Babadook (Blu-ray)

 
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Babadook (Blu-ray) 

[ Vendetta / Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Wednesday 5 November 2014

Rated: M - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993M No Notes

The Babadook is a 2014 Australian horror film on Blu-ray, written and directed by Jennifer Kent.

Where there is imagination, there is darkness and from within that darkness lurks a being of unfathomable terror… close to home.

Amelia (AFI Award winner Essie Davis, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Slap) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook' turns up at her house she is forced to battle with her son's deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her…

A chilling tale of the unseen and otherworldly in the haunting tradition of The Conjuring and The Orphanage, Jennifer Kent's visceral journey into the heart of fear itself is as terrifying as it is believable.

Special Features:

Interviews - cast
Interviews - crew
Behind The Scenes
Theatrical trailer

"What starts off as a seemingly standard evil-child outing gradually transforms into something else entirely. By the end, the supremely grating and peculiar seven-year-old Samuel (newcomer Noah Wiseman, eerily reminiscent of The Shining's Danny Lloyd) is the most sympathetic thing in the film. The Babadook is a bogeyman-like figure pictured in a super-creepy handmade children's pop-up book that mysteriously appears and cannot be disposed of no matter how hard Samuel's mother tries... The Babadook features a number of genuinely unsettling scenes, (embarrassing disclosure: I checked the closets and under the bed before I tried to sleep that night), but it also packs an emotional punch. That's mostly due to Davis' truly shape-shifting performance... 'Baba dook dook dook!' should take its place in the annals of horror history alongside 'Candyman' and 'Bloody Mary' as words too terrifying to repeat but too tempting not to." - Laura Kern, Film Comment

"You may not believe in bogeymen, but you better believe The Babadook is the best Australian film in years." - Simon Miraudo, Quickflix

M Horror, violence, offensive language & sexual references.