The Babadook
2014 · TMDB 6.5
Directed by Jennifer Kent
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Why it matters
Jennifer Kent's Australian horror about a single mother and her son terrorised by a storybook monster, funded through a Pozible campaign that raised $30,000.
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Released
- 2014-05-22
- Studio
- Screen Australia
- Country
- Australia
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.5
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Backers and Believers
Position 4 of 7
Jennifer Kent's Australian horror about a single mother and her son terrorised by a storybook monster, funded through a Pozible campaign that raised $30,000.
From External Beast to Internal Trauma
Position 4 of 5
By the 2010s, horror turned fully inward. The monster in Jennifer Kent's film is not an alien or an atomic leviathan, but a pop-up book figure that physically manifests a mother's suppressed grief and depression. The battleground is no longer a spaceship or a city street, but the...
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