The Babadook
This Is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts
July 19 - 31, 2019
Jennifer Kent’s visually stunning horror debut—in which a young widow and her disturbed 7-year-old son are haunted by the sudden presence of a sinister children’s book—reminds us that the things that go bump in the night may be buried deep inside our psyches, not just in the basement.
Young widow Amelia lives with her 7-year-old son, Samuel, who seems to get odder by the day. His father’s death in an accident when driving Amelia to the hospital to give birth to him may have something to do with the boy’s unnerving behavior, which scares other children and perhaps even his own mother. But when a sinister children’s book called Mister Babadook mysteriously appears—and keeps reappearing—Amelia begins to wonder if there’s a presence in the house more disturbed than her son. Jennifer Kent’s visually stunning debut genuinely frightens us with the revelation that the things that go bump in the night may be buried deep inside our psyches, not just in the basement. A 2014 New Directors/New Films selection.
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