THE BABADOOK (2014) Ending Explained + Analysis 

Y'know what I just realised. The mother repressess all of her emotions, whereas the BOY projects all of his emotions

When the Babadook... gives you that Babalook... you gonna be Babashook

“This is my house! You are trespassing!” The Babadook: *Understandable, have a great day*

I know I'm late, but the bugs pouring through the wall could be her emotions busting out, allowing the babadook in, and the hole being gone when other people come could be them not understanding her grief

The Babadook t-poses to show dominance

04:05 “Why can’t you just be normal?!” *screams* One of my favorites memes but I didn’t know it was from this.

Fun fact: Babadook rescrambled is "A Bad Book"

Damn basically babadook is just a great therapist anyone knows how to hire him ??

“This is my house you are trespassing!” Babadook:well can’t argue with that,gotta leave

The fact they got him as a pet is hilarious

"It's just a coat. It's not real." YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST. Coats aren't real.

the boy beating up his mom Home-Alone Style was the best part

You're not you when you're hungry

"Now they have been dealt with in a healthy way" *tried to kill her own child and killed her dog* Me: oh yes veri healthy

That ain't a Babadook, that's my neighbor RayRay. He's always doing stuff like that.

Mom: WHY CANT YOU JUST BE NORMAL Kid: **SCREAMS**

Babadook: Haha I killed ur dog!!! Sam: That isn’t our dog, we were watching him for the neighbor. Babadook: What neighbor? Sam: Some guy named John Wick Babadook: Oh **** *door knocks*

The Babadook was only trying to help her get over her repressed emotions. He was a good boy

That catapult backpack was pretty sweet tho

babadook: I'll make you a bet, the more you deny the stronger I get. me: DAMMMNNN babadook you got bars, mixtape droppin never

Something you didn't address which I think was worth noting, the fact that the babadook was kept in the basement where she fed it can symbolise how she would go down to the basement to look at her husbands things and spend a moment alone to remember him and when she nearly trips its her having to fight the grief and not let herself sprial back into the way she was.

Therapist: Don’t worry, T-Posing Babadook isn’t real, it can’t hurt you... T-Posing Babadook:

Alternative title for the movie: Home Alone: Halloween Edition

19:02 *"...dealt with in a healthy way..."* I KNEW killing your dog and attempting to kill your child was a healthy way to deal with grief! Maybe I can finally get out of jail now.

you wont be laughing when you hear his name: the poopoopeepeeman

The Babadook - #1 highest rated therapist

"He tells her he knows she doesn't love him, but that it is the Babadook's fault. And that he will always love her" I haven't even watched the movie and this made me tear up a little bit. The childhood inocence and its interpretation about the unfairness of life is so raw, it hits you hard every time.

The thing I love about the ending is that Sam picks the food. He is the one helping tame the grief. And hopefully someday it will be tame enough for Emilia to go through all her husband's items and memory with her son.

It's sad the dog died but they got a new pet a babadook

This kid clearly watched Home Alone. Lol

I always felt that 'the Babadook' was a broad personification of grief. It's in a word, it's in a look, and it will never leave. But you can tame it, if you understand what's happening

Her: Why can't he behave?!? Me: Well, maybe due to inherited mental illness from mom? Her: Good point.

Ya know I kinda feel bad for the Babadook..... He probably spent time making that pop up book then Amelia just rips it up!

Theres a much deeper meaning in this then I feel your letting on, or maybe haven't noticed. There are clues in the movie that point towards the fact that Amelia was a storybook writer, something she's not been able to focus on since her husbands death. So it was her that wrote the babadook, she created the story, in her fractured mind as a way of punishing samual, because of the resentment she had for him. she created the babadook, and while we think we see the creature, the focus of the story is that of a mothers fractured and unsettled mind, and the hyperactive imagination of a child, both from their perspective giving life to the babadook. so while you could argue maybe the creature is real, what it most likely is, is the two main characters going though the grief and wild imagination. At the end of the movie amelia has a mental breakdown, and to samual he see's it as his mother being possessed. The ending is her finally dealing with her grief, and the babadook just being a representation of that grief.

0:36 Anyone remember that short “lights out” film right here? With the woman turning on and off the light? Just me? Ok...

“He’s annoying as shit” sums up the entire movie 😩🤣

Lol the meme at 4:05 "why can't you just be normal!" Florida:Screams

The babadook only haunts people who have expreienced actual fear or a tragedy that leaded them to disasters in their life. So that's a good reason why to face your fears

When i first saw this movie before this vid I actually wanted to tear my eyes out it was so stressful. The psychological was so much.

“Dang, that crafty dook!” Me: it’s not “dook dook” it’s troom troom

the way she treats Sam in the movie is actually horrifying

Hopefully she wont bury the dog in the wrong pet cemetary.

When she screamed at the babadook toward the end, clutching her son, I even felt empowered. She really just told that demon to get the hell out with all the motherly strength that she had. Just wow

Ah yes the scariest, most evil horror movie villain in all of history... The Frankadook

Y'all need to chill on the kid. His mother is the reason he's like that.

The Babadook is just a great therapist

i like to imagine that the babadook is actually good, like what happened after the experience was meant to happen, i imagine that he puts people through these situations and then influences the others mentally to fix the problem, and when they actually try to fix it, he acts like he’s being defeated and causes the mother to realize how much her son actually loves her unusual theory but definitely would be a creative topic

"But now they have been dealt with in a healthy way" Ah yes, what a healthy way to deal with your emotions.

IM BABASHOOK

My brother looks exactly like Sam so it made the movie 10x scarier

The scariest part of this movie for me was when she sees her own face staring through the window on the T.V. Such an eerie moment. Her entire expression just sticks with me.

Someone should make a compilation of all of Foundflixes skits

SO THIS IS WHERE THAT KID SCREAMING MEME COMES FROM

Don't have the guts to watch a horror movie...so I watch their analysis ;D

When i saw this movie, I had the pause and take a break. It made me scared of my own Mom’s yelling, made me come to terms with my own grief. It was just too much for young me, and I have yet to want to watch it again.

Everyone ever: “HA! I’m under my blanket, the monster won’t get me!”

Got a birth control ad before this video.

Something about that part where the mom is trying to choke her son and he just softly touches her face in response just tears something apart in me.

Me: Why are you killing me?! The Ghost: So I can teach you to be open to others and stop being such a wreck. Me: Could I just get a therapist? The Ghost: Well you did kill the therapist earlier Me: Ooh ok understandable

The first interaction w the babadook possession was so terrifying. The way how it’s presence is presented is unique and truly terrifying. Also those long arms, fingers, eyes and hat just made him one of a kind. Strangely and seriously concerning how the babadook looks like a demon I used to have night terrors about as a kid

*Babadook has entered the chat* *Illiterate people have entered the chat* *Babadook has left the chat*

The Babadook is just depression visualized

First of all I CANNOT get over your impeccable intro and outros, the skit format was moving yet comical. The metaphorical flavour is one of which I cannot get enough of. Your apt analysis makes the video watchable and comprehensive while your humour takes this video over the edge. Your voice speaks to my soul, an old soul, one that appreciates cinematography for all it's worth. Thank you for this brandon. much lov e

Baba Dochia In Romanian mythology, Baba Dochia, or The Old Dokia, is a figure identified with the return of spring. She is sometimes imagined as “an old woman who insults the month of March when she goes out with a herd of sheep or goats.”[1] Supposedly the name originates from the Byzantine calendar, which celebrates the 2nd-century martyr-saint Eudokia of Heliopolis (Evdokia) on March 1.[1] The Romanian Dokia personifies mankind's impatience in waiting for the return of spring. Baba Dochia has a son, called Dragomir, who is married. Dochia ill-treats her daughter-in-law by sending her to pick up berries in the forest at the end of February. God appears to the girl as an old man and helps her in her task. When Dochia sees the berries, she thinks that spring has come back and leaves for the mountains with her son and her goats. She is dressed with twelve lambskins, but it rains on the mountain and the skins get soaked and heavy. Dochia has to get rid of the skins and when frost comes she perishes from the cold with her goats. Her son freezes to death with a piece of ice in his mouth as he was playing the flute.

I always babalook for the babadook... Edit: Oh no, he babatook my bababook

Someone get her a therapist, a priest, and some salt. WE'RE FIXING THIS.

It's never good to repress grief, especially the loss of a loved one.

That begging with Frank at 0:37 was amazing and love the way he say Duke duke duke it cracks me up every time our man knows how to start a review

so basically... If you yourself cannot release, Babadook will come to take a piece

Amelia: "YOU ARE TRESPASSING!" Babadook: "Y-you are-are the on-on-one who le-le-le-let me in."

That intro was so funny! Love this channel.

She creeped me out, especially at the end with her child.

the part that actually TERRIFIED me in this movie is really the mother son relationship and more specifically when she begins to lose her mind. the idea of a child having to live with a mother who is not actually a mother because she is too psychologically ill to be one, THAT is scary it is terrifying to see how she yells and says those things to him because it ACTUALLY HAPPENS in real life and i can GUARANTEE it is probably the worse most destructive thing to have happen to a child, for a child is dependent on their parents and have nowhere else to go. it’s just... it’s heartbreaking THIS IS WHAT CONDOMS ARE FOR PEOPLE!! STOP HAVING CHILDREN JUST SO U CAN DESTROY THEM 🤠

Foundflix:She isn't releasing her grief. *The Look-see has entered the chat*

Man, I loved this movie when it came out. Everything from the setting to the cinematography and interpretative story was fantastic. Definitely one of those horror movies I could recommend to anyone.

That is fascinating, how a certain style of German films reflects outwardly how the protagonist feels inwardly. I genuinely appreciate trivia like that and find it always entertaining since you seem to feel a movie more when you can connect with the author in some way. Thanks for your skits and trivia. You are a professor in filmdom

You know, I can take the craziest shit, no matter how gory it is or violent. But please not the dog :(

Tbh the most effective therapist treatment ever

I actually think the worms being fed to the Babadook are a peice of symbolism themselves. With the Babadook, and with grief, it's shown there are times where invasive thoughts are projected onto the mother that push her further into grief. It's natural to not want to feel or relive those memories, but it's important to recognize them for what they are. Still not completely over her husband's death, I believe she's collecting those worms as a way to gather all the "ear worms" or invasive thoughts she's having and attributing them to the death of her husband properly instead of trying to force them out of her mind.

A Scott Pilgrim vs the world framed poster. That garners all the respect

*Dog Dies* Everybody: *Triggered*

Amelia was the author of the child's book. She is an author of children's books as stated at the beginning. The worms symbolize how our "bodies" decompose in the earth, eaten by worms. She is "feeding" her "grief " with worms to digest and decompose/get rid of that grief. That was a brilliant touch.

I like the cat on the chair in the intro, when he falls down

I'm watching/listening to this while I'm working. That little skit at about 30 seconds... the timing was perfect, as soon as you turned around I did the same to look at my screen. The music and the robed dude actually spooked me a little hahahaahahaah

They briefly sold a few thousand copies of the actual Babadook pop up book. Beautiful piece for any horror fan. You won't find it at a cheap price anymore though. I have one signed by Jennifer Kent (the director)

the most terrifying thing about this movie is the constantly screaming child...

I really like your skits and explanations! One of the best movies of all time ♥️

Like I told Ryan Hollinger, thanks for these videos mate. I am not very fond of watching movies anymore, so Experiencing them through you is a blast for me. Also, I get scared quite easily so, yeah

...and then she killed the dog and we couldn't be friends again.

Is the babadook a got damn pokemon. Why he just say his own name

Yo, that one scene of her seeing herself smiling in that news story gave me freaking chills, I don't know why but just that cold yet inviting smile is simply terrifying in my opinion

A significant film and one that I've appreciated far more since learning more about it. One thing I appreciated from reading the production details on Wikipedia is that significant efforts were to made to keep the set a happy and relaxed and safe place for the actors, especially child actor Noah Wiseman. I don't care how 'big' or how much money a movie makes - it MUST look after its cast and all staff involved in its production.

Samuel: the babadouk will come into our room and eat our insides Me: MAY THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPEL YOU

Idk if anyone noticed this but at 4:37 the movie also portrays the mom and son’s personalities and emotions through the lamps. The lamp on the moms side is darker and covered up, like her emotions. However, the sons is bright and yellow symbolizing his innocent behavior. :))

I'm binging all ur horror vids. I've already given up sleeping at night.

The scene at 14:10 genuinely scared me, there’s something so unsettling with the way the camera zooms in on the face that at first was unnoticed

*Dook has joined the server*

Foundflix: A perfectly balanced life THANOS: As everything should be...

Love your channel mate good job

The movie was always very emotional and cerebral; the Babadook was a literal metaphor for grief. Grief was a monster for Amelia because she was so trapped in denial, and Sam was too innocent and ignorant to understand the concept of grief that he could only accept it as something to be feared the way his mother did. In the end, the mother and son triumphed by facing their grief and accepting it into their lives without letting it take them over or living in fear of it.