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The Babadook

August 2022

  • Casey Affleck in A Ghost Story, directed by David Lowry.

    I called it ‘post-horror’ – and now I’ve created a monster

    When I coined the term ‘post-horror’, gore fans showered me with abuse. Now it has been adopted by a festival celebrating the films that pushed the boundaries of cinematic terror

October 2021

  • Can Jermaine Jenas get through to a troll in a face-to-face meeting?

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Jermaine Jenas hunts the football trolls

    The former Spurs player turned broadcaster examines the racial abuse of footballers. Plus: the Hairy Bikers head north. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2019

  • The Babadook, (M) Sweet Country, (R) Animal Kingdom

    From Animal Kingdom to The Babadook: the best Australian films of the decade

    Guardian Australia’s film critic Luke Buckmaster surveys the past 10 years and finds thrillingly varied depictions of Australian life

August 2019

  • Baykali Ganambarr as Billy and Aisling Franciosi as Clare in Jennifer Kent’s 2019 film The Nightingale

    The Nightingale review – ambitious, urgent and necessarily brutal. But who is it for?

    Jennifer Kent is an extraordinary film-maker, but by falsely equivocating two vastly different experiences, she steps – misguidedly – into a minefield

May 2019

  • The Nightingale: watch the trailer for the Babadook director's brutal new film – video

    Described by the Guardian as ‘a particularly brutal serving of Tasmanian gothic’, the second film by Australian director Jennifer Kent is set in 1825 Van Diemen’s Land

September 2018

  • The Nightingale, Hotel Mumbai and At Eternity’s Gate.

    From The Nightingale to Hotel Mumbai: Adelaide film festival launches biggest program yet

    From The Babadook director Jennifer Kent’s new thriller to Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh, here are 10 must-sees on this year’s program

June 2018

  • "Hereditary" film trailer<br>27-4-2018 "Hereditary" film trailer Pictured: Toni Collette PLANET PHOTOS www.planetphotos.co.uk info@planetphotos.co.uk +44 (0)20 8883 1438

    Ranked
    The scariest horror films ever – ranked!

    Occult chiller Hereditary is the latest in a proud line of big-screen blood-curdlers. Our critic picks his 25 most terrifying

August 2017

  • Portraits, SXSW Festival, Austin, Texas, America - 13 Mar 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Buckner/Variety/REX/Shutterstock (5613149a) Jason Blum Portraits, SXSW Festival, Austin, Texas, America - 13 Mar 2016 Producer Jason Blum of "In A Valley Of Violence"

    Get Out's Jason Blum: 'Australia has exported some of the great genre film-makers of our time'

    His production house has become one of Hollywood’s biggest success stories – but Jason Blum predicts the future of genre film-making is in Australia

June 2017

  • The Babadook holding a rainbow pride flag in an image tweeted out by Massachusetts attorney-general Maura Healey

    The Babadook: how the horror movie monster became a gay icon

    Top-hatted ghoul has been hailed as LGBT figure in corners of social media after it was jokingly floated on Tumblr that he was gay

March 2017

  • Left to right: Ana Lily Amirpour, Julia Ducournau, Alice Lowe, Jennifer Kent and Karyn Kusama. Photographs by Getty, WireImage, Aurelie Lamachere/Rex, Linda Nylind for the Observer

    The female directors bringing new blood to horror films

    Women are sinking their teeth ever deeper into horror. We chart their rise and talk to directors Ana Lily Amirpour, Julia Ducournau and Karyn Kusama

January 2017

  • Jeremy Sims, Asher Keddie, Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce film scenes for Flammable Children at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast.

    Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce reunite – and nine other Australian films to watch in 2017

    From a Babadook follow-up, to documentaries about Michael Hutchence and JonBenét Ramsey, here are the films we’re most looking forward to

May 2016

  • Jennifer Kent

    After The Babadook: Jennifer Kent's new film tackles Australia's violent colonial history

    Australian writer-director says of The Nightingale, the first film after her thrilling debut, ‘It’s certainly not a horror film but it’s a pretty horrific world’

October 2015

  • Luke Buckmaster

    Guardian Australia film club
    Australian cinema's lost wave: the renaissance nobody's noticed

    Luke Buckmaster
    Since 2005, the Australian film industry has been making movies up there with any period in its history including the New Wave of the 70s and 80s

August 2015

  • Child support worries … Paul Rudd as Ant-Man.

    Film blog
    Blockbusters, bad dads and super-unrealistic mums

    This year’s biggest films are populated by bad fathers transformed into superheroes to save their imperilled children, while mothers are either taken for granted or psychotic … have we learned nothing since Mrs Doubtfire?

July 2015

  • The Suicide Theory

    Desperately seeking distribution: new Aussie hit thriller not available at home

  • Luke Buckmaster

    Let's fight harder to keep first-time Australian film-makers at home

    Luke Buckmaster

May 2015

  • don watson

    Australia books blog
    Don Watson's The Bush wins top prizes at NSW premier's literary awards

    Watson picks up book of the year and the award for non-fiction while Mark Henshaw’s The Snow Kimono wins for best fiction and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook takes top accolade for scriptwriting

February 2015

  • Actor Essie Davis on the red carpet at the AACTA awards.

    Essie Davis on The Babadook: people made masks of me for Halloween

    The star of word-of-mouth Australian horror flick on its Oscars ‘snub’, the film’s famous fans and losing her voice for an 11-second long scream

January 2015

  • epa04592956 Australian actor David Gulpilil arrives for the AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Awards 2015 held at the Star Event Centre in Sydney, Australia, 29 January 2015. EPA/NIKKI SHORT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

    Film blog
    Aactas 2015: The Water Diviner and The Babadook tie, but at least they're Aussie

  • Geoffrey Rush 2015 Aactas

    Aacta awards 2015: red carpet highlights - video

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