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The Babadook

The little son of a single mother finds a book about THE BABADOOK, a monster that comes knocking and that will not disappear. He is scared of the monster at all times. The mother tries to fight his fears, but more and more she too feels an evil ...

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Samuel is seven years old and looks like a blonde, curly-haired angel. He loves building weapons and elaborate traps. The weapons and traps are there to shield him from the Babadook because, as it says in the pop-up book that arrived out of nowhere in the house he shares with his mother Amelia, “You can’t get rid of the Babadook.” The Badadook can never leave once you perceive it. It is a strange, crudely drawn black creature with a top-hat and long fingers, and has a bit of THE CABINET OF DR.CALIGARI and Freddy Krueger in him while being far scarier than most CGI monsters. Amelia believes him to be her son’s imaginary apparition at first, but then she begins hearing strange sounds and notices unsettling changes. There is a rumble for no discernible reason. Doors don’t open anymore. Broken glass lies on the floor. Amelia throws the disturbing book in the trash and it reappears the next day – with new, cruel sections. Australian director Jennifer Kent’s THE BABADOOK is a refined and downright scary psychological horror film in which the unease is felt on every level. Is the mounting threat that the single mother and her son feel really coming from a picture book? Does the danger lie in the innocent looking Samuel who threatens other kids in school and broods over Babadook defense plans? Or is it rather the mother, who at first appears so poised but lets the monster awaken some form of mental distress? The boundary between nightmare, trauma, and reality is dangerously porous in THE BABADOOK. It is not the first film to depict trauma with the aid of the horror film medium, but it is surely one of the best.

Hendrike Bake (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN)

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Original title: The Babadook
Australien 2013, 95 min
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director: Jennifer Kent
Author: Jennifer Kent
DOP: Radoslaw Ladczuk
Montage: Simon Njoo
Music: Jed Kurzel
Distributor: Capelight Pictures
Cast: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West
FSK: 16
Release: 07.05.2015

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