Steineded How sad is this?

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

simon-cataudo Simply dreadful.Obviously a very limited budget, so well done on that score, but so disappointing.The story is poor. You don't have to have all the effects if the story's good, and you can create terror just as much from something unseen as you can from the visual, but this is way off the mark. It goes from one stupid scenario to the next, with a dour palette inside a house that is seemingly from the mid-eighties. If this is set in that timeline, it's not made clear, although in the ensemble's clothing and the protagonist's car it would seem that way. Nobody has a mobile phone, but the telephones seem modern.The cast is far too limited when the main characters are this weak, and I didn't find myself rooting for either the flaky mother or the annoying child. Aside from those points, this is meant to be a horror film, and there wasn't a second of it that was enough to make the hairs on my arms stand up. The clichés are all there: dull, creepy house, unstable parent, the knowing child, a concerned neighbor, incredulous police and of course a cellar. The 'Babadook' (what a ridiculous name!) is less scary than some of the costumed revellers I see walking the streets with buckets of sweets in hand at Halloween. Not that you really see it.The ending is so awful. And not in a good way.If you're easily scared, or a child under the age of 12, you may love this. If I'd seen this at the cinema, I'd have asked for a refund.

dmk-07024 Psycho mom and psycho boy plus a bit of a supernatural. Nothing new but a fair horror movie. Strong in the last 25 minutes.

bgar-80932 A single mother has a tough time caring after a really troubled child who's like 6 or 7 by herself because the husband died the day he was born. That's surely enough to mess a little kid up and the kid was pretty screwed up in the first half. The mom some reason reads a really scary book to him which makes it harder and harder for both of them to sleep. Weird things happen and the pair think something is out to get them. I'm not sure if it is or if it's sleep deprivation and drugs along with that book that create a scary feeling for the pair. I'm not sure if I liked the ending which could have made it good for me but overall I just wasn't that entertained. The actors did a good job and I don't have complaints for them I was just a little bored and never scared.

theterminator-92378 The Babadook is a australian horror movie about a mother and her son who after the loss of their father/ husband are possesed by a spirit who is trying to kill them both. The cast of the babadook are Essie Davis,Noah Wiseman,Hayley McElhinney ,Daniel Henshall,Barbara West,Benjamin Winspear and Chloe Hurn the main cast had there moments of great acting but overall it wasen't very good. The story and visual effects were probably the best thing to come out of this movie because they were unique and strange but with the tone of the movie it makes sense that the story was strange and the efffects were stranger and the book and the babadook creatre were cool as well. Overall the babadook has some cool parts to it and parts enjoyed and i do think that in it's own way it was different and had some cool parts but the acting could have been better the story could have more action and the scares needed to be better and the ending could have been explianed a little better to the audience so i did not like it and i wouldn't watch it again and it needed to be better.