It might seem strange to recommend a horror movie as
something that every parent should see and pay close attention to, but The Babadook, the feature debut from
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent, is a treatise on the aspects of parenting
that people tend not to talk about. It is a sort of psychological horror film
clearly inspired by and borrowing from Nosferatu
as equally as The Exorcist, Halloween,
and even A
Nightmare on Elm Street.
