Following its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Australian writer/director Jennifer Kent's debut feature, horror pic The Babadook, was met with widespread critical acclaim. Following a turn ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook IFC Films details, “In honor of the 10th anniversary of the iconic indie horror film The Babadook, ...

The Babadook was not a simple under-the-bed monster film, but at the time of its release, many fans and viewers categorized the entity as not scary and just another shadowy, top-hatted ghost in the ...

The Babadook is a lot of things, but a decade out, it’s too often, perhaps regressively, conceptualized as that movie where depression, not a children’s book character, is the real monster. An entire ...

Six-year-old Samuel’s disruptive, dangerous behavior convinces his school that he’s a child out of control. The school’s administration wants to separate the boy from the other children. His ...

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. Both Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” and Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man,” two of the ...