Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook gets fully confirmed LGBTQ++ status not only from the public consensus via the internet, but also from the folks at Shout Factory and IFC Midnight as they release this new Blu-Ray edition with a sparkly joyous cover just in time for Pride Month. “If it’s in
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6 films released this year that are inspired by John Carpenter
I still hold that his latest film The Ward (2010) is not a John Carpenter film; he is not involved in both the script-work and music, which in itself is pretty self-explanatory. I think it as an unthought-of plunge to quickie horror by a legendary director who has made terrific
The Babadook
Because it hides amorphous behind so many masks, no bogeyman is outgrown by its tormented. The Babadook, Jennifer Kent’s brilliant debut as director, appears latched to this idea of everyday phantoms which on every level is true. It opens with a sequence in which Amelia (Essie Davis, literally floating in
Trailer: You can’t get rid of ‘The Babadook’
Fresh from its recent festival runs (where it is showered with much critical love; Indiewire’s Sam Adams calls it “a flat-out masterpiece”), Jennifer Kent’s fest-fave Aussie horror The Babadook has made a new trailer available online, which should just about draw in a bigger audience to terrify. The film’s set-up is simple: it revolves
