Sentences with phrase «babadook is a horror film»

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The film, while certainly reminding me of Baskin due to the fact that its home country isn't known for being a hotspot for horror, reminds me more of The Babadook.

Horror still reigns in Park City Extending a tradition that's already stretched from The Babadook and The Witch to Get Out, Sundance proved a dependable launching pad for standout horror: This year's Hereditary — a nightmarish supernatural grief drama starring an unhinged Toni Collette — was the one film that came closest to a consensus favorite (if by favorite, we mean a movie that thoroughly traumatized all audieHorror still reigns in Park City Extending a tradition that's already stretched from The Babadook and The Witch to Get Out, Sundance proved a dependable launching pad for standout horror: This year's Hereditary — a nightmarish supernatural grief drama starring an unhinged Toni Collette — was the one film that came closest to a consensus favorite (if by favorite, we mean a movie that thoroughly traumatized all audiehorror: This year's Hereditary — a nightmarish supernatural grief drama starring an unhinged Toni Collette — was the one film that came closest to a consensus favorite (if by favorite, we mean a movie that thoroughly traumatized all audiences).

It can't be entirely coincidental that last year's breakout horror film, The Babadook, was centered around the frustrating and intimate relationship of a mother and her child and this year's best horror film — it's true, I'm putting it in writing — is very similarly themed.

The first of three tremendous directorial debuts on this list, Jennifer Kent «s The Babadook is the best horror film of the year, and a solid emotional drama even beyond it's terrifying natures terrifying nature.

It's one of those films, like «The Babadook,» that will transcend horror fans and become one of the most talked - about films of 2016 in any genre.

The Babadook is one of the best horror films of the year and certainly the most original.

You might have noticed that indie horror is having a moment, with recent films like The Witch, It Follows, The Babadook and Goodnight Mommy pointing towards a growing trend in more serious, mood - driven storytelling which doesn't rely on cheap scares and lazy cliche to get its message across.

The best horror film of 2016 was, like The Babadook and The Witch before it, a director's bold debut — which bodes well for a genre always in need of fresh blood.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

It's some kind of feat the hype surrounding Jennifer Kent's much - acclaimed horror film has gotten to the point where it feels like watching the «scariest film in years» this far into 2015 is, yeah, a little like... Continue reading The Babadook

It's unclear at this point if Australian director Jennifer Kent wants to continue making horror films, but judging by her terrifying and moving debut feature, The Babadook, it's obvious that horror needs her.

Filmmaker Jennifer Kent was honored with the Breakthrough Artist award for her work on the horror film «The Babadook,» which also won four awards at Austin's Fantastic Fest earlier this year.

I haven't seen The Babadook either and I'm getting to the point where I'm getting tired of hearing how it's «the best horror film ever.»

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The Babadook is definitely one of my favorite horror films this year.

The Babadook had a great visual style and was a refreshing film in the psychological horror genre.

But what makes it a classic is that, like «Get Out,» a body - snatching movie about racism, or «The Babadook,» a supernatural horror film about childhood fears, it also works so well on so many other levels.

Oh, and three of my top 10 horror films were made this decade: The Babadook, It Follows and Get Out.

My list of didn't - see - yet shame includes: Eskil Vogt's Blind that everyone raved about, Brendan Gleeson's Calvary which Fox Searchlight picked up, German drama Wetlands, Jake Paltrow's sci - fi western Young Ones, Jim Mickle's Cold in July, bedtime horror The Babadook that some said is the best of the fest, Mark Duplass & Elisabeth Moss in The One I Love, Jenny Slate in Obvious Child, A.J. Edwards» Lincoln film The Better Angels, plus the highly praised closing night film They Came Together, not to mention the Audience Award winning doc Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory.

After catching my own, and many other peoples, favorite horror film of last year, The Babadook, at last year's BiFan, I'm looking to do the same again this time around and We Are Still Here might well be the one.

One of the eight films announced in the Park City at Midnight category of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is an Australian horror - thriller called The Babadook.

The Babadook is the best horror film slash psychological thriller I've seen in a long while.

The Babadook was not only one of the best films of 2014, but frankly, one of the best horror films released within the last decade.

IFC Midnight has debuted a new trailer for «The Hallow,» the supernatural horror film that Yahoo! Movies suggests could be this year's «The Babadook.»

The best horror film (indeed, one of the very best films, period) of 2014 is available today for home entertainment and you must see The Babadook.

This compares to fellow indie horror The Babadook «s # 348k from 147 screens (a slightly higher screen average), although the Australian film, which opened late October, arguably benefitted from the horror genre's traditional Halloween bump.

Australian actor turned director Jennifer Kent is the latest to attempt to take horror in a different direction with her feature debut The Babadook, a film that takes supernatural horror and shunts it off into a novel course.

Technically, The Babadook is clearly the product of someone who knows what a horror film needs to succeed, which gives the necessary support to allow the accomplished performances of its two leads and the deft thematic elements to shine.