The Babadook review: Impressive Aussie horror
A CREEPY children's book unleashes a monster but is a frazzled single mother the real nightmare?
Director: Jennifer Kent
Stars: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall
Cert 15, 94mins
The Babadook is an impressively made, well acted Australian horror film that never quite delivers on the sense of dread it spends a great deal of time building up.
THE BABADOOK - Official UK Online Trailer
Essie Davis is superb as a frazzled, lonely single mother, Amelia, to a unruly six-year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman) whose husband died driving her to the hospital when in labour.
A creepy children’s book - The Babadook - unleashes a monster in the house but could the real bogeyman be Amelia herself?