10 Terrifying Horror Films That Exploit Your Everyday Fears
10. Fear Of Losing Someone You Love - The Badadook (2014)
One thing that everyone can agree on was that The Babadook was scary and not simply because of those brilliantly dark stop-motion animation sequences, the astonishingly raw performances from the two leads, nor because your friend called you at 3am after you saw it and did a worryingly accurate rendition of Mister B's voice. What lay at the heart of this film was something we all fear: losing a loved one and, further, what life becomes without them. In The Babadook, we meet Amelia (Essie Davis), a young, harried widow raising a difficult six-year-old boy, and can only watch in horror as she is swallowed up by anguish at her husbands death, slowly becoming the monster she fears. Her grief becomes so huge, so all-encompassing that it takes on a life of its own and becomes the titular monster. Its only by finally facing down her own fears of living without her husband, of being an inadequate mother that she is able to tame the beast And have it live relatively peacefully in her basement, naturally. After all, you cant get rid of The Babadook.
