Movie

The Babadook

2014 · 94 min

A slow, suffocating plunge into grief and paranoia, where a mother's exhaustion curdles into something monstrous and inescapable.

Tagline: If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of...
Overview: A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
How it feels: Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, parenthood, madness, isolation
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
parenthood
madness
isolation
trauma
Places: home
suburbs
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex none