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By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 18 May 2014

Jennifer Kent's clever, thoroughly satisfying and neatly unsettling debut feature is about a kind of haunting, but of who or what…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 18 May 2014

I'm no fan of horror movies but this one delivers a convincingly powerful study in domestic havoc…

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By Tom Clift (226) for Concrete Playground (635) on 18 May 2014

Featuring both a gripping lead performance by Essie Davis and one of the most creepifying monsters to ever stalk your dreams, The Babadook…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 17 May 2014

So much more interesting and idiosyncratic than most horror films (whether from Japan or Australia or America), The Babadook is original and…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 17 May 2014

Creepy from the outset, Jennifer Kent's debut horror thriller has plenty going for it, from the unsettling mood created to a standout performance…

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By Matthew Pejkovic (770) for Matt's Movie Reviews (913) on 05 May 2014

Essie Davis delivers the best performance of her career (thus far), an emotionally draining, physically demanding portrayal of a mothers love…

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By Tim Martain (275) for The Mercury (275) on 04 May 2014

Davis gives possibly the performance of her career in The Babadook, portraying this emotionally destroyed woman with an authenticity and honesty…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 01 May 2014

The film works as great horror fiction thanks entirely to the believability afforded the protagonist's psychological state…

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By Adam Mccabe (2) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 01 Apr 2014

The tension is real, the scares are genuine and the end product is a classic horror masterpiece that deserves a place among the greats…

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By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

Its horrors go beyond any single raggedy phantom, reaching back to the primordial fear of death and loss: of a child, of a loved one, of one's…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Feb 2014

This meticulously designed and directed debut feature from writer-director Jennifer Kent (expanded from her award-winning short, “Monster”)…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 04 Feb 2014

The Babadook is the best genre creature creation since the big black wolf-dog aliens from Attack the Block…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2014

The Babadook is a smart, respectful horror that puts character and emotional issues first, yet never at the cost of a delightful and haunting fright…

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By William Goss (413) for Film.com (1,892) on 28 Jan 2014

An impressively chilling exercise in old-school restraint…

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By Steve Greene (48) for Indiewire (3,631) on 26 Jan 2014

The Babadook isn't a transcendent horror film…

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By Erik Childress (902) for Film Threat (5,156) on 25 Jan 2014

Throw in a few fresh images, great performances and enough creepy audio to have you fearing those dark corners again, and you have one entertaining…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 24 Jan 2014

On purely formal grounds (the ones on which the genre lives or dies), Kent is a natural…

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By Emily Estep (6) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 22 Jan 2014

With its whimsically ghoulish creation and frightfully real lead performances, The Babadook feels just like that actual nightmare you once had…

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