Tag: The Babadook
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ANALYSIS: Mommy’s Little Monsters – Motherhood in Horror
This Mother’s Day, Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana unpacks the darker side of motherhood… There is very little else in the entirety of a person’s life that is as frightening as reproducing, giving birth to and raising a tiny human whose survival instinct – unlike that of most animals – doesn’t kick in properly until their late teens. […]
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ANALYSIS: “Baby-dook-dook…”: THE BABADOOK and Postpartum Depression
This thing had spent months inside of me, underneath my skin, parasitically living off me, and in a fit of guttural screams, blood and body parts it burst forth into this world. It may have left my body, but it won’t leave me, following me around wherever I go. It still clings to me, even […]