Before there was ‘The Babadook,’ there was ‘Monster’ the ‘baby Babadook’ — dangerousminds.net

There’s a reason why the critics and all your friends who’ve seen it are raving about the new horror movie, The Babadook: It’s because it’s really well-done and fucking scary. For the most part, I find horror films extremely uninteresting, but this one, about a young boy with a pop-up book from Hell, grabbed me immediately with its stylish sense of anxiety, claustrophobia and unease. It’s genuinely frightening and it doesn’t rely on the cliched tropes of “found video” that’s been getting old since The Blair Witch Project or sudden loud noises for its scares.

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