Jennifer Kent created the Babadook for her horror movie of the same name; however, no movie is made in a vacuum. Kent drew inspiration from a classic horror movie while designing the Babadook’s ...

“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook,” goes the famous line in Jennifer Kent’s 2014 horror classic of that name. Ten years after its original release, though, The ...

Happy Pride Month everyone: the Ba-Ba-DOOOOOK is gay. At least, that's the theory being advanced by some of the reigning queer meme pundits of Tumblr. In the past few months, the indie horror monster ...

When Jennifer Kent was first developing a horror film centered on grief, she kept coming up against folks who didn’t see a future in it. Many objected to her project’s proposed title, which doubled as ...

In many ways, the horror genre is as popular and prevalent as it’s ever been. While the genre continues to expand and introduce countless new voices, though, its past decade has been dominated by the ...

June is the month of Pride and the LGBTQ community has a new queer icon to celebrate: The Babadook. You may know this Dada-esque mouthful as the title character of the 2014 horror film by Australian ...