written, I usually don't write reviews but as a fan of horror and scary movies, I feel compelled to share my thoughts for the benefit of other scary movie lovers. I found the movie to be pretty slow and a lot of the scenes were repetitive. I also wasn't a huge fan of how little background music their was, it made it feel really bland. Some of the scary and creepy scenes weren't very satisfying either, not necessarily just because there weren't that many jump scares, but more because they just weren't as creepy as they could have easily been. The end of the movie also wasn't that satisfying, from what I understand the movie and plot are metaphors of some sort but I feel like that metaphor wasn't presented as clearly or deeply as it could have been, in fact I didn't really get it at first and even after reading some explanations of the ending I still felt like there were missing connections and overall it was just a weak execution. I would've also loved to have seen more of the babadook and learned more about its origin, appearance, powers, and objective. I think some of the characters weren't very well developed either and we didn't really get to know them. Basically, it was alright, nothing noteworthy.