There is this horror movie on Netflix called "Babadook". It's been up for a while, but you might have passed over it because you didn't know anything about it. I was one of those people that hasn't heard anything, but I eventually watched it and it's not bad at all. The movie is about a widow who raises her young son and he appears to seem like a problem child. He cuts up in school and won't stop screaming and arguing. It has to do with the discovery of this book about Babadook, but no one knows that at first. The movie shifts from problem child to problem mother as she slowly descends into madness and tries to harm her son. At first, the movie appears as if the mother has some type of postpartum depression because she can't deal with her son or she's grieving over the loss of her husband and doesn't know how to cope with life. You don't see Babadook at first, but you see his influence.
Babadook goes from causing the son to act out to taking over the mother's willpower. The mother doesn't believe or realize it until it's almost too late. She ends up finding a way to fight back, goes on to live a semi-normal life with her son and something else (but I don't want to give away the ending). The horror is not full of gore or blood. It's mostly an annoying horror and that's not a bad thing. It's like if you were locked in a room with no windows or anything else and all you could hear was the most annoying song you've ever heard in life. Well that would be bad for you, but in this movie, it works. The actors are great because you believe it. You think, "Why is this child acting out?" and "Why can't this mother deal with it?" By the time you get to the end, you think I'm glad things worked out for them (kind of). I rate this film a 7/10.
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