Even typing “shadowy corners” is giving me the creeps.

Oddly enough, the big laugh in our showing was also related to the son, but it was his tortured sobbing on his dad’s shoulder after the home seance that made them laugh.

Oddly enough, your comment is the first thing I’ve read that makes me now want to see mother!  

Cut to the shot of her on her knees and elbows, sobbing and screaming, and I wasn’t exaggerating when I say it almost knocked the wind out of me. I had to remind myself it was a movie; it was such an honest display of pure anguish.

Purchased. And and even bigger thank you, this time!

This is an excellent idea and much cheaper than the eventual remastered digital copy might run. I wasn’t able to find my disc this weekend and may have donated it in a great purge last year. I think the only 360 discs I kept around were my Mass Effect 1 & 2 and all my Rock Band games for when I feels like SINGING.…

Everything you need to know about Asian egg rolls: they are all delicious and should all be eaten with great enthusiasm. FIN!

Reading this makes it sound far more coherent than it really was. It almost sounded like someone with really poor reading skills was reading directly from a script with the weird pauses and uncommon pronunciation mistakes.

Politics and religion aside, Utah is the state I would most choose to live in, if I could. Even the great empty parts without mountains or gorgeous red deserts are beautiful on their own.

You aren’t the only one. Charlie may have been primed to mesh with Paimon after the ritual, but I didn’t get the indication she was anything other than, as you said, a weird traumatized little girl.

Several people in front of me, as well as my friend next to me, also threw their hands up in that scene. Their reaction startled me almost as much as the scene itself.

I agreed with you immediately upon leaving the theater. I like it and was affected by it, but I preferred The Witch.

I, like you, didn’t not like it. Toni Colette’s performance was visceral. The morning after the party, starting with what we hear before we see, was like a hard punch to my gut. All the performances were top notch, actually.

I’m standing in lobby waiting for my friend with the tickets right now. Eeee! I’ve stayed away from reviews since Friday to try to hold expectations where they were.

You have made the right call. It still chills me and I wish I hadn’t seen it.

Maybe an upload from my phone will work? Edit to add: it worked!

It took me a long while to watch The Babadook, but I’m so glad I finally did. It had exactly the kind of unsettled, upset feeling I expect from what I consider a good horror movie. Horror doesn’t need gore, and I kind of prefer when it has next to none, but it should leave me feeling a little sick and uncomfortable.…

I’m always happy to read your take, even if it’s not what I want to hear. :D

Oh, I’m sad and disappointed to read this. I did love The Witch and the dread it gave me pretty much from the opening scene, so I’m crossing my fingers my experience is a little different than yours.

The only “official” reviews I’ve read have been across the GMG here, but I’ve heard plenty of feedback from non-official sources, too, and they echoed the praise the film received here.