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The Babadook

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The Babadook	label	The Babadook
The Babadook	page	TheBabadook
The Babadook	comment	The Babadook is a 2014 Australian psychological horror film directed by Jennifer Kent. Her feature directorial debut, the film is based on her 2005 short film MONSTER.Amelia (Essie Davis) is a single mom whose husband died in a car accident while driving her to the hospital to give birth to their child. Six years later, she's struggling to raise their son, Samuel. Sam has some problems, in that he's still completely terrified of monsters under his bed and builds contraptions to help kill them. This keeps him up at night and, by extension, keeps his mother in a permanent state of exhaustion. Amelia usually reads Sam a book to get him to fall asleep, and that works almost all the time.One night, after a particularly bad day, Sam wants to sleep in the same bed as Amelia (again), so she lets him pick the book to read. He picks a red pop-up book that neither of them has ever seen before to read. The book, called Mister Babadook, introduces the reader to the namesake character, a seemingly friendly monster that wants to be friends with the reader. He shows up at their door with a rumble and three sharp knocks — written as "ba BA-ba DOOK! DOOK! DOOK!" — and once he's let in, he'll eventually take off his funny disguise, and then you'll wish you were dead.This terrifies Sam and aggravates his behavioural issues to the point where he becomes convinced that the Babadook is real and stalking them. Amelia denies its existence, and eventually tears up the book and throws it into the trash. However, the book returns to her doorstep days later, repaired and with brand new pages depicting a blonde woman not dissimilar in appearance to Amelia committing graphic acts of violence, all under the shadowy influence of the Babadook.She doesn't take it very well.Now has a Characters Sheet.
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The Babadook / int_10cb9a31	type	Axes at School
The Babadook / int_10cb9a31	comment	Axes at School: Sam somehow mananged to sneak a crossbow into school.
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The Babadook / int_12336d7d	type	Table Space
The Babadook / int_12336d7d	comment	Table Space: An early supper scene shows mother and son sitting each at the far end of the kitchen table, symbolizing some emotional gap.
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The Babadook / int_12e2a068	type	Alone Among the Couples
The Babadook / int_12e2a068	comment	Alone Among the Couples: Amelia as a result of Oskar's death. There's one particular scene where she longingly watches a couple making out in their car.
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The Babadook / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Babadook / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Samuel screams "Don't let it in!" continuously after supposedly having seen the Babadook.
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The Babadook / int_14e41a53	type	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Babadook / int_14e41a53	comment	The cartoon Samuel and Amelia watch on TV shows A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing which mirrors the Babadook possessing Amelia in order to get to Samuel.
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The Babadook / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
The Babadook / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Amelia accuses the teacher and headmaster in the second scene of treating her son this way when they fail to refer to him by name.
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The Babadook / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Babadook / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: It's implied, for one thing, that Amelia may have written the book herself. See Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, above.
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The Babadook / int_1d8fc71f	type	Deadly Book
The Babadook / int_1d8fc71f	comment	Deadly Book: Reading the eponymous children's book invites the monster of the title of into your home, which will end very badly for all involved (assuming that any of the events involving the Babadook take place anywhere outside the mind of the protagonist, that is).
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The Babadook / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Babadook / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: During one of her episodes, Amelia bites her own finger down to the bone.
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The Babadook / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The Babadook / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Amelia cares for her child, but she suffers from exhaustion and severe stress as a result of his dysfunctional behavior, which damages her relationships with her friends and her sister.
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The Babadook / int_20c73e98	type	Creepy Cockroach
The Babadook / int_20c73e98	comment	Creepy Cockroach: Cockroaches appear all over the place in association with the Babadook.
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The Babadook / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
The Babadook / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Amelia is constantly seen rubbing her cheek, apparently suffering from tooth pain. After killing the family dog, Amelia (possessed by the Babadook) reaches into her mouth and pulls out one of her molars, obviously through a lot of pain.
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The Babadook / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Babadook / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The real-life edition is extended to have a full story like an actual kids' book, rather than ending with the in-universe threats to Amelia, with more illustrations and pages drawing from Amelia and Sam's confrontation and victory over it to finish the macabre story while keeping the film's themes.
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The Babadook / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Babadook / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Implied. Amelia's neighbor talks about how much Sam reminds her of Oskar, and mentions how Oskar loved magic tricks and games like Sam does.
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The Babadook / int_271ec178	type	IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight
The Babadook / int_271ec178	comment	"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: After Amelia is completely taken over by the Babadook, Samuel subdues her with his various homemade weapons, ties her down, and engages her in a round of this trope. It works.
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The Babadook / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Babadook / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Pretty much the central fear at the core of the story. The woman in the pop-up book does this. This, of course represents Amelia after the Babadook has possessed her. Averted as she doesn't succeed.
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The Babadook / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Babadook / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Oskar. Granted, he's dead, but he's still gone.
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The Babadook / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
The Babadook / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: Amelia's increasing frustration with Samuel's antisocial behaviour makes it easy for the Babadook to make her want to kill him.
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The Babadook / int_29d16652	type	Removed from the Picture
The Babadook / int_29d16652	comment	Removed from the Picture: Amelia finds a photo on her bed showing her together with her husband with the latter's face being scratched out.
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The Babadook / int_2bf83d5f	type	Extremely Protective Child
The Babadook / int_2bf83d5f	comment	Extremely Protective Child: Sam is an extreme example. He is constantly afraid of something coming to get him and Amelia, and he has to actually step up and protect Amelia - and himself - after the Babadook possesses her. Probably. Or she's having a total dissociative episode and he has to get her out of it before she kills him.
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The Babadook / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Babadook / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Amelia startles this way from a Nightmare Sequence at one point.
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The Babadook / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
The Babadook / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Amelia takes a bath fully clothed after causing a car accident with her son in the backseat.
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The Babadook / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Babadook / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Conversely, the real-life book doesn't have the pages Amelia reads detailing the possession, nor the popup of Amelia holding out her arms under the looming Babadook's influence. Instead, a few pages talking to a now-general audience of parents has its own speech about possession on text-only pages and goes to the murder popups.
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The Babadook / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
The Babadook / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: During the climax, a possessed Amelia says to Sam that sometimes she wishes he'd died instead of Oskar.
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The Babadook / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Babadook / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The Babadook spends its days stalking women and slowly driving them to abuse and then murder their own children.
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The Babadook / int_35abddd7	type	Trip Trap
The Babadook / int_35abddd7	comment	Trip Trap: Samuel trips his possessed mother this way when she is on the stairs leading to the basement where he was hiding. He stretches the rope, she trips and hits her head on a wall which makes her dizzy and an easy target for Samuel to knock her out.
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The Babadook / int_3f76f32	type	Bad Black Barf
The Babadook / int_3f76f32	comment	Bad Black Barf: Amelia vomits up some when she expels the Babadook from her body.
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The Babadook / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Babadook / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Even after Amelia defeats the Babadook, it continues to live in their basement, feeding off of the worms she gathers for it; plus the dog's dead. However, the relationship between mother and son is repaired after the film's events, Amelia is finally able to come to terms with the death of her husband, and it concludes with her lovingly embracing him.
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The Babadook / int_4623b3bb	type	Why Couldn't You Be Different?
The Babadook / int_4623b3bb	comment	Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Exasperated with Sam's acting out one day on a drive, Amelia slams her foot on the brakes and screams at him.
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The Babadook / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
The Babadook / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Horribly deconstructed. Unlike the usual play of this trope, Oskar died the same day Sam was born, so Amelia had every reason to anticipate a long, happy life with her husband and child. Instead, her grief over Oskar's death and her attempts to be a loving mother to Sam are deeply tangled, and she can't even celebrate Sam's birthday on the proper day. Towards the end of the film, she screams at Sam that sometimes she wishes she'd lost her baby, and not her husband.
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The Babadook / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
The Babadook / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: Under the influence of the Babadook, Amelia cuts the phone line to prevent Samuel from calling out for help.
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The Babadook / int_49d3b595	type	Cradle of Loneliness
The Babadook / int_49d3b595	comment	Cradle of Loneliness: At one point we see Amelia sleep with her husband's violin in her arms.
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The Babadook / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Babadook / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Or was, at least, and a variant. Amelia was a children's book illustrator. She may have wrote the Babadook book.
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The Babadook / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Babadook / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In-universe, when reading the pop-up book. Amelia's already a bit weirded out by it, but the lines "See him in your room at night, and you won't sleep a wink" cause her to go speechless and nervously flip through the rest.
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The Babadook / int_4f40f2b9	type	You Can Run, but You Can't Hide
The Babadook / int_4f40f2b9	comment	You Can Run, but You Can't Hide: Amelia locks all the doors and windows in the house. Then when Samuel runs from her, she shouts "Run, run, run, as fast as you can!" his way knowing that he cannot escape her.
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The Babadook / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
The Babadook / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: "Mister Babadook" is a bad book.
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The Babadook / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Babadook / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police make no effort to corroborate Amelia's claims that she's being stalked, treating her with open doubt and even amusement from the start. They clearly think that she's crazy, but are also perfectly content to let an apparently delusional woman just walk right back out again with no investigation. While it is understandable that they might be frustrated about the burned book, there is absolutely no justification why they don't at least act on the phone calls.
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The Babadook / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Babadook / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: "I AM YOUR MOTHER!!"
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The Babadook / int_5e032315	type	One-Book Author
The Babadook / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: As of 2023, Noah Wiseman's only film.
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The Babadook / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
The Babadook / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	Implied Love Interest: Played with Robbie, Amelia's co-worker. It's implied he'll come in and begin to make Amelia's life better, but after he comes to visit and sees how dysfunctional Amelia and Sam are, the scene cuts to just Amelia putting the roses on the table, hinting Robbie simply ran off after what happened. The fact Robbie doesn't appear after that is an obvious subversion of this trope.
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The Babadook / int_5ff126b7	type	Troubled Fetal Position
The Babadook / int_5ff126b7	comment	Troubled Fetal Position: Samuel hides in his room and assumes this pose after his mother shouted at him.
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The Babadook / int_60a2dd1c	type	Bugs Herald Evil
The Babadook / int_60a2dd1c	comment	Bugs Herald Evil: Cockroaches appear all over the place in association with the Babadook, but serve more as a herald of its influence than a reflection of its appearance.
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The Babadook / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
The Babadook / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: ba Ba-ba... DOOK! DOOK! DOOK! "You can bring me the boy."
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The Babadook / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
The Babadook / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: Near the beginning, Amelia decides to relieve some of her tension by masturbating via vibrator. Unfortunately, Sam barges into her room right as she reaches orgasm. She's frustrated, to say the least. Also a partial example, since Sam never catches on to what his mother was doing at that moment.
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The Babadook / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Babadook / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: At the climax, when Amelia is choking Sam to death, what does he do in response? Reaches down to tenderly caress her cheek, giving her the strength to win the I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight.
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The Babadook / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Babadook / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While there a hundred or so more diplomatic ways to put it, Amelia's sister isn't the least bit wrong about how she and Sam are both in dire need of professional help.
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The Babadook / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Babadook / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: About as close as you could get, as Samuel's father died in a car accident when they were on the way to the hospital so Amelia could give birth to Samuel. Because of the tragic juxtaposition, Amelia doesn't let Samuel celebrate his birthday on the date, though this is clearly more for her sake than for his. A big step in her emotional recovery comes when she is willing to allow the real birthday to be recognized and celebrated.
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The Babadook / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Babadook / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words "LET ME IN!" "You can't get rid of the Babadook." "Don't go away."
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The Babadook / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Babadook / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: When Amelia encounters her husband in the basement. His refusal to refer to their son by name tips her off.
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The Babadook / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
The Babadook / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: Played with in that after Amelia tears up the book, it returns hastily repaired and with new pages. This stops after she burns it.
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The Babadook / int_7d7ff0b0	type	Crashing Dreams
The Babadook / int_7d7ff0b0	comment	Crashing Dreams: Samuel's shouting at her bedside filters into Amelia's dream sequence in the opening scene.
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The Babadook / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Babadook / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Oskar in Amelia's final hallucination, who is not decapitated, but the top of his head is sliced off. It's the only real piece of gore in the film, and it's not pretty.
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The Babadook / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Babadook / int_815556aa	comment	Tome of Eldritch Lore: The scary pop-up book that introduces the Babadook and causes him to torment Amelia and Samuel.
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The Babadook / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Babadook / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Ruby complains about accidentally getting two of the same exact gift and even openly mocks Sam for his dad being dead.
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The Babadook / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
The Babadook / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: The film deliberately chooses not to outright explain the true nature of the Babadook, but rather lets the events unfold as they happen. This leaves plenty of room for the viewer to either take the creature's manifestation at face value or read into the subtext behind it as they wish.
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The Babadook / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Babadook / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Sam pushes Ruby out of the treehouse, breaking her nose in two places. While it causes no end of Hell for Amelia having to deal with the repercussions of Sam's actions, no one will say the little shit didn't deserve it because she mocked Sam for the fact that his father is dead.
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The Babadook / int_8f046955	type	Funny Terrain Cross Section
The Babadook / int_8f046955	comment	Funny Terrain Cross Section: Played for incredibly dark laughs; at the very end, a pan shot starts underneath the ground of the garden and you can see the corpse of the family dog buried there.
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The Babadook / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
The Babadook / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: The woman in the book, who represents Amelia. The Babadook itself does this to Amelia after she denies it/her grief for too long.
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The Babadook / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Babadook / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The Babadook spends the movie tormenting the family with intent of possessing Amelia to kill her son. At the end, its power is completely broken, leaving it entirely dependent on Amelia feeding it worms.
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The Babadook / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Babadook / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The Babadook represents, in part, grief, and how denying grief makes it grow into a terrible monster that can change who you are from the inside out. Notice how the real turnabout in the film comes when Amelia admits to Sam that she's sick, and that she needs help, and in the end the Babadook isn't banished or destroyed — it just has to be lived with. Amelia feeds it every day (that is, indulges in her grief) and it no longer has power, because she's accepting the issue. Critics have also suggested that the Babadook embodies resentment, anger, survivor's guilt, and the deep worries of parenthood.
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The Babadook / int_91ba819e	type	Chimney Entry
The Babadook / int_91ba819e	comment	Early on, Amelia reads from a picture-book where a wolf comes down the chimney. Later the Babadook does the same.
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The Babadook / int_93387c2e	type	Monster Delay
The Babadook / int_93387c2e	comment	Monster Delay: Most of the first half of the movie seems to be completely empty until a character moves and reveals that the presence has been there the whole time. The Babadook doesn't make an obvious appearance until an hour into the movie.
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The Babadook / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
The Babadook / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: The basement turns into one in the third act.
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The Babadook / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Babadook / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: One of those rare cases where this trope gets justified - there are therapists, but Amelia has to wait for two weeks so they can't be brought in quickly enough to prevent Amelia's breakdown. By the end of the film, Amelia is shown to be (finally) recovering from the death of her husband and social workers are in attendance to mentor Sam's introduction to a new school.
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The Babadook / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
The Babadook / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: More than one person who knew Amelia's husband, Oskar, says that Samuel takes after him, in a positive way. Unusually for this trope, Amelia's reaction to this is tight-lipped denial.
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The Babadook / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
The Babadook / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: Except for a few split seconds where it's portrayed by a man in a costume, the Babadook's movements are done in Stop Motion. It really adds to the whole "child's story gone horribly, horribly wrong" effect.
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The Babadook / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Babadook / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, Amelia reads from a picture-book where a wolf comes down the chimney. Later the Babadook does the same. The cartoon Samuel and Amelia watch on TV shows A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing which mirrors the Babadook possessing Amelia in order to get to Samuel. There is a news report on TV about a homicide case of a woman using a kitchen knife to stab her son whose body is later found in the basement. The images in the "Mister Babadook" book, when returned to Amelia, actually foretell most of the third act. Amelia's pet peeve of her son being referred to clinically as "the boy" rather than by his name not only lets her catch out a tempting Babadook who makes the error, but it serves as a strong sign that Amelia truly does love Sam despite her mounting frustrations.
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The Babadook / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
The Babadook / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The film takes place near Sam and his cousin's birthdays. Sam's birthday is also the day his father died.
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The Babadook / int_a0d22bfe	type	Inescapable Horror
The Babadook / int_a0d22bfe	comment	Inescapable Horror: Once you've learned about the Babadook, you can't get rid of it. Not even after expelling it from your body and showing it who's boss. It will still live in your basement. You can't get rid of the Babadook. This is part of the movie's metaphor for grief, as it will always exist after a tragedy, but can be dealt with healthily if you face the issue.
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The Babadook / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
The Babadook / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: The opening scene of the car accident is a nightmare Amelia is having.
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The Babadook / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Babadook / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: With the exception of Ms. Roach, the male co-worker and the Community Services couple, none of the other adults in this film are helpful or even really all that nice to Amelia and Sam. Most everyone else considers them a nuisance or even dangerous due to Sam's mental problems and Amelia's anxiety as a result.
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The Babadook / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Babadook / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": The Babadook.
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The Babadook / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Babadook / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Sam learns conjuring tricks from a DVD, later this enables him to avoid taking the sedative by palming it.
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The Babadook / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Babadook / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In a last-ditch effort to break her, the Babadook torments Amelia with a vision of her husband's death. Instead of being terrified, she's enraged to the point where she can scream the Babadook into submission.
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The Babadook / int_ad43ba7f	type	Non-Nude Bathing
The Babadook / int_ad43ba7f	comment	Non-Nude Bathing: After one of her breakdowns, Amelia goes and sits in the bath fully clothed. When Sam comes to try and talk her out, she picks him up and puts him in the bath as well, despite his obvious discomfort.
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The Babadook / int_b31c84f9	type	Evil Is Not Well-Lit
The Babadook / int_b31c84f9	comment	Evil Is Not Well-Lit: Even when the Babadook appears, it is always shadowed or only partially seen.
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The Babadook / int_ba950781	type	Ball Cannon
The Babadook / int_ba950781	comment	Ball Cannon: Sam constructs a cricket ball launcher as one of his weapons to fight the monsters. The first time he uses it, he smashes a window, and the second time he hits Amelia in the head.
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The Babadook / int_baeb2d6f	type	Glass-Shattering Sound
The Babadook / int_baeb2d6f	comment	Glass-Shattering Sound: Amelia's scream at the end shatters a mirror, a window and a glass lamp.
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The Babadook / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Babadook / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A sleep-deprived and very frustrated Amelia lets one rip at Sam after he keeps pestering her about needing something to eat with his medication. She immediately regrets it afterwards.
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The Babadook / int_bc1faa80	type	Mirror Scare
The Babadook / int_bc1faa80	comment	Mirror Scare: When out driving with Sam, Amelia sees the Babadook in the rear-view mirror as it climbs on top of the car.
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The Babadook / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Babadook / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Mentioning Oskar's death or comparing him to Samuel immediately causes Amelia to snap early in the film, before she's dealt with her grief. Also, referring to Samuel as "the boy" instead of by his name.
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The Babadook / int_bcbe3097	type	EveryOneLives
The Babadook / int_bcbe3097	comment	Everyone Lives: Everyone alive at the beginning of the film stays alive at the end, marking a rare achievement for characters in a horror movie. Excluding the poor dog.
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The Babadook / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Babadook / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Amelia, when possessed, sports this a few times.
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The Babadook / int_bfb0f737	type	Poorly Lit Pareidolia
The Babadook / int_bfb0f737	comment	Poorly Lit Pareidolia: Twice. Earlier in the film, Amelia is in the basement and is momentarily startled by a coat and hat hanging on the wall in emulation of the Babadook. Later in the film, the same thing happens at a police station.
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The Babadook / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Babadook / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: When the Babadook visits Amelia while she's asleep, he pauses before leaping/falling toward her. When Amelia is cleaning the dishes for the second time, she looks across to Mrs. Roach's living room, only to see the Babadook looming over her neighbor in the shadows. When the Babadook floats down the hall toward Amelia, there's a pause before it suddenly spreads its fingers, startling her enough to make her run away.
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The Babadook / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
The Babadook / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: The woman in the book does this to her dog and a child, breaking their necks. Amelia does this to her dog, but fails her attempt with Sam.
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The Babadook / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The Babadook / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: This is how the woman in the book offs her dog and child. And how Amelia offs her dog.
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The Babadook / int_c52a5525	type	Gulliver Tie-Down
The Babadook / int_c52a5525	comment	Gulliver Tie-Down: When Sam's traps temporarily stun possessed-Amelia, she wakes up tied down in the basement this way. Sam's knots aren't as good as his inventions, and she wrests her hands-free.
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The Babadook / int_c5821f0e	type	Ghostly Glide
The Babadook / int_c5821f0e	comment	Ghostly Glide: The Babadook visibly hovers down the hall toward Amelia before extending its claws. Due to the obfuscating length of its coat, it's impossible to tell if it even has legs.
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The Babadook / int_c6aa9afc	type	First-Person Perspective
The Babadook / int_c6aa9afc	comment	First-Person Perspective: At the end of the film, this is the only way we see whatever's left of the Babadook after it finally loses to Amelia.
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The Babadook / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Babadook / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Babadook's design appears to be one big homage to silent horror cinema in the early days of film, as he has elements of the Man in the Beaver Hat from London After Midnight, and of Count Orlok from Nosferatu, with perhaps a little from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari's Cesare. Strengthening the connotations, Amelia also sees him appearing in London After Midnight, a spooky silent film they watch on TV. Amelia and Sam (mainly Amelia, as Sam is falling asleep) watch an episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. When a Babadook-possessed Amelia corners Sam, the back-and-forth they have mirrors the bat scene from The Shining. Amelia/Jack repeats something that Sam/Wendy says in a snide, mocking tone, and states that they want to bash Sam/Wendy's brains in. It's even more explicit in the script, with Babadook!Amelia screaming "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your fucking door in!", almost an exact riff on the Here's Johnny scene. The Phantom of the Opera (1925), showing its most famous scene - the Phantom's unmasking - appears among the programs Amelia watches on TV.
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The Babadook / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
The Babadook / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	Smash to Black: The scene cuts to black when Samuel trips Amelia in the basement and she hits her head on the floor.
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The Babadook / int_cb44cd57	type	Ominous Television
The Babadook / int_cb44cd57	comment	Ominous Television: While suffering from insomnia and trying to escape from Sam, Amelia watches a news report about a mother who kills her son. Then she sees a grinning version of herself in the background of the report, holding a butcher's knife.
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The Babadook / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Babadook / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's entirely possible that there was no monster at all, and that Amelia was actually just crazy. She mentions that she used to write "kids' stuff" before her husband died, suggesting that she might have written the Babadook book herself, and Sam's fixation on protecting himself from monsters could easily be a desire to protect himself from his mother, associating the threat from her depression with the new image of the Babadook to make it easier to comprehend (his fear of the Babadook could really be a fear of his mother losing herself, "going away"). And possession doesn't necessarily have to be the explanation for her behavior during the climax.
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The Babadook / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Babadook / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The protagonist is Amelia.
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The Babadook / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Babadook / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The pop-up book and its titular monster are completely black-and-white, except for the red ribbon used for blood in the second book. The whole movie overall has a very desaturated, greyscale color scheme with very few intense tones. This was actually done with very careful lighting and set design, no post-production work was done to get that effect.
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The Babadook / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Babadook / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Ms. Roach comes across as this, not because she's any kind of badass figure, but because she seems like the only person who has the vaguest idea of the pain Amelia and Samuel live with every day. She never treats them as untouchable, and wants to do everything she can to help them.
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The Babadook / int_d71073b5	type	Subverted Kids' Show
The Babadook / int_d71073b5	comment	Subverted Kids' Show: The "Mister Babadook" pop-up book. It starts off seeming like a quirky but harmless story about a monster who comes to your house, but the visuals quickly become more nightmarish, and the text turns threatening. Amelia can't even continue reading it aloud, and Samuel gets increasingly panicked, becoming terrified of the Babadook.
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The Babadook / int_dc1c7647	type	Voice of the Legion
The Babadook / int_dc1c7647	comment	"You can bring me the boy."
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The Babadook / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
The Babadook / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: "Mister Babadook" is a children's pop-up book that threatens the reader. In the film, Amelia experiences it twice, and the real-life edition of the book preserves this, featuring pages talking to skeptical parents who may be reading, assuring them that what they are reading is not just a kids' story.
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The Babadook / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Babadook / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Amelia's love for Samuel ultimately overpowers the Babadook, releasing her from his control, which also leads to her Talking the Monster to Death.
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The Babadook / int_e2d7a02f	type	I'm Not Afraid of You
The Babadook / int_e2d7a02f	comment	I'm Not Afraid of You: The monster is defeated when Amelia unleashes her maternal rage on it.
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The Babadook / int_e4062526	type	Demonic Head Shake
The Babadook / int_e4062526	comment	Demonic Head Shake: Amelia's head shakes violently in the basement while she is driving out the Babadook.
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The Babadook / int_e9269f72	type	It Was Here, I Swear!
The Babadook / int_e9269f72	comment	It Was Here, I Swear!: Amelia attempts to show the social workers the hole where the cockroaches were getting in, only to find a flat, undamaged section of wall. This makes her look even crazier.
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The Babadook	hasFeature	The Babadook / int_e9269f72
The Babadook / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
The Babadook / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Amelia's last stand against the Babadook consists of her screaming at it until it runs away out of sheer terror.
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The Babadook / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The Babadook / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: After Amelia and Samuel drive the Babadook out of Amelia's body, it makes one last attempt to claim Samuel before Amelia screams it down. Then it's reduced to a shuddering, crying shadow of its former self that meekly hides in Amelia's basement.
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The Babadook / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Babadook / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The police officer who openly laughs at Amelia when she goes to the station to report that she's being stalked with a scary pop-up book.
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The Babadook / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
The Babadook / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Amelia's husband. Her son was born the day he died, so his very existence is a painful reminder that her old life is gone forever.
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The Babadook / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
The Babadook / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: The Babadook seeks to corrupt Amelia into murdering her son and killing herself.
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The Babadook / int_f5e01bcc	type	Mental Monster
The Babadook / int_f5e01bcc	comment	Mental Monster: Its Creepy Cockroach motif is also a representation of Amelia's decaying mental state, with swarms of the insects only she can see appearing in her home behind rotting walls.
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The Babadook / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Babadook / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Amelia and Samuel have to go through a lot of pain to get their catharsis.
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The Babadook	hasFeature	The Babadook / int_f64a9cf7
The Babadook / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
The Babadook / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: Amelia is not over the sudden and traumatic death of her husband, Oskar. Late in the film, we see that she still wears his wedding ring, seven years after his death. Because the Babadook ends up retreating to the closet where Oskar's things are kept, you can read the ending of the film as Amelia accepting that she never will be over it, not wholly, but has to live with the grief day by day.
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The Babadook / int_fa4bf618	type	Blank Book
The Babadook / int_fa4bf618	comment	Blank Book: "Mister Babadook" appears to be half-finished, with several blank pages at the end. When the book returns after Amelia tears it up, those pages have been filled, and very much for the worse.
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The Babadook / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
The Babadook / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: The family dog barks at Amelia whenever she is possessed by the Babadook.
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The Babadook	hasFeature	Antagonist Title / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Bad Black Barf / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Ball Cannon / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Blank Book / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Bring My Brown Pants / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Caught with Your Pants Down / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Chimney Entry / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Clingy MacGuffin / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Completely Different Title / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Creepy Cockroach / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Creepy Long Fingers / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Dead Unicorn Trope / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Deadly Book / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Deceptively Silly Title / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Demon Works / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Demonic Possession / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Developing Doomed Characters / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Everybody Lives / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Evil Plan / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Films of 2010â€“2014 / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Gulliver Tie-Down / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Haunted Heroine / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	I'm Not Afraid of You / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Inescapable Horror / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Invincible Boogeymen / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	It Was Here, I Swear! / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Jealous Parent / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Maternal Death? Blame the Child! / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Mental Monster / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Monster Media / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Moving Beyond Bereavement / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Network Death / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Network Finale / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Non-Nude Bathing / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Ominous Television / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Our Bugbears Are Scarier / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Our Demons Are Different / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Plot-Triggering Book / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	PokÃ©mon Speak / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Poorly Lit Pareidolia / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Resentful Guardian / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Residual Evil Entity / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Seamless Scenery / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Someone to Remember Him By / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Subverted Kids' Show / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Trip Trap / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Tulpa / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Unabashed B-Movie Fan / int_343ad13c
The Babadook	hasFeature	Verbal Tic Name / int_343ad13c

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