[THE
BABADOOK screens Friday March 27th at 7:30 pm and Saturday March 28th at 9:20 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review
by Bob Ignizio
No
parent wants to admit it, but deep down inside, at some point in
time, they've all thought about what it would be like if their child
were gone. And maybe, just for a moment, that didn't seem so bad.
With few exceptions, such thoughts are banished from the mind almost
as soon as they pop in there. Yeah, it sucks that little Billy
smeared poop on his bedroom wall or little Suzy threw the tantrum
from Hell in the middle of Target, but you get over it, because most
of the time you can't imagine how awful life would be without the
little monsters. But in that moment, however brief, those thoughts
can be very real and very terrifying. And it is that kind of fear
that writer/director Jennifer Kent's THE BABADOOK
taps into.
