- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- May 22, 2014 (10 years ago)
- Language
- English
- Origin
- Australia · Canada
- Genres
- Psychological horror · Monsters & Creatures
- Production companies
- Causeway Films · Entertainment One · Screen Australia · Smoking Gun Productions · South Australian Film Corporation
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rating
- TV-MA
The Babadook
Where to watch (United States)
Cast
Essie DavisAmelia Vanek
Noah WisemanSamuel Vanek
Hayley McElhinneyClaire
Daniel HenshallRobbie
Barbara WestGracie Roach
Ben WinspearOskar Vanek
Cathy AdamekPrue
Craig BehennaWarren
HachiBugsy
Tim PurcellThe Babadook
Chloe HurnRuby
Jacquy PhillipsBeverly
Bridget WaltersNorma
Adam MorganSergeant
Pippa WanganeenEastern Suburbs Mum 1
Peta ShannonEastern Suburbs Mum 2
Michelle NightingaleEastern Suburbs Mum 3
Tony MackPrincipal
Carmel JohnsonTeacher
Michael GilmourYoung Policeman 1
Craig McArdleYoung Policeman 2
Terence CrawfordDoctor
Tiffany Lyndall-KnightSupermarket Mum
Lucy HongSupermarket Little Girl
Sophie RiggsCheckout Chick
John MauriceCar Guy
Stephen SheehanMagician
Alicia ZorkovicFast Food Mum
Lotte CrawfordKissing Woman
Chris RobertsKissing Man
Annie BattenOld Woman in Corridor
India ZorkovicFast Food Kid 1
Isla ZorkovicFast Food Kid 2
Charlie CrabtreeFast Food Kid 3
Ethan GrabisFast Food Kid 4
Sophie AllanFast Food Kid 5
Crew
Producers
Reviews
Review: 'The Babadook' taps into fears of parenting Director Jennifer Kent captures the rigors of parenting in a truly scary horror movie.
In ‘The Babadook,’ the horror begins at home - The Boston Globe ‘The Babadook’ is an expert examination of a 6-year-old’s fears -- and his mother’s, too.
Review: ‘The Babadook’ Here’s one of the strongest feature film debuts in a long time, in any genre. Currently on demand and making its way into a few brave theaters, “The Baba...
‘The Babadook’: Film Review The oddest-sounding title at Sundance turns out to be a gruesome treat in 'The Babadook,' talented Australian director Jennifer Kent's child-in-peril Midnigh...
Sundance Review: Midnight Horror ‘The Babadook’ Adds Depth to Familiar Genre Trappings to Chilling Effect Sundance Review: Midnight Horror 'The Babadook' Adds Depth to Familiar Genre Trappings to Chilling Effect
Review: 'The Babadook,' smart and dark, delivers grown-up horrors "The Babadook" is a smart, darkly drawn modern-day horror movie of monsters, memories and mothers.
Keeping Secrets Anthony Lane on a new film about Alan Turing, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. It is “the opposite of enigmatic.”
‘The Babadook’: Movie review Australian actress-turned-filmmaker Jennifer Kent’s first directorial feature is one of the smartest and most effective horror films in years. Essie Davis ...
‘The Babadook’ turns nursery rhyme into nightmare I like to imagine watching this chilling Australian horror film with late, great authors Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey — all of whom would ...
Go Read a Book, Kid. It Couldn’t Hurt You. (Published 2014) “The Babadook,” the Australian director Jennifer Kent’s debut feature, is a horror movie full of interlocking ambiguities.
'The Babadook' review: Top-notch terror from Down Under as a creepy storybook character comes to life After a mysterious storybook appears in on a young boy's bookshelf, both he and his mother start to fear that it's creepy, clawed character has come to life....
The Babadook movie review & film summary (2014) The finest and most genuinely provocative horror movie to emerge in this still very-new century
Movie Review: “The Babadook” A mop-topped six year-old sees something in the back of his mother’s station wagon. His eyes go wild with terror and he lets out a blood-curdling scream...
'The Babadook' Movie Review First-time director Jennifer Kent delivers a tense scarefest about a mysterious children's book in 'The Babadook.'
The Babadook An Australian horror movie summons a terrifying monster out of parental fears.
'The Babadook' Review: Year's Best Horror Film Is a Powerful Exploration of Ambivalent Motherhood Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman play a mother and young son on the verge of destroying each other in writer-director Jennifer Kent's masterful debut
Film Review: ‘The Babadook’ Like the elaborate children’s pop-up book that conjures its eponymous bogeyman, “The Babadook” offers a wonderfully hand-crafted spin on a tale oft told.
Australian Horror Movie The Babadook Is In the Running For My Favorite Movie Of the Year An astonishing debut film.
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