Story Line
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
“If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of...”
Top Cast
Essie Davis
Amelia Vanek
Noah Wiseman
Samuel Vanek
Hayley McElhinney
Claire
Daniel Henshall
Robbie
Barbara West
Gracie Roach
Ben Winspear
Oskar Vanek
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
2014-05-22
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
DramaHorror
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User Reviews (4)
John Chard
10/10
•11/19/2014Ba Ba-Ba Dook! Dook! Dook!
The Babadook is written and directed by Jennifer Kent. It stars Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall and Hayley McElhinney. Music is by Jed Kurzel and cinematography by Radek Ladczuk.
Amelia is a single mother s...
Gimly
6/10
•12/18/2019The best pure-horror of the year. But that's not saying much.
Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go.
r96sk
7/10
•7/10/2020<em>'The Babadook'</em> is a well done horror film, one that is most definitely creepy.
I would've liked more from the monster and how it works, though the film does give you enough and certainly does a fine job at building up the atmosphere of un...
MovieGuys
7/10
•2/18/2024The Babadook is one of those elusive horror films, that's open to broad interpretation.
My personal feeling have watched the whole film in the context of the single mothers predicament, is the real monster is the spectre of domestic abuse. Abuse ...