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Hide under the covers when you hear the knock—the Babadook has arrived. Continuing our love of women-centered horror, we sat down to watch Jennifer Kent’s 2014 The Babadook, and discuss themes of motherhood, grief, and the existential dread of winter in Australia.

Bonus content: A frank discussion on childhood fears and the utterly bizarre film Mars Attacks.

READING

• The Babadook (2014)
• The Babadook: The New Physicality of Ghosts in Horror by What’s So Great About That?
• The Babadook & Mad, Queer Grief — Ashley Barry, Horror Homeroom
• Late Stage Disney (YouTube)

RECS

• BELOVED, by Toni Morrison
• Hereditary (2018)
• Midsommar (2019)
• The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

CLOSING SOUNDS

• Knock on door #2 by SoundsForHim
• Music box lullaby by csnmedia
  • Note: Episode edited on November 13, 2020 for quality control adjustments. Previous closing sounds also included Creepy Lullaby, A by InspectorJ. It has since been replaced with Music box lullaby csnmedia.

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