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Date : Wed May 01 2024 13:15:05

Netflix movie of the day: The Babadook is a seriously scary horror  that will 
get inside your head

Date:
Wed, 01 May 2024 12:05:02 +0000

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Before you watch it on Netflix, be warned: The Babadook is a horror film that 
isn't afraid to deal with real emotions.

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 The Babadook is one of the most original and iconic horror movies in recent 
years, attracting rave reviews and ending up everywhere from Pride parades to 
proudly displayed tattoos  and most recently, Netflix . At heart, it's a 
simple story about a single mom whose kid tells her he can see monsters, but 
it's about much more than that and that's why it'll haunt you long after the 
end credits roll. Watch The Babadook on Netflix Why The Babadook isn't your 
average horror movie 

The story is simple enough. Amelia, who is widowed, is struggling to cope 
with the demands of being a single mom to her six-year-old son Sam. And then 
Sam starts having horrific fantasies about a character in a book, Mr Babadook 
and Amelia becomes convinced that the Babadook is real, and a real danger to 
her and her son. 

 Empire gave it the full five stars, calling it "one of the strongest, most 
effective horror films of recent years". "It's genuinely scary in its jump 
moments, but also imparts a lingering sense of dread that will stay with you 
for days," it wrote. One of the reasons it's so effective is because it's as 
much a portrait of grief as it is a horror movie. As Empire says, "the 
backstory... is poignant and the portrait of mother and son locked in a 
single, escalating fantasy is gripping and horribly credible". 

 SF Weekly said: "There are legitimate terrors here -- legitimate because, as 
any bleary-eyed parent will verify, they come from a real and terrible 
place." And The Mary Sue wrote that "I can't think of a movie since 
Rosemary's Baby which acknowledges the unspoken fears of motherhood with such 
humor, horror, and compassion". 

And the Pride parades? As The New Yorker explains, The Babadook is "a 
frightening, fabulous new gay icon" that may have become such because Netflix 
accidentally listed the film in its LGBTQ+ section. But queer Tumblr rolled 
with it and had a lot of fun with its new icon. As writer Eren Orbey puts it, 
"the gay community, witness to so many horrors, is expert at mining spunk and 
solidarity from what might otherwise seem only tragic." You might also like 
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ook


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