The Babadook Turns 10, Plus An Interview With Writer/Director Jennifer Kent
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On the September 20, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about Jennifer Kent’s 2014 movie The Babadook, and we’ll present an interview with Jennifer Kent.
In Our Feature Presentation: 'The Babadook' Review: A Hellishly Intense Vision Of Horror And Grief
- The Babadook at 10
- Jennifer Kent interview
- Katie Dippold’s Babadook tweet
- The Babadook is a gay icon
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily today's Friday September 20th |
| 0:03.4 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about |
| 0:06.7 | Jennifer Kent's 2014 movie The Babaduke and we'll present an interview with |
| 0:11.0 | Jennifer Kent. My name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at |
| 0:13.9 | slash film dot com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor B.J. |
| 0:17.1 | Colangelo. Hi, hi, hi yeah. All right, B.J. So the Babaduk is |
| 0:21.8 | celebrating its 10th anniversary. It is back in theaters. So if you're listening to this soon after the episode goes up, you have a chance to see this movie in a theater. |
| 0:32.6 | September 19th through the 22nd of 2024 |
| 0:36.1 | is the theatrical run for this re-release. |
| 0:39.0 | I was really planning to see this movie in a theater |
| 0:41.1 | because I have never seen it before and unfortunately I |
| 0:45.3 | couldn't get to do that because I'm going on vacation next week so this is part of |
| 0:49.3 | an announcement that I want to make here that next week the podcast feed will go dark just for a week and then I'll be back I think the following Monday so just wanted to let everybody know up top but yeah just sort of scrambling and preparing for vacation stuff and doing a bunch of work to make up for that and trying to get all that sorted means that I didn't have time to go out and actually see this in the theater. |
| 1:12.6 | The good news is it's also streaming on Netflix, |
| 1:14.7 | so that's how I finally watch this movie. |
| 1:16.8 | And before we get into it, B.J, I was curious |
| 1:19.2 | what your relationship is to this film. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm sure you saw it a decade ago when it came out but is this one that you've |
| 1:24.4 | returned to a bunch or what did you think about it then what do you think about it now? |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah so I did see it when it first came out and I'm honestly shocked that you somehow missed it because it was such like a phenomenon when it came out because people couldn't stop talking about it. |
| 1:38.3 | It definitely had this reputation of like scariest movie of the year all of like the typical you know horror figures people look to for taste like Stephen King they were like oh my God this movie is so scary so of course I had to see it and it was very effective I loved it. I thought Jennifer Kent was going to be ushering in this like huge wave of women directed horror films because that was also a big talking point at the time. |
| 2:01.0 | So that was very exciting to me. And then I didn't revisit it for a little bit until about |
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