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The Babadook(2014)
Released
2014 · FILM

The Babadook

A grieving single mother must protect her terrified son from an ominous, shape‑shifting entity that haunts their home, or risk losing both sanity and the fragile bond that keeps them together.

“If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of...”

Directed by
Jennifer Kent
Written by
Jennifer Kent
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
94 min
DramaHorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book begins to exert a strange and unsettling influence on their lives.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 44+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Simon NjooShot by Radek LadczukScored by Jed KurzelDesigned by Alex Holmes

Box Office

2014 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.3M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$10.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $46K

Peak 3 theaters

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Also known as

  • Der Babadookde
  • Mister Babadookfr

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