Your Babadook is the monster you can’t bear to face but have to because you live with it, and you don’t want to share that monster with another living soul because your suffering self already knows that everyone will leave when they see what the book is really about.

We deconstruct the monstrosity of the monster when we take the time to cultivate a real connection; so when we are able to accept the monster parts of ourselves, we can choose to practice a mindful presence with that self and begin the process of recovering the conscious selves we lost sight of while fixating on what we thought were monsters.

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within…”

That’s what this movie is essentially about. By stifling it or trying to avoid it, we turn the part of “us” that scares us into the enemy without realizing that we are the monsters we’ve villainized. We create horror.