The Babadook
If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of the Babadook.
Production
Budget
$2 000 000
Box office
$10 494 795
Website
Director
Actors
Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Ben Winspear, Cathy Adamek, Craig Behenna, Hachi, Tim Purcell
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Kristina Ceyton, Kristian Moliere
Camera operator
Radek Ładczuk
Composer
Jed Kurzel
Artist
Alex Holmes
Audition
Nikki Barrett
Editing
Simon Njoo
Whole Team (72)
Whole Team (72)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The rights to the film are owned by director Jennifer Kent. She firmly promised that she will not sell the rights to film a sequel for any amount of money.
- The director of the classic horror film "The Exorcist" (1973), William Friedkin, wrote on Twitter on November 30, 2014: "I have never seen a more terrifying film than "The Babadook."
- $30,071 was raised for filming through crowdfunding.
- Director and screenwriter Jennifer Kent states that the film is based on photographs miraculously preserved from Tod Browning's lost film "London After Midnight".
- Jennifer Kent and Essie Davis, who played Amelia, studied together at drama school.
- Amelia reads Sam a pop-up book, "Mr. Babadook," by feminist writer Alexandra Yuhasz.
- Some scenes use a sound effect from the computer game UFO: Enemy Unknown, produced by Mythos Games and MicroProse.
- In several scenes with the Babadook, you can hear a sound effect from the computer strategy game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995) by Blizzard Entertainment.
- In one scene, a classic Italian horror film, "Black Sabbath, or The Three Faces of Fear," is shown on television. The scene that follows has a noticeable resemblance to a scene from Mario Bava's film.
- During the final battle, sound effects from the computer game Resident Evil, developed for PlayStation in 1996, can be heard.
- The scream heard several times at the end of the film is borrowed from Motaro, a character from the Mortal Kombat universe.
- Amelia is reading a pop-up book, "Mr. Babadook," by feminist writer Alexandra Yuhasz to Sam.
- In one scene, a classic Italian horror film, "Black Sabbath," is shown on television. The following scene bears a striking resemblance to a scene from Mario Bava's film.
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