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Overview
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
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- 🎭Drama👻Horror🕵️Mystery
Release
2014-05-22
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English
Runtime
1 hour 34 minutes
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Roger Ebert
The finest and most genuinely provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century.
rogerebert.com/reviews/the-babadook-2014
The Hollywood Reporter
'The Babadook' is a distinctive domestic horror story in which the unresolved traumas of a conflicted mother and son are physicalized as a malevolent entity.
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/babadook-sundance-review-673048/
IGN
The Babadook is a macabre masterpiece of modern psychological horror. Let him in!
ign.com/articles/2014/09/24/the-babadook-review
Den of Geek
The Babadook is unmistakably a great horror movie, as well as an assured and often astounding feature directorial debut from Jennifer Kent.
denofgeek.com/movies/the-babadook-review/
Screen Rant
The Babadook is a passionate and uncompromising look at mental illness in the face of unexplainable forces.
screenrant.com/babadook-movie-reviews/
Rotten Tomatoes
Frighening and bleak yet also spellbinding and profound, “The Babadook” deserves to be immortalised in the canon of horror cinema.
rottentomatoes.com/m/the_babadook/reviews
IMDb
"A woman haunted by her husband's death and the Babadook... A rare gem that plays on all those fairytale fears you may have had as a kid."
imdb.com/title/tt2321549/reviews/
