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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A decade after working behind the scenes on The Babadook, Australian siblings Danny and Michael Philippou are set to release their new horror movie, Bring Her Back, in theaters on May 30, 2025. With ...

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 ...

The Babadook director Jennifer Kent has lined up her next movie: an adaptation of a "very well-known horror book". While the Aussie filmmaker has yet to reveal the source material ("I can't really say ...

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 ...