I'm Salutations, welcome to Pod Mortem.

I'm Renee Hunter Vasquez, joined as always by my co-host, my husband, and my brother.

Hi, I'm John Paul Vasquez.

Hi, I'm Travis Hunter.

This week, we're recording live from an awkward birthday party discussing the 2014 supernatural

horror film, The Babadook.

The Babadook was written and directed by Jennifer Kent based off of her short film, Monster.

In this debut film, Kent blends themes of grief with genuinely unique scares.

We are also introduced to the iconic monster, The Babadook himself.

This film received both critical and commercial acclaim.

The Babadook was recommended to us by Friend of the Show at Destroyer 677 on Twitter.

It also beat out three other films in our March Patreon poll. Thank you to all of

our patrons who participated and voted. And if you want to help us decide, join us over on the Patreon.

So what did you guys think about the Babadook the first time you saw it? I think we watched this

together with my sister, one of my little sisters. Yes, with Adrian. Yeah, I always forget. I'm sorry. I know you do. I did like it when I first seen it, and I think I watched it one other time after that, but watching it for the show, I don't... I mean, it's still good, but it wasn't as good as I remember. But, I mean, it's all right. It's not bad. It's not a bad movie. Right. I think I agree 100%. I remember watching it for the first time. I think I watched it with our parents. Right. And I loved it. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I think it was the, like you said in your intro, the marriage of grief with genuine scares. Right. And they're so unique. Yeah. I've never seen anything like this before. Some of them. Some of them. There are aspects in this film that I've never seen in any other film, though. I don't want to take away from the originality of it. Right, right. Because there is, definitely. Oh, no, yeah. But rewatching it this time for the show, I think, I don't know, maybe it's just a matter of, I saw this review on Letterbox, actually, that I couldn't get out of my head after I watched it. And they say maybe this is the kind of movie you only watch once. Huh. And, you know.

That maybe.

Yeah.

I think that's what, you know what it reminds me of exactly is what you said when we

were talking about it follows.

Right.

You think the film is so, so good, but you're mad at it for not being great. Yeah. And I think that's how I felt

because this had everything going for it to be great. There are still aspects I love a lot,

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