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		Title: THE BABADOOK 
		Director: Jennifer Kent 
		Year: 2014 
		Reviewed: June 25, 2015
  
		
		
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	"The Babadook" is the rarest of horror films; it's smart.  With a brilliantly written screenplay that is directed with both confidence and control, and acting that scratches the upper echelons of, dare I say it, Oscar-worthy , "the Babadook" works on a myriad of levels while maintaining a ubiquitous sense of dread.  (My girlfriend was "genuinely creeped out" by a number of scenes.)   
 
In short, it doesn't get much better than "The Babadook".  That's why it gets a FOUR COURSE MEAL review.	
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