All in all, it is a full feature length movie, that is actually based on a 2005 Short Movie called "Monster" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466566/?ref_=tt_rec_tt) The Short Movie had good Effort- but the Movie "Babadook" has not.
Sorry to say, but the mother character really would need help up from the Start. Essie Davis looked to me like the Jack Nickolsen Charakter in Shining- already Loony from the Beginning. And every Move felt like she would be on Drugs. I just waited for saliva to drip out of her mouth corner. The Kid character played by Noah Wiseman is so annoying, I want him to get hurt or "smash his head to the wall" like even his Movie Mom want's to do in her later "Possession". Spoiler Alert; Mom is totally off the line- even poor Doggie does not get out alive. She opened the "Badadook Book" and Evil is taking her Soul. Clever Kid is using combat skills to prevent getting killed. At the end- See "Conjuring" and many other Movies- burp up some Slime- and lock the evil Spirit in the Basement; (A scene just like in the Short Movie) If you get a Chance- watch the 2005 Version and avoid the long term- please get it over with- Movie. I'm a big Horror and Mystery Fan- but sorry- "The Badadook" did not creep up on me.
Sorry to say, but the mother character really would need help up from the Start. Essie Davis looked to me like the Jack Nickolsen Charakter in Shining- already Loony from the Beginning. And every Move felt like she would be on Drugs. I just waited for saliva to drip out of her mouth corner. The Kid character played by Noah Wiseman is so annoying, I want him to get hurt or "smash his head to the wall" like even his Movie Mom want's to do in her later "Possession". Spoiler Alert; Mom is totally off the line- even poor Doggie does not get out alive. She opened the "Badadook Book" and Evil is taking her Soul. Clever Kid is using combat skills to prevent getting killed. At the end- See "Conjuring" and many other Movies- burp up some Slime- and lock the evil Spirit in the Basement; (A scene just like in the Short Movie) If you get a Chance- watch the 2005 Version and avoid the long term- please get it over with- Movie. I'm a big Horror and Mystery Fan- but sorry- "The Badadook" did not creep up on me.