The main child is verbally abused and threatened by his mother. She also forgets to feed him and at one point masturbates with him close by though he’s asleep it’s still uncomfortable.
There is no self harm type cutting in the movie. However, in one scene there is a moving flip up book with a drawing of the main character cutting her own throat with a big knife and blood spills out. The actual character carries the same knife at certain parts of the movie but she does not cut herself or anyone else with it.
Amelia hallucatinates a bloody, dead Samuel on the couch beside her while she's holding a kitchen knife. She snaps out of it pretty quickly but it's an upsetting visual.
This category is not for animals. It is for non-humans, like Johnny-5 in Short Circuit, Wall-E, or the funny fire hydrant grip machine from Iron Man. Based on the category criteria, there should be 100% NO votes. There are no non-human characters in this movie, with the exception of the monster, and it is arguable if it even exists or if it is just in the characters’ heads.
The dad is dead since before the film started, and the main character hallucinates about him several times, including a scene where his head gets sliced in two.
There’s a scene where the mom is lying in bed and the son jumps into bed with her. It’s startling. Another scene, the mom is lying in bed and The Babadook is crawling on the ceiling.
The main character's child is apparently neurodivergent, and there are scenes where she shames him for "not being normal". In other scenes, she is mentally abusive towards the child but it is unrelated to his behavior or neurodivergency.
While not explicitly stated in the film, Samuel displays numerous autistic traits and is seen as autistic by lots of viewers and fans of the series. This could be upsetting to some because he's also described as having "severe behavioral problems" and is neglected due to his symptoms.
There is a scene in which a moving flip up book shows a picture of the main character cutting her own throat and blood spills out. The picture is drawn so it's a bit childish but very creepy and jarring. The character herself does not actually commit suicide (though she may have threatened to do it, I don't remember).
The mother character speaks in a verbally abusive and obscene way to her child late in the movie. Without spoiling too much, this is linked to the plot, and indicates how dire the situation has become.
Not a baby per se, but the main character's child cries, screams, and throws fits/meltdowns at great length throughout the movie, which someone who is triggered by those types of sounds may find disturbing.
The father dies in a car crash before the events of the movie, and flashbacks are shown. There's also a scene about 54 minutes in where the mother crashes into another driver, but nobody is hurt.