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The Babadook

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director: Jennifer Kent
actor: Cathy Adamek Craig Behenna Daniel Henshall Essie Davis Hayley McElhinney Noah Wiseman
writer: Jennifer Kent

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“Do you want to die?!” seven-year-old Samuel asks his stressed-out single mother, Amelia. She wonders if his question is a threat or a warning. After dealing with Samuel’s frantic tantrums his entire life, Amelia suspects that her son has begun directing his violent misbehavior toward her. However, after a dark and foreboding children’s book called Mister Babadook mysteriously appears on Samuel’s bookshelf, Amelia must decide if her son is truly deranged or if there really is a bogeyman lurking in their darkened halls at night. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance Film Festival]

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