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Originally Posted by Buboven  To put it simply The Babadook is an excellent cinematic metaphor for Mental illness. It also does that, actually very rare thing for horror films these days, its actually genuinely very scary; I hadn't been so terrified by a film since The Descent. I give it a 10/10 myself.
The ending as I read it, is that the mother has finally managed to overcome her mental health problems by managing it, hence why the monster stays downstairs. |
My understanding of the end scenario is that The Babadook is a monster which is dormant, and one day will go away, but is under control at the moment, so the metaphor for stress/anxiety/depression works extremely well.
Like you, I don't think I'd been as scared in cinemas since Neil Marshall made me wish the lights would come on!