Summary: The Babadook

The Babadook
Samuel is the child character within the film, he has the visuals of a childs drawing in the real world, but when we take a look at Samuels life at school and how he gets on with the teachers, the teachers say that Samuel has bad behavioral problems and label him as one of the naughty children. This problem is not dealt with further as it is left at that, nobody ever suspected that the problem could be linked to something much worse.
Samuel just wants to protect his mother from the creatures he learns about in the books that he reads, in order to do this he builds weapons such as a crossbow and catapult, which then gets him kicked out of school.
The thought of the monsters become overwhelming and then keep Samuel up at night, to the point that he runs into his mothers room for safety, but he is in such a panic, that his mother has to pull him off of her just to get her personal space back.
Then we take a look at Samuels mother, Amelia.
Amelia is a single mother and it is made visible from the start of the film that she is having a battle trying to keep her life together along with Samuels.
Amelia loves Samuel, but being a single parent is hard enough, but she also then has to deal with Samuels bad behavior and all of the

The book then tells the tale of a monster that tears children to shreds, this frightens Samuel and he then becomes obsessed with protecting himself and his mother from this monster. The book also starts to bother Amelia, so she destroys the book, but after she destroys it, it just keeps coming back as it keeps on turning up in the house, but every time it turns up, it includes newer sections, such as a mother slitting her own throat. To add to the tension of the film, soon the entire household is engulfed by the voice of “The Babadook” leading from the closests to Amelias own