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We're continuing our month of movie monsters with a look at Jennifer Kent's 2014 cult classic The Babadook!

Join in as we discuss the movie's dismal emotions and colors, its outsized impact compared to its tiny box office, the movie's varying levels of Australian-ness, and Sam's "bad kid" status.

Plus: How did the Babadook become a queer icon? Is this monster a murderer? What is Acorn TV? And, most critically, what do the worms represent?

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Next week: Leprechaun (1993)

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Key sources and links for this episode:

• "How Jennifer Kent Made The Babadook" (SBS Australia)
• "Homespun Horror: The Making of The Babadook" (FilmInk)
• "The Babadook: 'I Wanted to Talk about the Need to Face Darkness in Ourselves'" (The Guardian)
• "Boogeyman Nights: The Story behind this Year's Horror Hit The Babadook" (Rolling Stone)
• The Babadook Kickstarter Page (includes Kent's earlier short film Monster)
• "How The Babadook became the LGBTQ Icon We Didn't Know We Needed" (Vox)
• "The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix" (The Ringer)
• "The True Story behind the Greatest Halloween Tweet of All Time" (Intelligencer)
• "Weapons is Why We Go to the Movies" (The Big Picture)
• The Babadook published picture book