“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook,” goes the famous line in Jennifer Kent’s 2014 horror classic of that name. Ten years after its original ...

The Babadook is from 2014 and it’s set in the modern day. At multiple points in the film, the protagonist, Amelia Vanek, watches television. She sees a lot of silent films on TV. At one point ...

It was without the finished sound, but it was picture lock," Kent ... Noah Wiseman as tormented child Samuel Vanek in 'The Babadook.' People were also very critical of the title, The Babadook.

By Esther Zuckerman Before I even saw “The Babadook” I was scared of the Babadook. He quickly became such an icon of horror that the idea was immediately unsettling. Invented by the Australian ...

“You can’t call a film ‘The Babadook,’ ” she remembers being told. “That’s crazy. No one will ever remember it.” Speaking to The Times over Zoom from her native Australia ...

The Babadook is returning to theaters for its 10-year anniversary—but really, did Jennifer Kent’s searing tale of a mother grappling with grief so powerful it manifests a monster ever really ...

NEW YORK — “The Babadook,” when it was released 10 years ago, didn’t seem to portend a cultural sensation. It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent.

“You can’t call a film ‘The Babadook,’ ” she remembers being told. “That’s crazy. No one will ever remember it.” Speaking to The Times over Zoom from her native Australia ...

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It was a slow burn for writer/director Jennifer Kent's The Babadook to become well-known as a seminal piece of horror, as it was first unleashed at film festivals in 2014 and, through its ...