The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent in her feature directorial debut, based on her 2005 short film Monster.

The Babadook: Directed by Jennifer Kent. With Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall. A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

Oct 30, 2024 · The Babadook's touches on darker aspects of motherhood, loss, grief, and how mental illness can create monsters all on its own. However, the movie ends on a confusing but conclusive note for its titular terror and the family he torments.

Amelia, a widowed mother, and her young son Samuel's lives are disrupted by the appearance of a sinister children's book, "Mister Babadook." As they delve into the book's eerie pages, a supernatural entity begins to haunt their home, mirroring the family's internal struggles.

Nov 28, 2014 · The hiding-in-the-dark entity called The Babadook is the most slippery kind of menace in contemporary horror: a metaphor for both the terrors of childhood and the terrors of parenting—particularly single parenting under a very vexed circumstance—that’s also, within the created world of the film, a very real thing.

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A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her agitated son’s fear of a monster from a book named the The Babadook, that he believes is lurking in the house. She soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Six years after the sudden death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her “out-of-control” six-year-old Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love and whose dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both.

Sep 1, 2020 · The Babadook opens with an apparent nightmare that the mother, Amelia (Essie Davis), has concerning a car accident in which her husband was killed. Her six-year-old son Sam (Noah Wiseman) also has nightmares about a monster called the “Babadook,” which Amelia repeatedly attempts to convince him does not exist. Sam persists in his belief ...