The Babadook
Movie • 2014 • Drama Report
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annikavankoevering
FOR ANYONE WHO DOESNT WANT TO WATCH THE DEATH OF THE DOG. Dont watch from 1:09:20-1:11:20.
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BumbleBree
The main character (presumed possessed) chases and picks up her pet dog and snaps its neck
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tawd
There's a scene where bugs infiltrate her kitchen through a crack in the wall. Her son also collects bugs preserved in glass.
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RoseTheHat
Yes. The dog dies and you can see his body buried in the yard at the end.
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RoseTheHat
Yes. The mom, Amelia kills her dog.
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Didn't notice any spiders (I'm arachnophobic), just a lot of cockroaches.
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echoevemorrow
The mother repeatedly attempts to convince her son that all of the strange goings on is all in his head.
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elsilverstein
The family is stalked by the Babadook.
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clarkekent
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.
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Spreiring
Abuse of prescription drugs throughout
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ansch
At around 1:15:00 the mom is tied down on the ground with ropes
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simon
At one point, the mother pulls out one of her teeth.
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ToasterGnome
No but a head gets cut in half
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kellisbestie
At one point the mother was literally tied down. Also, pretty much this entire thing is torture from the Babadook.
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user18247
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.
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ricetotherescue
Due to strangulation.
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Jesi May
A child's nose is broken in two places at the hands of another child. They require surgery to repair it, but it is otherwise non-life-threatening.
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RoseTheHat
At one point, the son, Samuel has a convulsion in the car.
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BiliousBecca
Mother gets tripped and stumbles down the stairs. Not fully falling
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Jesi May
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.
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Rachel Smith
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.
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echoevemorrow
Technically a book belonging to a child is destroyed.
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elsilverstein
There’s an unsettling bathtub scene with the mother and the son. Everyone is dressed and nothing is overtly sexual.
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mlwrt96
not exactly, but in emotionally distressed states the protagonist repeatedly hallucinates her dead husband very vividly.
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RoseTheHat
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.
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amycochran134
At a children’s birthday party, they hire a mime/clown. Only on screen a few seconds and is kind to the children.
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RoseTheHat
Some say that the mom is possessed by The Babadook towards the end of the film, but in reality, she is just suffering from mental illness.
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KatoMiller
Samuel wets himself when his possessed mother kicks in the door.
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sheeriocheerio
after the babadook leaves the mothers body, she vomits. this is toward the end of the movie, but its shown onscreen
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Babsidi
There are scenes in the dementia ward of a nursing facility.
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Greenspace01
No, but there are scenes in a nursing home, residential aged care, with lots of frail aged people.
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omerdog
More Panic than anxiety maybe.
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2spirit
The mother has flashback
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user18247
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).
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DogkinTrash
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.
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RoseTheHat
The book shows the mom slitting her throat, but she never does it. She does however, rip out one of her teeth.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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avernos
there are a few points where the electricity flickers on and off, creating a flashing light effect, but there is no actual strobing.
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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.
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kellisbestie
Near the end, it is in the Babadook's point of view, and there is a very shaky, nasueating camera view. Not for long, though.
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tonecameg
Babadook survives.
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glitterpop95
A neurodivergent child is verbally abused.
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bookcat2002
A woman is shown to be masturbating, but there is no nudity.
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mayfrogs
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.
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chancefields113
Someone almost got hit by a car
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RoseTheHat
Yes there is gore. The mom pulls out one of her teeth which is a bloody scene. The son also stabs the mom.
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