Would have been OK if it wasn't so darn irritating

Rating: 2/10 (9 May 2015)

OK. I think this movie is trying to put a physical presence to mental illness, which could have worked really well but didn't.
As a single mum with young boys and having gone through separation and depression I could see where the writer was trying to go. The monster or babadook is the illness, the mothers disconnection with her son who she clearly blames for her husbands death comes from her depression and her increasing cruel outbursts when she sinks deeper and deeper into mental illness - however, the mothers haggared weak sleep deprived portrayal was so over the top I kind of wished her son would shoot her in the head with his catapult and put an end to my misery of having to watch her. For this film to work I really wanted to invest in the mum and go on the journey with her - instead it was all I could do not to throw something at my TV or turn the movie off.
The son, I thought did a fantastic job as did the old lady next door.
I'm not sure about the babadook thing, I mean - really 3 knocks.
All up I think the idea was good but ditch the babadook guy, who incidentally looks like a cross between the crow and slash from guns and roses and make the mum a normal, hard working, believable mum not a zombie that looks like she escaped from the walking dead!