Different actors. "Babaduk" - the mystical horror of Jennifer Kent

Modern genre products are horror extremelyare rarely able to surprise the sophisticated spectator, most often these are standard variations of bored genre clichés, filled with effects oriented on the basic instincts. This does not hide either the creators of the pictures, nor the actors who embodied the idea of ​​the director on the screen. Babaduk is an exception. The film, fitting into the standard structure for horror, turns out to be a truly elegant and meaningful creation. The genre in the tape serves only for the design of the story, filmed by debutant director Jennifer Kent. She acted as a stage director and scriptwriter, creating one of the most interesting and clever horrors in the last 20 years, without resorting to low tricks. The plausibility of the plot action helped her save E. Davis and N. Wiseman - talented actors. "Babaduk" thanks to their exceptionally organic acting does not slide to the level of hysteria.

The plot of the picture

The main heroine, widow and mother Amelia (actress E. Davis), survived the terrible tragedy. On the way to the hospital, she and her husband fall into a car accident. She and the child were still alive, and her loving husband died suddenly. Years pass by, inconsolable woman, working as a nurse, barely making ends meet, raising her son on her own. Unadapted to the society, little Sam (Noah Wiseman), fencing himself off from the outside world, constantly constructs simple weapons and easily loses control over himself. One day a child finds a book about the terrible monster Babaduke, who, hiding in the dark, makes people do terrible things. Since this time the boy has completely lost peace, and with it Amelia, who also imagines Babaduk.

Two-layered narrative structure

There is everything in the narrative: forced early growth, suppressed pain, tormenting feelings of guilt. The whole spectrum of emotions was tried to convey to the viewer actors. "Babaduk" clearly does not fit into the conventional formula of mystical horror. The film is designed in such a way that through the outer layer, the classic story about the Boogeyman, harassing an already troubled family (associations with Candyman and Nightmares on Elm Street), there emerges the basis - an allegorical dramatic narrative of an early widowed woman who can not let go of the deceased spouse. All this amazing emotional cocktail was brilliantly played by professional Davis and Noah - a young actor who supposedly was born to be shot in horror.

Actors' ensemble of the film

The main roles in the horror were performed by actress E. Davis, known to the audience for the films Australia, Matrix Reloaded, Girl with a Pearl Earring, N. Wiseman, H. McElhinney, D. Henshall and others. The performer of the main female role, Essey Davis, daughter of the famous Australian artist George Davis, embodied on the screen a hero with a completely shattered nervous system, which could already be placed in the special hospital. The actress is so good in the image that she can not tear her eyes off, her skills are amazing and there's nothing to complain about. Essie Davis made her debut in cinema in 1995, played more than 30 roles in television and cinema.

A clawed monster. The actor who embodied him

In the center of the horror story, as it should becanons of the genre, a monster from a child, and perhaps an adult nightmare, which the main characters can not cope with. In separate episodes a clawed monster in a cylindrical hat is played by an actor - Benjamin Vinsper. The artist got a rather complicated character. On the one hand, it really is a monster, first settling in a dwelling, and after and in the mind of the main character. But on the other hand, Babaduk is the embodiment of Amelia's fears and emotions: the fear of letting go of the deceased spouse, excessive irritability, repressed hatred of the child. Not without reason, scriptwriter and stage director Jennifer Kent, taking into account the texture of Vinsper, uses caricature, almost puppet Babaduk to aggravate feelings to the limit, their hypertrophy. The character of B. Vinsper is complicated, at his show the director adhered to noble restraint and laconism. Nobody considered the character as second-rate - neither Kent nor the actors involved in the shoot. "Babaduk" did not make Vinsper famous, like the performer of the role of Krueger Robert Ingland, however, the project has not yet become a franchise. Perhaps we should wait for the sequel to appear.

The Celebration of Directing from Kent

"Babaduk" is not just another cheap checkpointhorror story, this is the triumph of the art of directing, the psychological study of growing madness. And frightens him most of all is not a dark thing that appears unexpectedly, but the relationship between two relatives and the closest people. Jennifer Kent - a real virtuoso, able to fashion a drama from a trifle, while avoiding the hints of musical accompaniment and cheap special effects.