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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sapphicswords
The dog dies in the movie, but there is no reports of actual animal abuse on set.
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RoseTheHat
Yes. The mom, Amelia kills her dog.
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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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RoseTheHat
Yes. The dog dies and you can see his body buried in the yard at the end.
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Didn't notice any spiders (I'm arachnophobic), just a lot of cockroaches.
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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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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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Afion
The mum gives her son tranquilizers
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ansch
At around 1:15:00 the mom is tied down on the ground with ropes
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ToasterGnome
No but a head gets cut in half
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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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DominickCaton
Yes. The Babadook wedges his body through Amelia’s spine, of which, we hear her flesh, see pupils dilating, etc.
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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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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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simon
At one point, the mother pulls out one of her teeth.
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BiliousBecca
Mother gets tripped and stumbles down the stairs. Not fully falling
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RoseTheHat
At one point, the son, Samuel has a convulsion in the car.
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ricetotherescue
Due to strangulation.
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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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Afion
The dog dies
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echoevemorrow
Technically a book belonging to a child is destroyed.
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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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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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mlwrt96
not exactly, but in emotionally distressed states the protagonist repeatedly hallucinates her dead husband very vividly.
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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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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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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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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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2spirit
The mother has flashback
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omerdog
More Panic than anxiety maybe.
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Afion
There is a scene where the mum is hiding under the covers when the Babadook's nearby, which might be claustrophobic for some people
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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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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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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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nervousnellie
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.
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Afion
However it's referenced that the mum's partner dies when they are both in a car crash on the way to hospital to give birth to their son
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tonecameg
Babadook survives.
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glitterpop95
A neurodivergent child is verbally abused.
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Afion
The mum and her young son cuddle in bed together when he can't sleep on his own, which could be potentially triggering
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bookcat2002
A woman is shown to be masturbating, but there is no nudity.
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Afion
The neighbour has Parkinson's
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Afion
The mum works on a dementia ward, but there's only a brief interaction with a patient with dementia
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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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