The Babadook
If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of the Babadook.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall & Noah Wiseman | |
Directed by | Jennifer Kent | |
Screenwriting by | Jennifer Kent | |
Director of Photography: | Radek Ladczuk |
Entertainment Reviews:
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [E]motionally engaged, consistently gripping, beautifully constructed and paced, and really hella scary...
RogerEbert.com
Rating: 4.5/5 --
The Babadook is impressive for its focused script, acting as a giant metaphor about either letting our demons take over of our lives or learning to keep them at bay, no matter how scary it may seem.
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FF2 Media
[T]he movie has an emotional intensity uncommon to its genre, thanks mostly to its principal performance....Davis offers an alarming portrait of maternal affection pushed to its furthest limits. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Rating: 4/5 --
The Babadook is our worst fear and it clings to us in hopes to suck us dry of happiness and joy and love - the Babadook wants us to turn into everything that is wrong and evil in the world.
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Nightmarish Conjurings
This is the scariest movie of the year....Essie Davis is a blood-sweat-and-tears tour de force as Amelia...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/5 --
The style of the film is not teasing exactly -- it's too sad and lonely -- but there is certainly a hair-pulling mixture of glum laughter and vast apprehension. Is the demon real? Does it matter?
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Financial Times
Is to parenting what The Shining is to alcoholism.
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F This Movie!
Product Description:
Amelia (Essie Davis), the heroine of Jennifer Kent's horror movie THE BABADOOK, is an Australian single mother haunted by memories of her late husband's tragic death. He was in the midst of taking his very pregnant wife to the delivery room when the couple had a devastating car wreck. Mother and baby were saved; dad perished. That was six years ago. Now, as the story opens, Amelia is raising her young son Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a sweet-natured but very precocious and troubled little boy. On a nightly basis, Samuel grows convinced that monsters lurk beneath his bed, and he has even constructed homemade weapons, such as a miniature wooden catapult and crossbow, to fend off the invading enemies. His eccentric behavior alienates his schoolteachers, who insist on removing him from a group setting in the classroom in favor of a special-needs situation with a one-on-one tutor. Meanwhile, Samuel's conduct stresses Amelia to the breaking point. The situation at home grows much more bizarre when Samuel asks his mom to read to him, and produces a strange children's storybook from his bedroom shelf. Entitled "The Babadook," it's an eerie pop-up book with charcoal illustrations of a demonic figure that announces itself by knocking at the door of a house six times ("Ba-ba-ba-DOOK-DOOK-DOOK"), and then devours all who reside within. Neither Amelia nor Samuel have ever seen this volume before, nor do they know how it turned up in their home. Stranger still, it lacks an author and publishing information. The book instantly has Samuel in tears, and Amelia plans to dispose of it, but that same night, six knocks sound on the door and rattle the house...
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