Reviews

It's a good show if your IQ is below 90. Basically a lot of violence from the police side justified by a silly plot, where every twist is something you can see for a mile. The policeman is turned sympathetic even though he is basically a thug. Direction was average, script was nothing new, and good actors wasted on many scenes of beatings, assaults, and joyless sex - the creators want to be seen as edgy but they are not. Just a bunch of unimaginative dudes offering up some cut paste characters with some rural flavor thrown in. Pretty disappointing fare considering the recent decent quality indian stuff coming out on Prime.

The director follows up Krisha, his first film, with It Comes at Night, and while it's an entirely different plot - a disease has ravaged the world, and people are boarding up their houses against the epidemic - some elements were a signature, including the sense of dread he carefully builds through the movie.

This is an atmospheric, psychological thriller, where the terror is about the capacity of human nature towards violence, self-protection and inevitably pain. A hell of a good film.

This is a horror movie true, and it comes with a good amount of scary music and shrieks and starts, but the heart of the movie lies in what the little boy, Samuel, says in the beginning while showing his magic trick: 'nothing is as it seems'.

And from then on, the story follows Amelia, the mother (played wonderfully by Essie Davis, whose unsettling, haunted eyes carry entire scenes) as she descends into severe depression, seemingly plagued by the Babadook, a monster that enters the house.

You never see the monster clearly: what we see is its effects as it possesses Amelia, her shift from good to evil and back again, her hallucinations. It's a well-wrought film with a brilliant ending, one of the best renderings of depression I have ever seen - parts of the movie get pretty close to what it probably feels like, 'horror' or no.