The Babadook

Starring Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman.

Directed and written by Jennifer Kent.

Partially funded through Kickstarter. Released in May in Australia, October in the UK, and Nov 28th in the US.

Prior to release, this was getting a ton of buzz. It’s reviewing very well.

Dammit don’t watch that trailer just before you go to bed.

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.

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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)

I didn’t find it all that scary even though I liked the premise. Then again, I watch so many horrors, I may be a little desensitized ;)

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 loved the book pieces and wished it was a bit more like them. The movie was decent otherwise (it was on demand from Comcast).

There were times that I really wished it would get on with the story though.

Man, this is nowhere near me. Here’s another trailer.

Edit: Found it. Will see It this weekend.

Google Play and Amazon have it available for streaming.

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.

Cleve Blakemore highly recommends this film. Really.

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.

I wonder if he knows it was written and directed by a woman? Or that it was primarily state funded (i.e. a socialist endeavor in his eyes)?

But thanks for reminding me I haven’t checked in on ol’ Cleve in a while. I need to catch up on his latest blatherings.

Good films I really try to see in a theater house. Scary ones are great with a crowd. Hopefully I will get the chance.

Oh, fuck that.

Why? He looks friendly. He’s smiling. See?