The Babadook
(2014) Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, and Tim Purcell
So, I’d really been looking forward to this film, since I’d heard about it. The trailer was awesome, and I’d heard generally only good things about it. It was really just my own apathy that was stopping me from watching it. I’ve been really bad the last 2-3 years or so, in keeping up with shows and movies. No matter how good it looks, or how much I already like a series, I can’t seem to get myself to care enough to watch. But anyways, I’m babbling again… So I finally got around to watching this last week, and by that time, my expectations for the film were very high, with all the positive reviews I’d heard. Ultimately too high, I think. It wasn’t a bad film, but it was nowhere near as good as I was expecting. It was only 93 minutes long, but it felt like 3 hours. It had a few really good, tense scenes, but it wasn’t quite enough to keep me totally engrossed. I’m also of the idea that less is more when it comes to movie villains, especially ghostly things, and I feel that we saw too much of the creature, and that made it much less scary, and actually a little silly. And that ending… it was one of the more ridiculous things I’ve seen. And don’t get all high and mighty on me, telling me I didn’t get it. I get mental illness, believe me. But that was ridiculous. In the end, it was a good idea that just kinda got lost along the way. It gets a decent 7/10 from me.
This film is not currently on Netflix, nor is there a copy on YouTube. But if you wait a bit, I’m sure it’ll come on soon.
M.
Soooo agree about the trailer being awesome. That scared me more than the film and I’m not kidding! It’s weird, you know when he’s saying “Baba…..dook” in the low, scary voice? During the trailer that scared the shit out of me (I threw my phone across the floor in fear!) but during the film it sounded kind of corny to be honest!
I didn’t find him scary at all, and we saw too much of him, so that didn’t help either.
Shame you didn’t find him scary at all, I definitely did!
He was creepy when he was just that voice and a shadow. Once I saw him, I found him more silly than scary.
I know what you mean entirely, he did scare me but the voice I found kind of funny. It’s weird – I found the voice the corniest thing in the movie. Yet in the trailer it scared me so much!!!
There’s a chimney on a house opposite where I live that is the silhouette of him haha – the hat and the arms! I noticed it a little while ago and made me smile / shiver lol.