https://vo.rs/tags/jennifer-kent/Latest from the Jennifer Kent desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-babadook-the-monster-in-the-basement-of-the-mind/<p>Jennifer Kent&rsquo;s <em>The Babadook</em> (2014) arrived wearing the costume of a haunted-house film and turned out to be a study of a woman drowning in grief while raising a child she cannot always bring herself to love. That gap between the costume and the thing underneath is the film&rsquo;s whole method, and it is why the picture has outlasted a hundred slicker ghost stories from the same years. The monster in the top hat is a magnificent piece of design. The horror is somewhere else entirely, in a suburban Adelaide house where a mother has not slept properly in six years.</p>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:00:00 +0000