This horror movie about the monster in the closet is a real Baba-dupe.
is just proof positive of the chronic hunger for horror movies, period. Sometimes it feels like any one will do, thoughThe Babadook. This movie is swimming in visual cliches like a rattled child walking through a dimly lit, presence-touched house and closet doors that are ajar.
Her quest leads her to the dead guy’s widow, Rita , who is dirt-smeared and difficult but not quite hostile, much like Anne Heche’s character in. Thatcher, incidentally, rocks a hairstyle similar to that which Billie Eilish has had, and her features are similar enough that after a while my brain just accepted her as Eilish. The movie was moderately more interesting as a result.features your usual array of jump scares and unsettling, PG-13-friendly imagery that’s just at the cusp of gore.
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