The Australian horror sensation is coming for us in November.
The Babadook has been creating a steady buzz online for much of 2014 thanks to a stream of terrific festival reviews, with many pegging it as the best horror film of the year (it’s currently got a 96 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, with 25 “fresh” reviews and just one in the “rotten” column). With the Australian-made film finally coming out Stateside in November, a U.S. trailer has arrived.
The film follows a woman named Amelia (Essie Davis), whose husband died six years earlier and who is having a hard time controlling the behavior of her six-year-old son Samuel (Noah Wiseman). The boy dreams of a monster that he believes is coming to kill him and his mother, and when a storybook called The Babadook shows up at their house, he thinks that the creature in the tale is that one that he’s seen in his dreams. As Noah becomes more violent and distraught, Amelia must medicate him -- but then she begins to glimpse a presence in their house that may indeed be the Babadook.
Words like “unnerving,” “disturbing,” “brilliantly made” and, perhaps most surprising these days for the horror genre, “emotionally rich” have been used to describe the movie, which is written and directed by Jennifer Kent. Watch the trailer below and see if you think those descriptions apply. The Babadook heads to theaters and VOD from IFC Midnight on November 28.
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