From its development to execution, here's how The Babadook became one of the most frightening movies in recent memory.

IFC Films is eager to do its part to help the exhibition community recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as the indie distributor will make roughly 200 library titles available free of charge to indie theaters once they reopen, including Jennifer Kent's 2014 horror-thriller The Babadook. To be clear, theater patrons will still have to purchase tickets to these screenings, but the theaters themselves won't have to split ticket sales with IFC Films, which won't charge exhibitors for film rentals. The initiative has been dubbed "The Indie Theater Revival Project," and comes as IFC …

The Babadook had a lot of allegories, and the ending invited audiences to explore the deeper meaning behind Jennifer Kent's titular monster.

The Babadook is an extremely creepy horror, and it's probably best not to watch it alone. We recount the scariest scenes from the movie.

Some of the stories behind the making of The Babadook are just as fascinating as the hit horror film itself

Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Jennifer Kent, director of The Babadook and her haunting new historical revenge drama The Nightingale. The filmmaker talked about her journey from a theatrically trained actress to a film writer and director, the challenges of making a film as emotionally and physically demanding as The Nightingale, her thoughts on the state of streaming and theatrical distribution, and a whole lot more. Listen to the …

This one sounds pretty rough.

Jennifer Kent made an incredible feature debut with 2014's The Babadook, an assured and absolutely chilling horror movie rooted in dark psychological drama and everyone's primal fear of childhood monsters. For her sophomore feature, the director turns to human monsters with her brutal revenge tale The Nightingale. Set in 1800s Australia, the film follows Aisling Franciosi as a young woman dead set on retribution after a soldier commits horrifying acts of violence against her family. Perri caught The Nightingale at Sundance and called it "a film that both shines and horrifies due to Kent’s attention to detail …

It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook, which hit theaters back in 2014. It’s tough to say her second directorial effort, The Nightingale, is worth the wait for Babadook fans because this new film is quite different and tackles some extremely challenging and often unpleasant subject matter, but perhaps that makes it even more remarkable as it’s a sure sign Kent is telling the story she wants her way with great skill and precision, despite possible pressure to deliver more of the same. The Nightingale features a phenomenal …