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Original title: The babadook
Year: 2014
Running time: 94 min.
Country: Australia
Director: Jennifer Kent
Screenwriter: Jennifer Kent
Music: Jed Kurzel
Cinematography: Radosław Ładczuk
Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West, Ben Winspear, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Tim Purcell, Cathy Adamek, Carmel Johnson, Adam Morgan, Craig Behenna, Michael Gilmour, Michelle Nightingale, Stephen Sheehan
Producer: Entertainment One, Causeway Films, Smoking Gun Productions
Genre: Horror. Thriller | Supernatural. Monsters. Fairy Tales / Fables. Psychological Thriller. Maternity
Synopsis: “Do you want to die?!” seven-year-old Samuel asks his stressed-out single mother, Amelia. She wonders if his question is a threat or a warning. After dealing with Samuel’s frantic tantrums his entire life, Amelia suspects that her son has begun directing his violent misbehavior toward her. However, after a dark and foreboding children’s book called Mister Babadook mysteriously appears on Samuel’s bookshelf, Amelia must decide if her son is truly deranged, or if there really is a bogeyman lurking in their darkened halls at night.

Rankings Position

#86 Best Monster Movies & Monster Series
#99 Best Australian Movies of all time
#103 Supernatural Horror Ranking

Awards: 2014: New York Film Critics Circle: Best First Film

2014: Sitges Film Festival: Special Jury Prize & Best Actress (Davis)

2014: Critics Choice Awards: 2 Nominations including Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie

2014: Chicago Film Critics: Nominated for Most Promising Filmmaker

2014: San Francisco Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Actress (Essie Davis)

2014: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nominated for Best International Independent Film

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2014: AACTA Awards: Best film, Director & Original Screenplay. 6 Nominations

Critics' reviews

"Manages to deliver real, seat-grabbing jolts while also touching on more serious themes of loss, grief and other demons that can not be so easily vanquished."

Scott Foundas: Variety
"This psychological thriller from gifted first-time filmmaker Jennifer Kent will have you climbing the walls simply by plumbing the violence of the mind. Brace yourself. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"You will be scared. And also, perhaps even more scarily, moved"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Impressive first film (...) This is a different kind of nail-biter that has less to do with demonic possession than with the renegade power of an untamed imagination."

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"Let a law be passed, requiring all horror films to be made by female"

Anthony Lane: The New Yorker
"Actress-turned-debuting-feature-director Jennifer Kent has the narrative chutzpah to show her entire hand in the pop-up story and then make us squirm as foretold events come true. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out
"A really good debut feature (...) A small film that packs a horribly big punch."

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
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14 My Favorite Australian/New Zealand Movies (37)
33 My Top 10 Movies from 2014 (127)
46 My Favorite Horror Movies (284)

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