Come and pet my Broody Babadook in the closet under the stairs. He’s a huge drama queen! 9/10 Broody Byronic Babadooks.

Content Warning: animal cruelty, mental illness, grief, PTSD, potential child abuse/neglect, monsters in the closet!

Links:

Episode extended show notes on KR website: https://kinoroyale.net/episodes/babadook

Find me: @filmladyroyal on Letterboxd, Bluesky & Instagram.

Email: [email protected]

Discover Film Lady: https://filmladyproductions.netlify.app/

Music - via Free Music Archive — CC BY: 

• Universfield - Creepy Horror Background

• Universfield - Creepy Tension Background

• Universfield - Dark Mystery Atmosphere

• Universfield - Mystery Horror

• Universfield - Paranormal Horror Background

• Universfield - Spirit Horror

• Mark Kingard - Insect Mind

• Triple5 Here - Creepy

Cultural: 

Spider - OZ drink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_float

Russians in Turkey: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Russians-like-to-visit-Turkey-so-much

Doxa on YT on new Russian textbooks for schoolkids on how to build a ‘proper’ family: https://youtu.be/6HHkqfoniLk?si=N6ww08Hzqu1odqcT

Make Russia Medieval Again: https://theconversation.com/make-russia-medieval-again-how-putin-is-seeking-to-remold-society-with-a-little-help-from-ivan-the-terrible-253812

Water pollution in Russia: https://factsanddetails.com/russia/Nature_Science_Animals/sub9_8c/entry-5064.html

The State of the Black Sea Ecosystem: https://europeangreens.eu/resolutions/blacksea-ecosystem-danger/

Sources:

• Cold Open - excerpt from IMDB quotes from the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/quotes/?item=qt6339100

• Warm Close - excerpt from ‘Boogeyman’, short story from Stephen King’s ‘Night Shift’, 1978, Anchor Books Edition, 2012 copy.

Movie IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/

Recs:

Books:

• Brothers Grimm - "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Hansel and Gretel", "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Snow White". 

• Hans Christian Andersen - "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", "Thumbelina."  

Pods:

• House of Cinema
• BTW I found Mike Flanagan's pod - it's Directors Commentary w/MF

Tv shows:

Lisey’s Story (2021), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3319460

Movies:

Sinister (2012), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922777

Talk to me (2022), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10638522

Bring Her Back (2023), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32246771

Boogeyman (2023), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3427252

Leviticus (2026), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39143902/

Acknowledgment of Country

I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.