Samuel: It wasn't me, Mum! The Babadook did it.
The Babadook (2014)
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Directed by: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney, Noah Wiseman, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Tim Purcell
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Creepy and effective horror film which works really well as a metaphor for mental illness, or addiction, because (spoiler alert) the demon is not defeated or banished at the end, but can only be forever managed down in the basement by getting to know it and work with it.
Definitely up the more sophisticated end of horror films, and memorable for it.
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Trivia: Part of the inspiration for the film came from a friend of writer/director Jennifer Kent. Her friend, a single mother, had a young son who like many children was terrified of non-existent "monsters" he thought were lurking in his home. Kent then had the idea to turn this into a film. What if a child was terrified of monsters lurking in their closet, under their beds, etc... except they were real?
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