The Babadook
- Horror Sub-Genre: Psychological
- Release Year: 2014
- Runtime: 1 Hour 34 Minutes
- Rating: NR (Unrated)
- Star Rating: 4 Stars
- Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia is at her wit's end struggling to discipline her "out-of-control" 6-year-old son, Samuel. When a disturbing storybook called "Mister Babadook" turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he's been dreaming about. Soon, Amelia begins to see the monster herself, leading to a harrowing descent into paranoia.
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What Critics Are Saying About "The Babadook"
- "A deftly inventive and psychologically charged horror story that trades on the ways in which the prospect of maternal failure can be just as fearsome a boogeyman as any monster under the bed." - Jason Bailey, Flavorwire
- "It presents grief as a demon, questions reality, and creeps out the viewer by making psychopathology seem like something that could happen to anybody." - Thomas Lee, San Francisco Chronicle
- "The Babadook makes a convincing argument for classy, psychological horror cinema even as it fails to meet its own lofty standard." - Michael Phillips, The Chicago Tribune