The Babadook

Ready?

I think your dad said that the Babadook is just a straightforward movie about what having children is like. Nothing supernatural, not really horror, just basically a documentary. 

how does that make you feel?

That terrifies me!!! IM HIS KID, I mean hopefully he didn't want to kill me that badly when I was a baby

Or now

I mean (spoiler alert) she didn't want to kill it. 

She wanted to give it some nice worms. 

No, there was that whole part where she was trying to kill the kid

Remember, he had to attack her and tie her up in the basement(

I think that was the babadook trying to kill the kid

I think the babadook is the baby

The kid???

So the kid is just the monster the whole time?

He's the real antagonist of the movie

The way I think of it is, the babadook is the second child

Okaaaay

The prospect of having other kids?

you survive the first one and it's stressful and everything, but then you have a second baby and suddenly you are so sleep deprived that you become a monster and the baby is also a monster?

Well yeah, but there's only one kid in the movie, how would the second kid *be* the monster when there's only the one?

Or do you mean the monster in life, not the movie

I guess the way I thought of it was that the babadook is a metaphor for parenthood.
(Which is not exactly the same as David's take.) 

Do you think the movie is mostly about sleep deprivation?

Probably. Another theory is that she was just so sleep deprived that she hallucinated the whole thing

In that case, what is the kid's experience of the whole thing?

And is the dog really dead at the end?

The dog died because nobody fed it

And the kid was too young to think it was anything weird when his mom just randomly started running around the house w a knife

does the book exist?

Yes, but it's not actually a weird book, once they read it the first time it just left, nothing really happened

okay so how scary was it?

rating scale of one to five nights-with-the-lights-on

one being gossip girl and five being your-dad-let-you-watch-the-ring-when-you-were-nine

Well, I only slept with the lights on once, but I'd give it a 3 on scariness?

I wasn't thinking of the one to five scale as literal

maybe that's not a good scale

Ooh, then a one

what?

I mean, I don't usually have to sleep with the lights on when I watch a scary movie, but like half the stuff that happens in Babadook happens when they fall asleep

I think we should on the blog always rate the movies on a scale of one to five for scariness etc

and we could come up with different name for it every week

Oooooh I love it

Like on a scale of one to five Jack-Nicholson-in-the-Shinings

Hahahahaha amazing

This must be implemy

*implemented

I think it (Babadook) is definitely a little scary, it gets in your head a little because so much of the scary stuff is like normal noises that a house makes at night, so you're falling asleep and a cat knocks over a cup and you're like it's the babadook! 

I don't know, maybe a three? 2.5?

I know!!! And it doesn't help that our cats are so freaking loud and crashy l the time

2.5-3 sounds right to me

Also, I always tell myself this to feel better when i watch a horror movie, im just like "don't worry, nothing could fit under your bed anyways"

how about rewatchability? 

from 1 to His Girl Friday 🙂

Uuuuh, like a 4? I think?

It wasn't just good the once, but itd definitely be less scary if we watched it again