BABADOOK MOVIE TRAILER MOVIE

Although many frightening events happen and stylish, brooding set pieces are deployed with harrowing effect, once itвЂ™s all over the audience is left with the question as to whether or not the Babadook was actually real. Yet even Amelia starts freaking out, seeing things on her own, losing her grip on reality as her son only dives deeper into his fear. Thus (spoiler warning), after Amelia reads Samuel a new book which has suddenly appeared in his room called вЂњThe BabadookвЂќ, he appropriately starts freaking out, deathly afraid of the titular beast and suddenly causing even more of a ruckus with AmeliaвЂ™s friends who are genuinely disturbed by the fact that this maturing little boy still believes in monsters. Unique twists and bold choices will always play better than cookie-cutter horror tropes lined up for their predictable, inevitable slaughter. They actually show up because of neatly-executed premises. Much like an actor with bad training, playing the intention of вЂњIвЂ™m making a horror filmвЂќ is an insipid way to make a creative work aiming more for the end effect than creating actual substance fails to recognize the fact that audiences arenвЂ™t gore-loving sheeple. Kent knows that great horror films work because they prioritize atmosphere over jump scares.Д®ven more than that, she knows that great horror films arenвЂ™t really about scary monsters and super freaks. Much like one of the other truly great horror films of the past 20 years, Neil MarshallвЂ™s The Descent, The Babadook wastes little time in letting the audience know that theyвЂ™re in for a serious ride, one that doesnвЂ™t pull any punches or play with cheap shock effects (fun fact: both open with car crashes). All the while, Amelia buffs passes from a nursing home co-worker while trying to keep it all together, her frustration with SamuelвЂ™s reckless behavior becoming so much that her sanity begins to slowly slip. At one point he brings homemade weapons to school, leading to him being expelled. Not fully mentally prepared to be a single mother, Amelia nonetheless does all she can to give the imaginative Samuel all she can, even though emotionally heвЂ™s a bit outspoken, training to hunt imaginary monsters that only he can see. The Babadook, a feature-length expansion of actress Jennifer KentвЂs short Monster, tells the story of a woman named Amelia (Essie Davis) who is still reeling from the passing of her husband who died while driving her to the hospital for her to deliver their son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman). Yet before you immediately start pulling out your comparison sheets to make correlations between Mama or a peak-era Michael Douglas sexual thriller about a вЂњdangerousвЂќ female protagonist, some context is in order.

BABADOOK MOVIE TRAILER MOVIE

The reason why The Babadook is being called one of the scariest horror films in recent memory is because it is not a movie about a monster.

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