‘Hokum’ Is This Generation’s ‘The Babadook’ (Affectionately)

‘Hokum’ Is This Generation’s ‘The Babadook’ (Affectionately)

May 8, 2026 Dread Central

The Babadook, Jennifer Kent’s feature debut that stunned the world in 2014, is a meme. I mean that affectionately as someone who would rank it among the greatest horror movies ever made. For everyone else? Not so affectionately, I’d imagine. The Babadook was released at the cusp of the post-irony digital era, where nothing mattered, and nothing was taken seriously....