If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of The Babadook.
Writer/Director Jennifer Kent’s feature debut shook audiences and helped usher in a new era of horror, and it’s turning ten this year. To celebrate, IFC Films, in partnership with Iconic Events Releasing, is bringing the modern horror classic back to theaters nationwide starting on September 19, featuring an exclusive filmed Q&A with Jennifer Kent.
Tickets go on sale on August 14.
The writer/director will also be touring with the film for select to-be-announced special screenings and in-person discussions in September to commemorate the special anniversary.
In The Babadook, “Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6-year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel’s dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called ‘The Babadook’ turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he’s been dreaming about. His hallucinations spiral out of control, he becomes more unpredictable and violent. Amelia, genuinely frightened by her son’s behaviour, is forced to medicate him. But when Amelia begins to see glimpses of a sinister presence all around her, it slowly dawns on her that the thing Samuel has been warning her about may be real.”
Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, and Ben Winspear star in The Babadook.
The psychological horror movie made Bloody Disgusting’s Best Horror Films of the 2010s list, with William Bibbiani writing, “Essie Davis gives one of the great horror performances of the decade in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, an exceptionally eerie supernatural story about a single mother whose deteriorating mental health fuels a macabre demon from a storybook. Kent’s oppressive environments seemingly trap her protagonist in a domestic hell, in which the only person she loves is also her greatest enemy.”
The special event comes with a new trailer, below, and a fantastic commemorative poster designed by MUTANT and artist Sara Deck.
The film’s re-release confirms it: you can’t get rid of The Babadook, indeed.
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