The Babadook

The Babadook
The Babadook
Directed by	Jennifer Kent
Produced by	Kristina Ceyton; Kristian Moliere
Written by	Jennifer Kent
Starring	Essie Davis; Noah Wiseman; Hayley McElhinney; Daniel Henshall; Barbara West; Ben Winspear
Music by	Jed Kurzel
Cinematography	Radek Ladczuk
Edited by	Simon Njoo
Production; company	Causeway Films United Kingdom, Screen Australia
Distributed by	Entertainment One; IFC Films; Icon Productions
Release date	17 January 2014 (Sundance); 22 May 2014 (Australia);
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$6.7 million

The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror drama movie, written and directed by Jennifer Kent as her directorial debut.^[3] It is about a woman and her son being tortured by an evil spirit based on a child's book. The movie stars Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman, while Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney, Barbara West, and Ben Winspear appear in supporting roles.

The Babadook was produced by Causeway Films (Kristina Ceyton) and is based on the short movie Monster (2005), also written and directed by Kent. The movie was shown at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and received positive reviews.^[4]^[5] On Rotten Tomatoes' aggregation, it was ranked as the third most-liked movie of the year.^[6]

The Babadook Media

Writer and director Jennifer Kent
The monster design for the Babadook was inspired by the Man in the Beaver Hat in London After Midnight (1927).
Essie Davis' performance as Amelia was unanimously praised by both critics and audiences alike and it is widely regarded as one of the best performances of that year and in the genre.