Babadook
Have you noticed that horror films never happen in bedsits. They always happen in big empty houses, with basements and attics. Babadook, an Australian production is set in a huge house. With a lot of 1950s and earlier furniture.
The story concerns a Mother, a widow. Who lives with Samuel, who is her very troubled six year old son. The mother works at a nursing home. While affording a very large house. It could be that the house belonged to her husbands family, or there was a settlement.
Samuel is very difficult, and not only difficult but strange. The boy watches magic videos, he wants to be a magician. Samuel fashions Heath robinson, weapons to defend himself against monsters that live under the bed, and in the cupboard.
We watch a family barely hanging on,, begin to slip. Samuel gets into trouble, at school for fashioning a dart gun. Actually the boy displays enormous skills with his hands. His dart gun, and backpack which throws cricket balls . Mum takes the boy out of school. They are stuck in the big house. No one is sleeping...
Then Samuel picks a book, The Babadook
This is very effective. Childrens books are scary enough. The Babadook looking a bit like stupid peter, a bit like freddy kruger, will come and get you. You will wish you were dead...
The poor boy is terrified.
Things go down hill, a flirtation between Mum and a carer, crashes and burns. The Boy spoils his cousins birthday party. Then almost has a fit. Mum begs for sedatives
Is the devil scarier then maddness.. is Infanticide not a greater horror then all the armies of hell. This is my problem with horror movies. A storm may kill our loved ones, or a drunk driver, or evil men. I have digressed
We see Mum under possesion turn on the boy, and let her frustration loose. She tells him, he is not loved. That she wishes he was dead. There is a good juxtapositon as the Mum becomes the tormentor, the crazy one, who drives her son, to distraction
My mind wanders again do the South Australian police really wear grey uniforms. Its Anglo Celtic Australia we see here. Mum had the sunburnt look, which I have not seen since I came to South America
There is a snippet of HG wells a trip to the moon.
Mum falls under the influence, and the boy battles her. The ending is strange, but not open.
My wife praised the boys acting
The story concerns a Mother, a widow. Who lives with Samuel, who is her very troubled six year old son. The mother works at a nursing home. While affording a very large house. It could be that the house belonged to her husbands family, or there was a settlement.
Samuel is very difficult, and not only difficult but strange. The boy watches magic videos, he wants to be a magician. Samuel fashions Heath robinson, weapons to defend himself against monsters that live under the bed, and in the cupboard.
We watch a family barely hanging on,, begin to slip. Samuel gets into trouble, at school for fashioning a dart gun. Actually the boy displays enormous skills with his hands. His dart gun, and backpack which throws cricket balls . Mum takes the boy out of school. They are stuck in the big house. No one is sleeping...
Then Samuel picks a book, The Babadook
This is very effective. Childrens books are scary enough. The Babadook looking a bit like stupid peter, a bit like freddy kruger, will come and get you. You will wish you were dead...
The poor boy is terrified.
Things go down hill, a flirtation between Mum and a carer, crashes and burns. The Boy spoils his cousins birthday party. Then almost has a fit. Mum begs for sedatives
Is the devil scarier then maddness.. is Infanticide not a greater horror then all the armies of hell. This is my problem with horror movies. A storm may kill our loved ones, or a drunk driver, or evil men. I have digressed
We see Mum under possesion turn on the boy, and let her frustration loose. She tells him, he is not loved. That she wishes he was dead. There is a good juxtapositon as the Mum becomes the tormentor, the crazy one, who drives her son, to distraction
My mind wanders again do the South Australian police really wear grey uniforms. Its Anglo Celtic Australia we see here. Mum had the sunburnt look, which I have not seen since I came to South America
There is a snippet of HG wells a trip to the moon.
Mum falls under the influence, and the boy battles her. The ending is strange, but not open.
My wife praised the boys acting
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