Genre: Drama Horror Thriller
Cert: 15 cert
Director: Jennifer Kent
Screen writer: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis , Daniel Henshall , Tim Purcell ,Tiffany Lyndall-Knight , Noah Wiseman , Benjamin Winspear , Cathy Adamek , Adam Morgan ,Craig Behenna , Michael Gilmour , Hayley McElhinney , Carmel Johnson , Barbara West , Michelle Nightingale , John Maurice
Running time: 93 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A woman uses a vibrator in her bed, but is interrupted by her child. This takes place under the covers so only the woman's head is visible throughout the sequence.
Violence & Gore: - A young boy makes homemade weapons including a dart gun and baseball launcher to use in defense against an imaginary monster. He brings some of these weapons to school.
- A young boy proclaims loudly that he is going to "Smash (the monster's) head in".
- A young boy pushes a young girl out of a tree house. She is not seen hitting the ground, but she is seen on the ground crying with visible blood around her nose. Her mother later states that her nose was broken in two places.
- A pop-up children's book is read to a young child, which includes thinly veiled violent threats. The child is severely disturbed.
- A pop-up children's book appears a second time, this time depicting a woman graphically snapping her dog's neck, strangling her child and slitting her own throat in addition to the previous material.
- A young boy yells at his mother "Do you want to die?".
- A woman is drinking soup when she bites down on a piece of glass. There is blood on the glass when she removes it from her mouth. When she ladles through her soup bowl, several other pieces of glass are found.
- A woman crashes her car into an oncoming vehicle while suffering a panic attack. Her young child is in the car with her. No one is injured, but she drives away from the scene.
- A monster-like figure drops onto a woman twice. We see the woman scream, but the impact is not seen.
- A woman dreams that she sees her young son dead. Blood is over his shirt and face.
- A woman threatens a young boy with a large kitchen knife.
- A woman snaps her pet dog's neck and it is killed. The dog is seen struggling and whining for several moments, but most takes place offscreen. The dog's body is seen being thrown on the ground, but nothing bloody or graphic is seen. A small boy later enters the room and sees the dead dog.
- A woman pulls a tooth from her mouth. She yanks at it for several seconds and crunching noises are heard. There is blood shown after it comes loose.
- A young boy shoots a woman in the arm with a dart gun, hits her in the head with a baseball and trips her with a tripwire as she is walking down a flight of stairs, causing her to hit her head on an overhang and stumble down the remainder of the stairs. No blood is seen.
- A young boy stabs a woman in the leg with a large kitchen knife. Minimal blood is seen.
- A woman strangles a young boy violently. Close-ups of his face are seen.
- In a hallucination/dream sequence, a man's head is split horizontally and the top half falls away from the bottom. This is not done in a realistic or particularly violent way. The man falls to the floor and his brain is seen inside his skull. Again, this is not particularly violent or realistic. It is silent and no blood is seen, the image is horrific but dreamlike.
- A woman vomits copious amounts of a black, blood-like substance.
- A young boy is seen dragged up the stairs and thrown against the wall twice by an unseen entity
Profanity: - Two uses of f word, directed at a small child
- Minimal profanity throughout. Several sparse incidences of the words 'crap' and 'bitch'.
- A woman yells at her child to "eat shit".
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: none
Frightening/Intense Scenes: - A boy suffers a seizure whilst yelling at an invisible monster. He thrashes and convulses onscreen for several seconds. He also suffers a similar attack in his home, yelling "Don't let it in!" loudly and repeatedly while seeming to suffer extreme shock.
- The pop-up children's book featured in the film is graphic and can be quite intense when it is being read or viewed.
- There are several intense scenes featuring a monster that is often shadowed and appears suddenly. The sound the monster makes is also incredibly scary. These scenes can be extremely frightening.
- The themes of this film are very intense. A very young boy is put in several frightening situations and some may find this quite confronting.
- Definite trigger warnings for anyone who had a violent or abusive relationship with parents, especially those who were threatened or assaulted by a parent.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Likes : The Babadook is a 2014 Australian horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent, and produced by Causeway Films. The film was shown at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. Every was raving about this film from the trailer this looks pretty frightening, although i will say dont let your kids watch this,seriously they will never go to sleep again this will give them night terrors.
The concept of the film is very disturbing in dark way with a psychological concept while the movie focus's on Babadook itself, a dark nightmare creature from children's tale but even The Babadook appearance its smartly done in a way to not fully show what it looks like. The débutant director, Jennifer Kent has successfully and smartly convinced also planted images of Babadook character at audience's mind without showing to much this is what i find very clever in frightening the audience's.
This reminds me of the old dark fairytale like the tooth-fairy & other creepy tale that keep you from sleep at night, i will say good job to the director in this one i will say this is not a bad film although i do feel its a little over rated as this film dose have it flaws.
The film cleverly embraces and deconstructs typical horror film conventions in order to create something new & truly dark & frightening to some audiences. Though it is hilariously playful and entertaining, this film also has this terrifying psychological thrill in the same vein as films like Black Swan, Rosemary's Baby or woman in black . Essie Davis is great as Amelia, but newcomer Noah Wiseman gives an incredibly memorable child acting performance as her son Samuel.
There are a few moments that this film gets a little disturbing special the scene with the mother as you start to see her de-meaner change from this quiet woman to a violent nasty woman, which reminds me of the (The Exorcist). For me i didn't really find this frightening in a way i just found it a little weird & odd at times although it was disturbing in place's but im not about to look under or in the cupboard to see if any thing is there lol, i bet some people will after watching this because some viewers might find this very psychologically frightening if it can do that then this film is a master piece because its done what a horror should do frighten the hell out of you.
This is pretty good horror film but not a high rating film as ive said this film is slightly flawed, but this is a film i can recommend to horror fans
Dislikes : Flew problems with this film one being the pace, the pace is a little to slow for the concept it dose start to get a little boring before things start to happen that almost not until half way through the film. The other thing as well is the ending its like it get a start that start off very slow pick up half way through then you get an end that you dont know weather to scratch you head at or say WTH, just one of the weirdest endings that didn't make sense it dosent explain iver other than the fact your seeing what you seeing.
Overall : Pretty dark & psychological, Some frightening moments & some disturbing scenes
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.3 out of 10 for concept.
Screen writer: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis , Daniel Henshall , Tim Purcell ,Tiffany Lyndall-Knight , Noah Wiseman , Benjamin Winspear , Cathy Adamek , Adam Morgan ,Craig Behenna , Michael Gilmour , Hayley McElhinney , Carmel Johnson , Barbara West , Michelle Nightingale , John Maurice
Running time: 93 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A woman uses a vibrator in her bed, but is interrupted by her child. This takes place under the covers so only the woman's head is visible throughout the sequence.
Violence & Gore: - A young boy makes homemade weapons including a dart gun and baseball launcher to use in defense against an imaginary monster. He brings some of these weapons to school.
- A young boy proclaims loudly that he is going to "Smash (the monster's) head in".
- A young boy pushes a young girl out of a tree house. She is not seen hitting the ground, but she is seen on the ground crying with visible blood around her nose. Her mother later states that her nose was broken in two places.
- A pop-up children's book is read to a young child, which includes thinly veiled violent threats. The child is severely disturbed.
- A pop-up children's book appears a second time, this time depicting a woman graphically snapping her dog's neck, strangling her child and slitting her own throat in addition to the previous material.
- A young boy yells at his mother "Do you want to die?".
- A woman is drinking soup when she bites down on a piece of glass. There is blood on the glass when she removes it from her mouth. When she ladles through her soup bowl, several other pieces of glass are found.
- A woman crashes her car into an oncoming vehicle while suffering a panic attack. Her young child is in the car with her. No one is injured, but she drives away from the scene.
- A monster-like figure drops onto a woman twice. We see the woman scream, but the impact is not seen.
- A woman dreams that she sees her young son dead. Blood is over his shirt and face.
- A woman threatens a young boy with a large kitchen knife.
- A woman snaps her pet dog's neck and it is killed. The dog is seen struggling and whining for several moments, but most takes place offscreen. The dog's body is seen being thrown on the ground, but nothing bloody or graphic is seen. A small boy later enters the room and sees the dead dog.
- A woman pulls a tooth from her mouth. She yanks at it for several seconds and crunching noises are heard. There is blood shown after it comes loose.
- A young boy shoots a woman in the arm with a dart gun, hits her in the head with a baseball and trips her with a tripwire as she is walking down a flight of stairs, causing her to hit her head on an overhang and stumble down the remainder of the stairs. No blood is seen.
- A young boy stabs a woman in the leg with a large kitchen knife. Minimal blood is seen.
- A woman strangles a young boy violently. Close-ups of his face are seen.
- In a hallucination/dream sequence, a man's head is split horizontally and the top half falls away from the bottom. This is not done in a realistic or particularly violent way. The man falls to the floor and his brain is seen inside his skull. Again, this is not particularly violent or realistic. It is silent and no blood is seen, the image is horrific but dreamlike.
- A woman vomits copious amounts of a black, blood-like substance.
- A young boy is seen dragged up the stairs and thrown against the wall twice by an unseen entity
Profanity: - Two uses of f word, directed at a small child
- Minimal profanity throughout. Several sparse incidences of the words 'crap' and 'bitch'.
- A woman yells at her child to "eat shit".
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: none
Frightening/Intense Scenes: - A boy suffers a seizure whilst yelling at an invisible monster. He thrashes and convulses onscreen for several seconds. He also suffers a similar attack in his home, yelling "Don't let it in!" loudly and repeatedly while seeming to suffer extreme shock.
- The pop-up children's book featured in the film is graphic and can be quite intense when it is being read or viewed.
- There are several intense scenes featuring a monster that is often shadowed and appears suddenly. The sound the monster makes is also incredibly scary. These scenes can be extremely frightening.
- The themes of this film are very intense. A very young boy is put in several frightening situations and some may find this quite confronting.
- Definite trigger warnings for anyone who had a violent or abusive relationship with parents, especially those who were threatened or assaulted by a parent.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Likes : The Babadook is a 2014 Australian horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent, and produced by Causeway Films. The film was shown at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. Every was raving about this film from the trailer this looks pretty frightening, although i will say dont let your kids watch this,seriously they will never go to sleep again this will give them night terrors.
The concept of the film is very disturbing in dark way with a psychological concept while the movie focus's on Babadook itself, a dark nightmare creature from children's tale but even The Babadook appearance its smartly done in a way to not fully show what it looks like. The débutant director, Jennifer Kent has successfully and smartly convinced also planted images of Babadook character at audience's mind without showing to much this is what i find very clever in frightening the audience's.
This reminds me of the old dark fairytale like the tooth-fairy & other creepy tale that keep you from sleep at night, i will say good job to the director in this one i will say this is not a bad film although i do feel its a little over rated as this film dose have it flaws.
The film cleverly embraces and deconstructs typical horror film conventions in order to create something new & truly dark & frightening to some audiences. Though it is hilariously playful and entertaining, this film also has this terrifying psychological thrill in the same vein as films like Black Swan, Rosemary's Baby or woman in black . Essie Davis is great as Amelia, but newcomer Noah Wiseman gives an incredibly memorable child acting performance as her son Samuel.
There are a few moments that this film gets a little disturbing special the scene with the mother as you start to see her de-meaner change from this quiet woman to a violent nasty woman, which reminds me of the (The Exorcist). For me i didn't really find this frightening in a way i just found it a little weird & odd at times although it was disturbing in place's but im not about to look under or in the cupboard to see if any thing is there lol, i bet some people will after watching this because some viewers might find this very psychologically frightening if it can do that then this film is a master piece because its done what a horror should do frighten the hell out of you.
This is pretty good horror film but not a high rating film as ive said this film is slightly flawed, but this is a film i can recommend to horror fans
Dislikes : Flew problems with this film one being the pace, the pace is a little to slow for the concept it dose start to get a little boring before things start to happen that almost not until half way through the film. The other thing as well is the ending its like it get a start that start off very slow pick up half way through then you get an end that you dont know weather to scratch you head at or say WTH, just one of the weirdest endings that didn't make sense it dosent explain iver other than the fact your seeing what you seeing.
Overall : Pretty dark & psychological, Some frightening moments & some disturbing scenes
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.3 out of 10 for concept.
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