it's about friggin' time!!! why do we have to shuffle through so much junk to find these?

Rating: 8/10 (4 December 2014)

Moves in alongside Audition, Devil's Backbone, Drag Me To Hell, Behind the Mask, Let the Right One In, Scream, Sinister, Pontypool, and The Decent as one of my top ten favorite horror flicks of the last two decades(just ahead of Drag Me To Hell #10 and Sinister at #9). There's been some others of late come close like I Saw the Devil, Maniac, Citadel, and a few others, but this is the kind of horror film that comes around once every couple of years if you're lucky.
When looking at the best over the last 5-10 years - the Aussies rule! I'm starting to watch more and more Aussie horror flicks lately because the ratio of good horror flicks versus bad one's from the Aussie's is strides better than what you'll find coming out of Hollywood "Babadook" has everything you want from a horror film. It's genuinely frightening, visually dazzling, and thought-provoking. The lead, Essie Davis, is absolutely fantastic. She definitely drives this film with a truly amazing performance, and the young Noah Wiseman is also great.
THe film doesn't rush, but it also doesn't drag. It builds to a Poltergeist like crescendo, and pins the viewer against their seat, clutching the armrest, and grinding their teeth.
Highly recommend this one! 84/100... will likely hold onto a top 10-15 spot come years end(which will likely be out of about 100 films, or at least that's about what I average per year), and that's high, recently rare praise for ANY horror flick. Not bad for a film I hadn't even heard of. Shame on Hollywood for spoon-feeding us all that crap this past Halloween when stuff like this should have been all the rage at your local theater. And 6.9? Really? I imagine this score will slowly rise to the 7.5 range, and even that seems a tad low IMO. Hope it helps. See it whether or not you're a fan of the genre.