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Sci-Fi & Squeam

26 Jul 2014

Talking The Babadook with Jen Kent and Essie Davis.

Society & Culture, TV & Film

Sonja The Squeamer spoke to both Director Jennifer Kent and actress Essie Davis of the film that is helping to change the way Australian movie goers see locally made horror films….it’s called……… The Babadook !

The Babadook website

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The Babadook has been drumming up plenty of overseas audiences, and great acclaim from reviewers and audiences alike, and it’s release in Oz has been remarkable also for this female made and driven genre movie…

The Babadook  playing in Melbourne

The Guardian article

“It is to my advantage that there are so few of us [female filmmakers], and that Hollywood has kindly got with the program, and realises that there needs to be more of us,” she says, with the same no-nonsense attitude that kept The Babadook on track, even when screen agencies and financiers baulked at the thought of bankrolling a horror film out of Australia.’  Jen Kent, director of The Babadook.

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