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Hoop-Tober, Film 28 of 31: Once an addict, always an addict. Or so the saying goes. The Babadook is not a horror film… not to me, at least. It’s a dark, brooding psychological drama that utilizes tropes of the horror genre to convey an underlying message. It’s a film about two things: grief and drug addiction. This is quite clear to me. “You can’t get rid of The Babadook.” Certainly, you can’t; you can’t get rid of your addictions, and you can’t get rid of the feeling of missing your deceased loved ones… you can only tame yourself to live without harmful, escapist tendencies. The ending of this film is in perfect concordance with this notion. Amelia is a woman…
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MMike Flanagan 8 月 22, 2026
Had the incredible pleasure of re-watching this with Jennifer Kent today at Fantastic Fest for a special live episode of my DIRECTOR’S COMMENTARY podcast. The theater was sold out. We talked for a few minutes about her journey to becoming a filmmaker, and then sat together with the audience to discuss the film in real time as it played. Hearing her thoughts, recollections, and insights about the film was absolutely amazing. She hadn’t seen it in almost ten years, and I think everyone in the theater got emotional in the film’s final moments. What a surreal and wonderful way to experience this seminal piece of work.
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im glad im not the only one who thinks of my depression as a gay man in a top hat that i feed worms to in my basement
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Both mother and child compete for who can be more annoying, it must be genetic
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my ideal man: -tall -dark -handsome -always smiling -wears a hat -it’s the babadook
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je pensais que ça allait être bien psq j’avais peur de ce film au collège mais enft ct guez
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i made my college friend watch this film since she’s never seen this movie and she dresses similar to the babadook (i also made her watch juno) and she enjoyed it haha but lowkey the more i watch this film the more i realise that the kid isn’t as annoying as i thought it would be, but he’s still annoying even though he’s cute
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Did I just see a Mf demon loose to a 6 years old boy?
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Shi was stressfull as f to watch, I had to blast Drake Iceman every once in a while, especially after she got possessed…
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Gruuuseligggg
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Me when I stuff my grief down into the basement and hallucinate a gay man in a top hat during psychosis
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Ta eu e o babadook debaixo da coberta criança dos inferno
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apasi anj kaya nonton potongan” bukti video horor yt
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Babadook’s a chainsmoker of 50 years
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Salut c’est mister bouzelouf !
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5 étoiles pour tout le lore qu’il représente
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The Babadook has not aged the way I hoped it would. As far as “tHe ReAl HoRroR iS gRiEf” films (my absolutely least favourite genre) go, this is one of the better ones, but I really did not feel the oomph I did when this released. It feels harsh to knock a film so much from the visuals, but for a film that was released in 2014 this looks absolutely dreadful and it sucks so much energy out of the…
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axirda siwdi
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good movie, kinda confusing tho 😭😭 😭😭 was the babadook like representation of the mothers mental illness?
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he’s so zesty
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maybe if they weren’t eating bland ass white food the babadook wouldn’t haunt tf outta them
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fua me he dormido pero sé que me gustó mucho cuanto tenía 13
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Lowk shi myself
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shit kid was weird and just a unscary plotline
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mi sono cagato addosso dall’inizio alla fine.
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heard it in my ceiling at one point wtf
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obra prima mas a criança é insuportável querendo ou não
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BABA DOOK DOOK
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A relatively creative depiction of grief and an entertaining enough watch.
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acaba cmg pensar q deve ter mães solos passando por isso sem apoio e respingando nos filhos. eu pensei q o rosto do babadook aparecia mais tb, cm o tanto de foto dele
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Ótima atuação, os lances de câmera que deixam a vibe sombria
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baba a dook behind you
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Just a chill guy
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No need for birth control when you could just watch this instead
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Das ist kein Wohlfühlfilm. Der tut weh, ist schmerzhaft anzusehen. Sam ist nervtötend und das Ende ist etwas mau. Deswegen nur 4/5, auch beim Rewatch
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bored
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It was a pretty average movie. For a 2014 film, though, I think it was well done, with a different and deeper concept than we could have even imagined back then. Depression, sadness, and unresolved grief can leave us frustrated, unhappy, and unable to enjoy or appreciate what we have right in front of us. The Babadook represents exactly that and shows that perhaps the best thing we can do is make peace with our demons so we can move…
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tiré par les cheveux
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por mim essa criança tinha morrido no acidente, que insuportável, o Babadook chega a ser uma esperança para acabar com esse menino logo
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Poor baby, really good film I really enjoyed it actually. The kid was definitely a handful but he was the least annoying character in the film, he’s just a little baby who loves his mummy
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no se si da más miedo criar a ese niño o que te aceche una entidad maligna, sea como sea, esta película maneja el tema de la depresión de forma inteligente
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Phenomenal performance by the mother. Very unsettling and uncomfortable; absolutely loved that the monster functioned as a metaphor for mental health
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So this is elevated horror? I liked it, and didn’t find the kid annoying for a horror movie.
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so fuckin good, some goofy ass shots and moments at time but mate this movie kicks ass at scaring the living fuck out of you
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whenever someone i love dearly tells me they havent seen this movie yet but want to watch it it’s the equivalent of doing 8 lines in a row for me
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Nightmare on Elm St. meets Home Alone
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therapy now
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é por isso que meu quarto é pequeno, para não dar espaço para monstros se esconderem 🌞
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The bababooey 🫀
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I understood “you can’t get rid of the Babadook”, but didn’t expect that to mean befriending him and keeping in the basement 💀. I was kind of hoping the movie would be more unsettling. Babadook, despite great introduction, wasn’t as scary as I thought he will be. We could sense his presence through some details but he barely appeared in a full form, which is disappointing, because I think the story would benefit from including more fear factors. However, I loved how this movie understood and portrayed woman’s feelings.
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very good but the ending was shit
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While not good, it wasn’t necessarily bad. The film was shot oddly, the audio was botchy a few times, and while the horror element was good, it was executed poorly. Would’ve done better if someone like James Wan directed it, and a character or two died. Pretty stupid ending as well. TW: SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT And, the dog dies. What the fuck, man? 💔
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when you got that babadook in you
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I have to give it two stars bc of how disturbing it is. I get that it’s a good horror concept though. Something about it is too real. Also I have beef with movies that kill dogs it literally adds nothing
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Lidiar con el dolor no es fácil, Y por eso amé esta película
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the kid really really PMO
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god i hate kids
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Hear me out
- Synopsis
- A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
- Director
- Jennifer Kent
- Writer
- Jennifer Kent
- Studio
- Screen Australia, Smoking Gun Productions, Causeway Films, South Australian Film Corporation
- Country
- Australia, Canada
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 94 mins
- USA17 Jan 2014
- Denmark06 Apr 2014
- USA06 Jun 2014
- New Zealand31 Jul 2014
- Germany27 Aug 2014
- Finland19 Sep 2014
- USA20 Sep 2014
- Spain08 Oct 2014
- USA10 Oct 2014
- Canada24 Oct 2014
- Italy24 Nov 2014
- Sweden22 May 2014
- USA28 Nov 2014
- Canada20 Feb 2015
- USA19 Sep 2024
- Australia22 May 2014
- Poland30 May 2014
- France30 Jul 2014
- Indonesia06 Aug 2014
- Thailand09 Oct 2014
- UK24 Oct 2014
- Brazil28 Nov 2014
- Spain16 Jan 2015
- Russia28 Jan 2015
- Greece12 Apr 2015
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