A superb parable, a subtle nod to depression, an ode to struggling parents everywhere

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 2017)

You think lifting cars with your bare hands to save your trapped baby is a big deal? Well, meet Amelia, an exhausted, distraught widow, who takes her motherly love pledge to the absolute extreme by expelling a putrid demon out of her just as it is about to guide her own hands into massacring her petrified son; making us all look like amateur parents in the process.
How?
By grabbing onto the fraying emotional bond she shares with her troubled offspring and riding it all the way to salvation like a boss. Not badass enough for you?
How about getting all up in the face of malevolence, whipping the beast down to absolute submission and keeping it in her basement as a freaking pet?
And for the parents reading, please consider that not only is she a single parent but said offspring is a challenging, loud, insomniac 6-year-old and not once, not once! was she even tempted to let The Babadook just babysit for a while.