Night Owl Cinema
THE BABADOOK
Friday, March 8th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis)
is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6 year-old,
Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel’s dreams are
plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both.
When a disturbing storybook called ‘The Babadook’ turns up
at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he’s been
dreaming about. His hallucinations spiral out of control, he becomes more
unpredictable and violent. Amelia, genuinely frightened by her son’s behavior,
is forced to medicate him. But when Amelia begins to see glimpses of a sinister
presence all around her, it slowly dawns on her that the thing Samuel has been
warning her about may be real. (Australia,
2014, 94 mins, R, English | Dir. Jennifer Kent)