The Babadook: The Archive

A modern masterpiece.

• The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Babadook
• Rulebook Casefile: Jennifer Kent vs. the Naysayers
• Straying from the Party Line: The Selfless and Self-Less Heroine of The Babadook
• Straying from the Party Line: The Babadook vs. Genre Expectations
• Rulebook Casefile: The Progress of the Problem in the Opening of The Babadook
• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Should a Monsters Ever Meet Its Metaphor?

Here's a question that got cut that I miss (I frequently regret cutting this question):
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Are unrealistic genre-specific elements a big metaphor for a more common experience (not how life really is, but how life really feels)?

Very much so.  The Babadook = The Dada Book.