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YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THE BABADOOK. Let's just cut the crap. We've all seen The Babadook (probably). And everyone knows that the titular monster seen in the movie represents the grief of the protagonist, Amelia, who lost her husband seven years before the events of the movie.
So rather than pretending my interpretation of The Babadook is going to be some mind-blowing revelation, let's instead focus on how this character embodies grief, from the way that he behaves to his appearance, to the secret lore you can only get if you have a physical copy of the Mister Babadook book.
I'll also break down Amelia's grief using The Kübler-Ross model, which sections the process into five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. As we go though each of these stages, we'll break down this icon of modern horror.
I'll also compare the Babadook in the movie to the version of the monster seen in director Jennifer Kent's short film, Monster, which The Babadook is based on. When analyzing a creature with as much depth as this, there's a lot to unpack!
Chapters
0:00 How The Babadook Was Created
0:46 Intro
2:55 Stage 1: Denial
6:53 Factor
7:54 Stage 2: Anger
14:34 Stage 4: Depression
16:20 Stage 3: Bargaining
20:39 Stage 5: Acceptance
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Truth be told the cousin kinda deserved what she got. Making fun of someone's grief is just cruel. Besides it could have ended a lot worse.
I mean I get that was a mean thing to do and I don't necessarily blame Sam for reacting the way he did, but I also don't condone violence regardless of how rude someone's words are. Resorting to physical violence doesn't make anything better.
@@Treeeee2008 I wouldn't condone it, but what did she expect? That Sam would just take it or cry? Children should be educated about consequences like these far better than the schools would.
I Lowkey Agree
This moive was heavy on the psychological perspective thing the child was only copying and repeating the behaviors she's seen her parents do she doesn't filly understand the gravity just as much as the boy doesn't fully understand his anger and the consequences that came with it.
@@kayay101 Fully, not filly. And I know.
When I watched the babadook for the first time, I was scared of the babadook and annoyed with the kid. After my father’s passing, I re-watched and the movie wasn’t scary anymore. And I saw myself in that kid, all the anger, the sadness he felt while screaming, I felt it too. This movie is just so powerful.
I’m so sorry for your loss ❤️😔
I lost my dad too 🫂
I think you made all of that up for attention.
@@Darth-Claw-KillflexYour comment is for attention 🙄
@@Darth-Claw-Killflexfamily members die all the time,
1 thats a weird thing to lie about
2, you act like its such an uncommon impossible thing?
kick rocks kiddo, clearly lacking common sense & intellect
Hey babes, when Samuel screams 'do you want to die??' it's not him threatening his mother. It's him scared for both of their lives because he sees & truly fears the Babadook. He understands their lives are in danger. He's trying to protect them in the only way he knows how (through magic & fairytales, because those are his way of understanding the world he's in). He's saying if you don't take the Babadook seriously, we'll both die.
Bro who are you calling babe?
Only the babes bro, you don't have to worry
@@aroha9090 Uh huh....
I rlly hope ppl understood how he said it lol
@SirDankleberry it's not weird bro 😎👍
I always thought that Amelia's hands being dirty was a hint that she was the one that made the Babadook book in the first place, and she is also the one that repaired it...all without realizing it.
Yes, exactly. She mentions to those women at Ruby's party that she used to write children's stories.
How many of these Stages you Had
You can also see the art supplies on a table in the background.
Wow...I never thought of that.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Now I have to go back and rewatch the movie.
Ok but i think you missed a very important part when she brings the bowl of worms, she COMFORTS the babadook, which in terms of trauma and being that its a representation of her grief, the most important part is her showing kindness and comfort
Something I love about this movie is that it doesn't say you should fully suppress your grief or fully confront it. Instead, it shows that there's a delicate balance between facing it when it's appropriate and just sucking it up when you can't. Mental health is so fucked these days partly because people think they need to do things one way or the other instead of just doing what feels right. It's good to face your grief to learn about and overcome it, but if it's all you think about it will consume you.
@@DotKom01that’s what I love about this movie too!
For me that’s the most beautiful part of the movie
You know what no one’s talking about? This man’s wearing a polo with a tie. That’s a bold move.
A tie with the pattern of the carpet in the Overlook Hotel from The Shining no less!
That's real terror and grief
dear lord. a polo with a tie !? what a mad man
Emo Abe is a trend setter leave him alone
its casual saturday!
The shear disdain if not outright hatred people had (have?) for the character of little Samuel is a testament to the performance of Noah Wiseman who was only 6 years old at the time. Noah was (is), in reality, a very sweet and quiet child who took coaching very well and was able to ramp up his acting prowess to pull off appearing like a little nightmare kid in the movie.
This was me when I first watched it as a teen. Following the bandwagon of audience’s hatred for kids in horror movies, I found him annoying and secretly wanting him to “shut up permanently”. Now as an adult, all I feel for the poor kid was sadness and pity. I now realised that the reason I hated him as a kid was because I saw myself in him, but for me, I was forced to repress my sadness and depression because “I was attention-seeking”. I sort of resented him for being able to “act out” when all I was told was to shut up. This movie is a clear case of child abuse and the effects on children’s behaviour, where the avoidance of physical abuse doesn’t denote its absence.
so true,, you know an actor is great when they play an annoying character so well people dislike the actor theirself,, its also a bit sad because the actor often gets hate. I call it the anna gunn effect after her role as skylar white in breaking bad
Loved the actor, absolutely fucking hated the character.
@@purplewolfranger22 very strange to hate a traumatized/abused 7 year old for acting up
@@jargalo0098 thats kinda one of the main points of the movie, you see the movie from the mothers perspective where everything her son does is seen as annoying.
its like you didnt understand the video explaining it or the movie itself. i dunno maybe you just want to take a moral highground to win an internet arguement instead of seeing the movie for what it is
I really loved this movie. The Babadook was a great representation of depression and how it can drive people insane. I also love how it showed at the end of the movie that depression cant always be vanquished but it can be controlled ❤️
Psychotherapist here, great representacion of trauma too :)
Yes. I loved that she found a way to satiate the babadook. Because in real life, you can't always get rid of depression or grief and I connected with that way more.
@@bigpapapaycheck if a patient killed their dog you would have to report that crime though yeah?
@@markbasilejr9808 no, strangely enough. Dogs dont get the same consideratiom as humans
My mom hates this film I thought it was a masterpiece I love the representation of grief of thought Essie Davis was excellent & though I wanted to shake Samuel til he stopped I thought he acted to perfection
To me it also always felt like a analogy on her inability to love her son, partly of course due to her grief and partly due to holding her son responsible for not having her husband anymore. The movie is in both regards very deep - and i really love it for that.
call me judgemental but someone who kills their dog and has to be convinced to love their own children should be in friday the 13th films and not have a redempton arch. I specifically say this in the context of you reasoning that her inability to love her son is not a manifestation of her grief.
@@markbasilejr9808 i did not say that - i said imo its partly due to the grief (and im that of course following the Argumentation of the Video) - but i think there are other factors aswell.
And forgiveness - in this case herself just as much as her son - is a key factor. She is often portraied projecting her lack of Joy onto her son. Especially in the masturbation scene, when he "denies" her the climax.
The haunting/ posession by the Babadook takes All of this into very extreme Situations. But like i said: i would never go as far as to say grief had not a at least similarly big Part in all of this.
Also: her son came into her life as a trade-off for her husband who she obviously REALLY loved. And then to get a kid, that is arguably hard to love due to its ADHD Tendencies and Borderline annoying behavior, is also a factor in how it could be neccessary to learn to love this child. Especially when you hold him involuntarily responsible for what happened.
But thats just my way of reading this.
She does love her son, but she also resents him because in her mind, he's the reason her husband died. Those emotions are not mutually exclusive; grief is messy and complex. @@markbasilejr9808
@@markbasilejr9808I feel like she definitely does not deserve a redemption but I think in the context of this movie where we are trying to see her recover it makes sense. She can't fully recover or make up for past mistakes she just has to learn to live with them knowing they happened the way they did
@@markbasilejr9808 damn bro you really going to undermine the entire message of the movie and the literal horror ramifications of the movie to take a moral highground here?
first of all the entire movie was meant to show that your grief can make you do horrible things that you will regret and that you HAVE to face it or it will drive you insane
second of all its a horror movie with a monster that can take over peoples minds and actions.
did you ignore EVERYTHING to take this shite opinion or are you just stupid?
also you really going to undermine everything to reduce her to just "someone who kills their dog and has to be convinced to love their son"? weak shit man, truly pathetic
Just a short remark: It's not that the kid becomes "the man in the house", it's actually the reversal of child-parent-roles often happening with (a) dysfunctional parent(s).
I think he knows that he was being sarcastic💀
I'm pretty sure it's sarcasm. There's no way someone in 2023 would unironically say that haha (publicly, at least)
Yeah that was pretty blatant sarcasm, but I agree with your comment, it also would've been also nice for CZ to mention Minuchin's theory of parentification which is especially prevalent in single-parent households. It fits the story of the Babadook so perfectly, with the kid having a better understanding of grief+having to calm and parent their own mother because she's dysregulated etc., I wonder what Minuchin thinks about Babadook haha
Amelia screaming “why can’t you just be normal?!” will always live in my head rent free lmao
(Amazing new horror history though! :))
LOL SAME HERE
It's not in your head
That's just your family talking to you
Great meme too
@@aliasfakename3159’why can’t you just be normal?!’ *bird shrieking*
Babadook: because I make u BABASHOOK.
Amelia: (more bird noises)
My mom suffered from depression and had manic episodes since I could remember. She and my father would constantly fight and I think she was just unable to be her best self for me and now that I am older I can understand her a little better. This movie had brought back that stomach turning feeling and feeling small again. My heart goes out to any child in fear because of an adult dealing with mental health problems. It truly does feel like a scary movie or nightmare you can’t escape from.
That's sad af bro, props to you for dealing with it and pushing through
The fact no one got ur mother the help she needed shows your family is useless
I feel what you say my mom had the same episode same reason, I so feel what you say
Well I hope she's doing better as well as you
I might have not experienced quite the same thing, but I understand what it's like to be afraid of your parent, my mom has anxiety and whenever she had an attack, she'd often yell scream and blame us (us being me and my two sisters) this often made me afraid of her, but I grew and started to understand why she did those things. (Probably could've used better word choices but I'm tired)
I think the dirt and worms also symbolize her accepting her husband is dead. She gives dirt and worms to her monster much like adding dirt to a grave.
Hmmm yeah, filling in that metaphorical void in her mind and putting the memory of her husband to rest. It's even in the basement of the house... where she's "buried" the reminders of him too.
Plenty of symbolism there
The Babadook is a good analogy for grief, depression, & that little disparaging voice in the back of your mind. The point isn’t to get rid of it or change it, but to learn how to live with it. Make room for it, & use it to be better.
Personally, I’ve given the little mean voice a new job. Instead of tearing me down, it now tears down the bad thoughts before they can grow. I can’t get rid of it, nor change it, but I can give it a new purpose.
Oh gosh, this sounds similar to what I learned to do with my trauma/PTSD. I will make the past fight the new... I've convinced myself it weakens the issue and it makes it more bearable for me to handle. Basically, nothing will ever beat the horrors of my past. If I can survive that then I can survive this new thing.
Its worked really well for me.
@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 I hear you. The past won’t go away, but it can be put to work on offense. It’s helpful in many ways. Basically, if nothing could ever be worse, then you can conquer anything.
Reading this meant a lot to me. Thank you
@@julianyc422 ❤️
That is a badass way to look at it....thanks forever for that! :D
Literally just now dawned on me that reversing the first few consonants gives you "Dada book"
Oh my gosh-
Sometimes I think about that time when Netflix accidentally put the Babadook under the LGBTQ+ section for like a week and Tumblr lost its mind. Good times. We love Ally Babadook.
tumblr shipping Babadook and Pennywise was a crazy time on that site
LMAO
@@sigsomethingWHAT
BabaSHOOK
@@sigsomethingNawrr 💀
I remember watching this movie for the first time and realizing the reason everyone hated the kid was because he was acting like an actual child. I’ve noticed most of the time hated kid characters in movie and shows just behave like an actual child would and that’s what makes everyone mad. Personally I adore the kid he just need help
I will never stop being baffled at the advanced levels of emotional maturity that adults demand from children. Emotional regulation that is developmentally impossible for them even if the adults around them are setting good examples (which is too often not the case). Seriously, where do these expectations come from?? 😢
Yeah but I also don't think you should be expected to like kids then. Yeah it's normal behaviour and not their fault, but I just don't like it and don't want kids, which nobody should be blamed for either.
i think that's exactly why I dislike the character so much XD I can't stand children
@@axemaster8331 that’s not a good thing my dude
@@Fairy_Teeth how so? It’s not like I’m planning on having any. I don’t see the problem with not liking children
I seem to recall Emelia mentioning that she used to work in publishing or as an illustrator or something along those lines.
I took that as an indication that she had created the book.
Yes, during the birthday party with all the other moms you can hear them talk about how she used to be an illustrator. It's subtle but if you listen closely you can catch it.
@EveryonesHiro88 Yes, that's it! thanks. been a while since I watched this movie.
It's a hard watch for many of the same reasons it's effective.
They weren't fighting words. He was asking if she wanted to die because she wasn't taking the proper precautions and letting him defend her. It's easy to take it as a threat, but it's a frustrated warning about a fate that only he can see coming. I imagine old Moses had that same thought after seeing the golden calf over a ridge while coming down the mountain.
I genuinely think this film is an underrated masterpiece, one of the most effective films at producing slow building tension I've ever seen in my life, and that monochrome dark fairy-tale vibe is just to die for
I feel the same way, I got defensive when he made the comparisons to all the other super schlocky films that have the same tropes but.. he's not entirely wrong. I just thing that the core conceit of the film is so strong and the actual filmmaking so good i never once judged it for aping those horror tropes. plus the music is brilliant and the performances of the mom and son are absolutely phenomenal. everything about the films design is incredible and it's so scary. Even just some of the faces Essie Davis makes when she's fully gone mad are pure nightmare fuel.
Not gonna lie, the “well that’s the end of the internet” line was our favorite part of an always good movie.
I loved the Babadook! I enjoyed that the Babadook never goes away. Depression doesn’t go away, you just learn to manage it.
When the kid says "Do you wanna die?" I think he meant that he wouldn't be able to protect his mom without the weapons, and she would die. I don't think he was threatening her
I find this movie really interesting and I loved the ending where basically it’s like the monster isn’t vanquished, but you learn to live with it.
"Welcome to the kill count" fr made me laugh.
At the start, I hated Sam, but after hearing "Why can't you just be normal?!" I started to feel for him
The Babadook somewhat reminds me of the book/movie Beloved. The main character's grief was so powerful that it manifested/incarcerated as a grown version of her deceased infant and it wreaks absolute havoc on her and her surviving family until it drains her physically, mentally and emotionally just like Amelia. There is also extensive harm done to the family's dog at the hands of the angry entity.
To the horror film industry: we will all be FINE if you quit writing characters who kill their dogs! 😭
The way I see it, after watching this movie a few times. Even though the Babadook is the embodiment of grief and depression: the kid, though annoying, really loves his mother and is trying to save her from the "babadook" because he wants his mother to be happy and not get consumed by the "babadook."
The neighbor was the main loving one that actually cared about Amelia and Samuel and tried to give her support and is a grandmotherly figure.
The more you dive into it, it's actually really sad. And little Ruby and Claire... Ruby deserved that broken nose as she was a little shit
Main actress has the best face and mannerisms for unhinged roles; she was Vermeer’s wife in Girl With A Pearl Earring.
This movie does excellent portrayal of depression and its consequences that will haunt humanity for eternity
Shut up bot
Just wanna point out the Kubler-Ross model was developed while studying terminally ill patients (and their close loved ones) about their processing their impending death. It doesn't always cover grief *after* the fact
I loved the “okay byeee, the internet is over now” bit. It was too good 😂
Man I been waiting for you to cover the Babadook and you finally did! Thank you CZ 🙏🏻
This is not where I expected to see someone explain that the Kubler-Ross Grief Model isn’t linear… but I’m glad that was added in. For anyone grieving, please look into the Tasks of Mourning. That’s the more prominent model used nowadays, and be kind to yourself!
I swear to God I remember watching this movie so badly when I was a kid growing up and I never understood the monster the child or the story of the rifle how this all happened but thanks to you were going to know it all
The ending is realistic. We may take our problems and circumstances with us to the grave. But attitude and perspective CAN make a difference. It won't absolutely get rid of our problems---but we have something our problems don't have: The Ability to Adapt, to come back from the darkness stronger than ever!
The grief cycle does not happen in any particular order, nor is it linear because you can go back and forth between stages. After I lost my dad my psychiatrist explained that thinking the stages go in order is a common misconception.
Same. I found that out myself after the sudden loss of my mother. When I thought I had finally accepted it (keyword; thought), I would dream she was alive again and if I wanted to make sure she didn't go back to being gone I could never say, imply or even think "wait, you're gone" cause then it would make it true.
Yeah, very much like the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, but I guess that's my subconsciousness stuck in bargaining, mixed with depression forming guilt.
I don't think I've had that dream for a while now, but in my waking life I still feel like I'm picking up the pieces.
WAIT BABAROGA SOUNDS SO MUCH COOLER. WHY DIDNT THEY KEEP THAT?
It's a popular story parents use to scare kids here in the Balkans. I had nightmares about that thing lol.
@deadmeat and the golden chainsaw for the best kill goes to… 😂😂 love both you and deadmeat so so so much!!! So much entertainment and education all rolled into one!
The tie is a stroke of genius (reference to The Shining). Can CZ’s world get any better? Excellent on every level and definitely eye candy as well
There is an incredible amount of relatability to the grief, anger and desperation. It adds so much depth to the characters. As you said there are familiar filmmaking techniques but I think the characters make this one special. I really love all your horror histories as I find them so fascinating and you present them with such personality. This one though was particularly good.
Australia is proving itself to be a country that pumps out top tier horror cinema. This film, Wolf Creek 1 and 2 and Talk to Me are awesome.
The Babadook is a now a gay icon.
What?
@@mrbloodyhyphen-5657he's a gay icon from a meme
😮💨
God 🙏 help the poor lost souls (those who claim the stated or insist on it) with nothing to do with their existence than make everything modern 😂😂😂😂
They were trying to do the same with Pennywise but thankfully it never latched on.
Yikes…I’m going to be honest never saw this film and looking at my situation, I wasn’t ready. Tia breakdown, what the director did…..I am now facing (and properly mourning) the loss of my marriage. When tings appended I did go to therapy but this (the film ) was right up my alley. Being a single parent is not easy, at all, and I encourage anyone going though this to just talk to someone. Grief is…..hard. You can do this.
I myself very much love the babadook and , after losing my mom, even more so because it’s so very true . The grief never goes away. Some days are better and it seems to hide away and other days it just looms over you .
Just as a personal breakdown for the ending, the Babadook representing grief and still giving it food since it isn’t truly defeated, is how we deal with grief.
If we let it fester and grow and never confront it it gets worse but even after we face it and get control, we are still mourning. We don’t forget the sadness or the pain, we just learn to live with it, and tend to it from time to time when we need to.
The Babodook was the first film that both terrified me and made me cry. The babadook was the personification of her grief at the gruesome, visceral death of her husband sitting right next to her in a car crash. Repressing the pain was killing her and splitting her personality. Her son could see it changing her and was scared of her "other" self. She began to resent her son because she reminded her of his dad so her "other" self wrote the children's book to bring him into her nightmare. But eventually she beat it and confined it someplace manageable so she could move on and be happy again. The babadook is such a perfect metaphor for unbearable pain and grief. The message is that it can't be killed or repressed, only confronted and contained. That's so sad and so true.
Sam is 3½ ft of pure Based Gigachad energy, he skips stuffed animals and goes straight to homemade crossbows
Loved the Whang shoutout! Dunno why, but it always makes me happy to find out creators that I like are in contact (or at least know of) each other.
Another great video! Such a good movie. My CZsWorld shirt will be delivered in a couple days!
On top of your great analysis of many horror movie characters, you also have a great sense of humor. I was not expecting the “welcome to the kill count” clip, classic horror comedy imo
I think he sneak in James in his videos couple of times, but I agree this one was so well timed joke.
man i've never once watched the full movie, i always get like 30 minutes in and cant because its so damn spoopy, i dont understand how someone can be so good at writing, because it hits me on both an intellectual level and in my feelers
Found your channel by chance and am ADDICTED 😂 I love horror, and you're very humorous and eloquent during your videos 🖤🖤 thank you for your time and efforts!
I also think the scene where they're at the cousin's birthday party shows that she's not taking care of herself. Her grief and depression is causing her to not value self-care which is very common. It doesn't just show that she doesn't have time but that she doesn't value her own self worth. It's not just the makeup but the way she dresses and puts her hair up is very low effort attire because it's what's easiest.
i don't think this movie reinvented the genre, it just did its familiar themes with skill and care and the story was pretty well written even though it was predictable.
Honestly I don't care about predictability at this point because it's such an easy nitpick, what truly matters is how well you tell the story, not how *surprising* it is.
@@Treeeee2008 I agree 100% I wasn't annoyed by it being predictable because it was still well done with its moving parts
Loved this video. A lot of people seem to misinterpret the fact that there’s subtext and metaphors as the events not taking place or just being a hallucination, but everything shown in the film right up to the ending indicates otherwise. Everything from the ending with the works to the book’s very existence shows that this monster is tangible and real, hell, even on a metaphorical level it makes sense for it to be real- why make a horror movie representation of real problems if the problems aren’t even physically present in the film’s world? It sort of undermines the entire subtext when you think about it. The series of events did happen, the movie was just made with the intention of it also serving as a representation of grief.
Yeah there's some common tropes but the emotional storyline with characters we cared about, the deterioration and terror watching the mother slowly fall, it's something a lot of horror movies just haven't done, they haven't made us care about anyone with one dimension characters etc. This and Hereditary are awesome in my opinion
this is crazy. i was going to comment on your next recent video about your lack of coverage of Babadook. very nice timing.
I literally just finished watching a couple of your other videos cz, THANK YOU I’ve been stuck rewatching
Amelia abuses her son and kills his dog and gets a redemption arc, meanwhile, Jack is possessed by demons and fueled with the stress of protecting his son and he freezes to death?
Wow! Very interesting video! It made me want to revisit The Babadook.
The Babadook was one of the first movies that motivated me to explore the horror genre more.
I took the bowl of worms as a means to keep the babadook (her grief) small in size as worms eat away at dead things…this is her accepting her husband is gone 🤷♂️ love your channel man, one of the best horror channels on the youtubes! 🤘
im gonna subscribe to this guy got me rolling out my bed
Thank you for keeping the scares alive year round! One of my favorite channels
I was literally looking through your channel yesterday for a video about the babadook, perfect timing!
LOVED the "Kill Count" reference! Love that channel too!
I’ve been waiting for this for so long!!♥️ Thank you! 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Damn, CZs has been working out! You can see that bicep vein popping, getting buff, are we? Keep up the good work man, love it as always
Yo man I just wanted to say I really love this channel for real you given all the history tours horror Flix I really hope that you make more Horror history in time
If I’ve said it before, I’ve said it a million times, but Horror History is the best content online. The research and effort he puts into his work is fantastic! Thank you Zac! You’re the best! 😂❤
I've lived with depression for almost 14 years. I think I was finally starting to come to terms with the death of my Nan. Then the neighbours dog attacked my 14 year old cat. She didn't survive in March 7 2020. It was a week before my semester at uni. I was a wreck and went back to feeling numb and lost all motivation to do my assignmernts. I had trouble before that but had always been able to force myself to do. It become all the harder after Clare died.
The deadline of an assignment almost wasn't enough to get me to do my assignments. Thankfully I never stopped writing but in October/November of 2020 I found I legitmately couldn't start writing an assignment for histroy. A subject I love. I decided to take a break for a little while. After Claire died I would have a bunny (stotry idea) pop into my head every now and then with a vivid idea.
A girl in bed being woken by meowing a the door, she opens the door to find a ghost cat, the cat comes in and jumps onto the kitchen counte.
It was the same idea again and again but I couldn't write it down. I wasn't ready to write it down yet. The idea kept popping into my head every now and then at random. Then last year I watched Sell Your Haunted House, true I had to use a review site to understand what was going on in the episode (and got gutpunched twice by an episode, first when I watched it and half understood what was going on.
Then again after reading the episode review). It was a little painful and I got scared when my toothbrush started buzzing despite the battery being dead. I kept watching, the lights in my apartment turned on and the curtains to the balcony closed. I felt like I needed to continue watching it. I ended up crying, it one of the few shows that can make me more than tear up.
I felt better after that and could finally write the Ghost Cat story around two years later after her death. I've written the start but haven't written anything else. I'll still miss her. She was the last little bit of my childhood. She walked into my life in December of 2007 (I was 8), Mum said I could keep her if she was still there when we got back from our family trip, and walked back out in March 2020. I moved out of home three months later on June 15th at 21.
I'm glad I moved out when I did. I needed to move out. I'll always miss her. I've lived with my Babadook for a long time. Writing is my way of dealing with it.
I don't know you, but I hope you're doing well now. All the best.
@@chaos_is_my_guilty_pleasure Some days are better than other. Sometimes I dont have the energy to get anything done or have the motivation to get thing done. The motivation thing is very much effecting me.
@@yamiatemyugi I understand. There can be days when you feel almost you again and others when you can barely force yourself off the bed. But it does get better. For me, I just distract my turbulent feelings with things I like to do. It's not exactly the healthiest coping mechanism, but it works.
@@yamiatemyugi Anyway, I do hope things get better for you. If it's any comfort, I like to write as well :)
The son didn't say "Do you wanna die" to his mom as if to punk her. He said it like he can't protect her from the Babadook if she takes his homemade weapons. 😊
I'm always so happy when you upload new content! Also, respectfully, you look like you have put on muscle! I hope you are achieving your goals 😊
We all have a Babadook in our lives.
Dude that’s messed up with the kill count clip 😂
It really was........I'm still laughing 😂😂😂
I actually think that Babadook is quite a fitting name for the film. It’s an odd name, somewhat uncanny, but it also fits the whole introduction of it in a children’s story book. Sounds like it could be the fixture of a nursery rhyme.
I just watched pennywises video, and this narrator has become so jacked since then
Awesome video man
Loved this breakdown :)
Thank you so much for your content. I am too scared to watch horror films myself and I don't like jumpscares and graphic scenes. However i am fascinated by the stories, I used to read the summaries on the wikipedia pages.
Your channel with the detailed summaries mixed with jokes to make it lighter is perfect for me to enjoy those stories.
Why does this remind me of the game, “The Man From The Window.”? They both have books that summon them, which show what to do about them, and the protagonist’s are both mothers and sons. The antagonists also knock three times except, the babadook knocks in a unknown location whilst the man from the window knocks on obviously, the window.
YES ANOTHER VIDEOOO, LETS GOOOO!!!
Please do Terrifier, I've been recently watching your videos and started to go back liking horrors movies again. Your commentary is super great, and your humor is also super great. Love your videos
I love your deeply thought out, analytical reviews of horror ,they give extra depth and lore to movies I just don't have the patience to rewatch .
that said though - I believe that monsters are *real* in the universe of their movie and "logic-ing" them away devalues them quite a bit
We got a Dad Meat reference and a Whang! reference in this one... Nice 👍
Grieving parents often uses substances to cope. The babadook can be the mom inebriated. That how I took it.
In fact your story. Grieving shouldn’t lead to that kind of behavior and state of psychosis is very common
Listening to your explanation makes it a much easier movie to watch and swallow. Its almost sweet in the end. Learning to live with something like grief.
hes not threatening her saying "do you want to die" hes frustrated she isnt taking him seriously
I love this film! Genuinely one of the only films to make me uneasy or nervous upon first watch.
If I’m being honest I thought you covered this before, but I’m glad you aren’t cos we got this amazing video
Their house symbolizes her mind, how the babadook/grief slowly festers and consume it, how she shuts herself off from the rest of the world, from others and from reality. How her son keeps poking holes in her delusion and coping mechanisms.
When she finally takes control of her own mind and life, chooses her kid over the dead father, chooses the present over the past finally gives her grief a place in her mind, not denying its existence but learning to live with it and grow past it as you are supposed to do.
idk whether to thank you for leaving out the two most terrifying moments in your review or not, but here they are with my own takes:
1. Amelia watching TV sees a news report, just a hallucination really, that is the story of a mother who murders her child and then kills herself. We then see Amelia sitting in a window IN the hallucinated news segment, with an absolutely demented look on her face. It's horrifying, still freaks me out. This segment is happening during her descent into depression and just before she "lets it in" to possess her. She feels horrible when she's shocked by the waking nightmare of her having done this, which shows she does genuinely care for him and feels guilty about her subconscious desire to be rid of him, the guilt of killing him would have driven her to suicide too just as the babadook predicted and clearly is the "her" she sees in the vision, taunting her with this twisted premonition. *shiver* The fact that this isn't a jumpscare and isn't accompanied even by any music makes it that much more disturbing.
2. Fully possessed, Amelia is tied on the floor in the basement struggling to be free and completely overtaken by grief wanting to end her suffering by doing away with Samuel... she writhes and twists and her face contorts in rage. Her eyes look black, cold and severe and she goes beet red, almost smiling through gritted teeth as she frees herself and grabs him and begins to choke him. It's a moment of pure homicidal bliss and the camera freezes her face in the moment. her eyes widen and features sharpen as she strains herself.. thankfully she relents when he STILL manages to show her affection and that he knows it isn't her fault, and she's able to reject the monster and spew out bile signifying her purging herself of the babadook's possession.
Those faces Essie makes are so good, she's stunning in that movie.
I want a Czsworld and Dead Meat Collab!!!! Is it too much too ask?
Ditto
You should definitely do the thing movies explained. There is a lot of interesting stuff going on in those movies and it is pretty good
This movie made me cry bro, i wasnt scared i just understood how the mother felt
Love your content man! Helps me everyday.
Someone needs to make a stop motion animated version of this movie!
I finally found the why can’t you be normal meme 😂
Really well analysed and presented!
I remember hearing about this in a video and i swear i couldn't sleep without checking around
I’ve been waiting for this video