
The Babadook: when allegory meets expressionism in a therapeutic horror classic.
“I’ll wager with you. I’ll make a bet. The more you deny, the stronger I get. You start to change when I get in, The

“I’ll wager with you. I’ll make a bet. The more you deny, the stronger I get. You start to change when I get in, The

“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to

“Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman’s right to an abortion, which I always thought was

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft.

“Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.” -Chuck Jones Farce is one of the most difficult, challenging forms

“Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else.” – Eudora Welty. Using Setting

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway. Storytelling doesn’t

“It all depends on how we look at things and not how they are in themselves.” -Carl Jung In Storytelling, The Audience Has a Perspective,

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” -Roger “Verbal” Kint, The Usual Suspects, Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie.