I have a very distinct memory of being a kid, and having a group of older family members describe how utterly terrifying Kubrick's Shining was for them.

They don't know shit.

Sure, okay. Have fun with that.

My friend, if you think that review supports the idea that the Babadook is a literal, real-world monster, then you're mistaken twice and/or a very subtle troll. It says:

Ah! Well, I guess I meant "taking her meds" to mean she got help for her mental illness, but I stand corrected.

Nope, they put the worms in the basement dirt together, and the kid appreciates that it's part of her therapy in moving past the Babadook.

No one else can see the Babadook. The mother made the book herself. She VOMITS the creature out of her mouth.

I'm not saying that. There are a million ways It Follows could have gone and been a good horror movie. But the very first rule is that you have to obey the rules you set, otherwise things get dumb quick, like they did in this movie.

No, you were right, but you put spaces after punctuation.

Because I have concrete reasons why I don't like it I'm sensitive?

I feel like you're just trolling me.

If the monster had stayed real I would have loved it. When I realized they were bullshitting me with the monster it went off the rails.

No, it's just one thing, a metaphor for her mental illness. It does not exist outside of her mind.

Bottom line, what it boils down to is that people are starved for decent, intelligent horror, and so they're willing to get excited about these pretty-okay movies.

I thought it was about how millennials can't figure out basic solutions to fairly easy problems.

Yes. The monster is in her head. She made the book herself. Did you see the film?

The apparitions in the Shining aren't real, but they aren't the monster—Nicholson is. And if the movie had ended with people saying, "Oh, poor Jack, he's suffering from extreme bipolarity that made him do all these bad things," it would largely ruin the movie, because then it would be about his mental illness that…

It's not. Alien is.

Right, but the movie has to be smart enough to gloss past the problems in a way that doesn't draw attention to them. Not once during Nightmare on Elm Street did I ever stop to question the logic because (1) it was well-designed, and (2) it was too engaging.

Well, and you can insult me personally, but the difference between this and other horror movies is that the logic flaws draw attention to themselves. It's not internally coherent.