Features one of the most hideously repellent child performances I have ever experienced in a movie. I am not a big fan of kids in general and the kid in this movie is everything I hate about them turned up to eleven. Fortunately, it turns out this was intended, and it really adds to the overall mood of the film.
This…so much this…it was torturous. Having kids of my own, this was an absolute nightmare. Granted, I definitely felt the anxiety that the mom felt. It’s a good movie. Definitely worth watching.
I heard about it on NPR and that was enough to know it would give me nightmares for years. Of course, that now draws me to see it. Not through spammed links to likely virus-infected sites, mind you (the above has been REPORTED)
That’s about my temperature with this as well. I don’t watch a ton of horror, but while there was some cool character examination, I didn’t find it very scary either.
I watched it on Amazon. I really enjoyed it, although I was slightly disappointed at some of the implications to the story that the ending brings to the table. Like Pyper, I loved the book sections and wish there had been more.
But…but…but…it was written by a woman. Cleve feels they’re an inferior creature made solely for the purpose of reproduction and shouldn’t be allowed to leave the kitchen! They’re almost as perplexing and troublesome to him as minorities!
If you want to see a really good Australian film (takes you back to a time before Oz movies turned into tragic state-subsidized socialist garbage) you MUST see this film “The Babadook.” It is superb.
I was shocked at how good it was. I have seen a series of horror movies lately, all terrible. I wish movies would move back to never showing graphic gore but scaring the crap out of you like that film.
From about page 450-453 of the Grimoire thread on RPG Codex.