The Babadook
If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of...
DramaHorrormonsternightmareparent child relationshipdysfunctional familysleeplessnesssingle mothergrievingwoman directordeath of spousebehavioral disorderspsychological disorderstraumatized woman
A deeply unsettling psychological horror that uses a supernatural threat to explore grief, maternal trauma, and the dissolution of a parent-child bond.
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
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