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The Babbadook

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Magical Realist Offline
This is an intense little indie horror film out of Australia I watched last night. The basic plot is a mother and her rambunctious son encounter a horrific entity that emerges from a bedtime story book. While the camera is sparing in its shots of this thing, the sense of its presence is all the more ubiquitous and psychologically-jarring in its manifestations. The whole tale plays both as a supernatural "possession" narrative AND an allegory of psychosis and mental illness. One keenly senses the sleepless desperation of the mother in trying to deal with her obsessive son on the anniversary of her husband's accidental death. One understands all too well the lurking monsters that come out of us when backed into a corner by the cold circumstances of fate. And the resolution of the conflict is not near as naive as most horror flicks. We never get rid of our Babbadook. We keep it locked in the basement and feed it bowls of earthworms. And life goes on.


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lapis lazuli Offline
I found this film utterly terrifying, wimp that I am. It actually gave me the wrong kind of goosebumps and subsequent night sweats. Horrible but effective emphasis on the evil within.




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