Director Jennifer Kent captures the rigors of parenting in a truly scary horror movie.

‘The Babadook’ is an expert examination of a 6-year-old’s fears -- and his mother’s, too.

The Babadook combines an ominous picture book with a mother pushed to the breaking point, showing how creepy children's literature can be.

Here’s one of the strongest feature film debuts in a long time, in any genre. Currently on demand and making its way into a few brave theaters, “The Baba...

Easily the best horror film of 2014. But bolstered by knockout performances, and a mind-bending narrative, The Babadook is so much more. It's one of the best...

The Babadook, the gripping new horror film from Australian director Jennifer Kent, is a movie filled with terrifying sequences and things jumping out from th...

The oddest-sounding title at Sundance turns out to be a gruesome treat in 'The Babadook,' talented Australian director Jennifer Kent's child-in-peril Midnigh...

Sundance Review: Midnight Horror 'The Babadook' Adds Depth to Familiar Genre Trappings to Chilling Effect

"The Babadook" is a smart, darkly drawn modern-day horror movie of monsters, memories and mothers.

Anthony Lane on a new film about Alan Turing, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. It is “the opposite of enigmatic.”

Australian actress-turned-filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s first directorial feature is one of the smartest and most effective horror films in years. Essie Davis ...

I like to imagine watching this chilling Australian horror film with late, great authors Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey — all of whom would ...

“The Babadook,” the Australian director Jennifer Kent’s debut feature, is a horror movie full of interlocking ambiguities.

After a mysterious storybook appears in on a young boy's bookshelf, both he and his mother start to fear that it's creepy, clawed character has come to life....

The finest and most genuinely provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century

  A mop-topped six year-old sees something in the back of his mother’s station wagon. His eyes go wild with terror and he lets out a blood-curdling scream...

First-time director Jennifer Kent delivers a tense scarefest about a mysterious children's book in 'The Babadook.'

If you want horror to be horrifying — scary, as opposed to simply tense or shocking — then it helps to shine a light into the those real-life dark corner...

This supernatural chiller is the most haunting movie of the year

The best horror film of 2014 understands that kids, especially very young ones, deal with loss much differently than adults do.

An Australian horror movie summons a terrifying monster out of parental fears.

Obliterating the line between terrifying fantasy and terrifying reality, Jennifer Kent’s first feature, The Babadook, is a creepy classic in the making

Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman play a mother and young son on the verge of destroying each other in writer-director Jennifer Kent's masterful debut

The litmus test of psychological horror is to give the viewer a chill with as little as an artful shot of darkly-draped clothes. What adult doesn’t have th...

Like the elaborate children’s pop-up book that conjures its eponymous bogeyman, “The Babadook” offers a wonderfully hand-crafted spin on a tale oft told.

An astonishing debut film.