The BabadookвЂs uncomfortable familiarity extends to the realization of its titular boogeyman, which feels uncannily tactile despite its supernatural origins. You start to realize: Oh my God, the kid was right - and thatвЂ™s where the fear is for me. We donвЂ™t get to see characters like her that often.вЂќ I thought the film was going to get a lot of flak for AmeliaвЂ™s obvious shortcomings as a mother, but oddly, I think itвЂ™s given a lot of women a sense of reassurance to see a real human being up there. вЂњIвЂ™m not a parent,вЂќ Kent says, вЂњbut IвЂ™m surrounded by friends and family who are, and I see it from the outsideвЂ¦how parenting seems hard and never-ending. The boy, Samuel, is a petulant, disobedient brat pushing his already frazzled mother to the brink of madness. ItвЂ™s an open secret of parenting that children can drive you crazy, but few movies have visualized it so effectively. But when you throw them into a scary situation where theyвЂ™re feeling it, too, itвЂ™s much more easy for people to experience it.вЂќ If you make this kind of story in a purely dramatic realm, itвЂ™s easier for an audience to sit back and judge. вЂњAs the film progresses, you start to realize: Oh my God, the kid was right - and thatвЂ™s where the fear is for me. вЂњIt really was connecting to that woman and her journey towards staring something nightmarish in the face,вЂќ she explains. Kent says it was the character of the mom, and not a freestanding interest in things-that-go-bump-in-the-night genre filmmaking, that led to her framing The Babadook as a horror movie. ItвЂ™s one of the most terrifying psychological horror movies in ages, as well as an extraordinary exploration of what happens when repressed emotions such as grief and loneliness are suddenly given form - as well as claws and fangs. (The name, which Kent invented, is a riff on вЂњbabaroga,вЂќ the Serbian name for the boogeyman.) Soon, the already alienated kid starts to carry around makeshift weapons and claim that this Babadook is real when Amelia ends up burning the offending tome and it reappears intact inside her house, she begins to take her sonвЂ™s hysterical ravings seriously. Inside this pop-up is a shadowy figureВ called вЂњthe Babadook,вЂќ a small man with a top hat, a shark-like smile and a penchant for creepy, rhyming threats. An extension of her short, this creepy horror film focuses on a widowed single mother named Amelia (played by Essie Davis, KentвЂ™s fellow student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney) whose six-year-old son comes across a mysterious, macabre childrenвЂ™s book. Ideas, as the heroine of KentвЂ™s debut feature The Babadook discovers, are not so easily banished. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'

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