In it’s partnership with IFC Midnight, Scream Factory has announced that the critically acclaimed thriller The Babadook, about a widowed mother and her young son being haunted by a bogeyman of some kind, will come to DVD and Blu-ray on April 14th, 2015.
There will be two versions of the Blu-ray release. One is a limited edition that comes in a pop-up package and comes with bonus features not found on the standard Blu-ray edition. Bonus features include theatrical trailers, behind-the-scenes featurettes of the making of The Babadook, plus deleted scenes and director Jennifer Kent’s short film Monster. (Note: the last two extras are exclusive to the limited edition.)
“If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of The Babadook.”
Amelia (Essie Davis) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son’s deep-seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her. A chilling tale of unseen and otherworldly horror in the haunting tradition of The Conjuring and The Orphanage, Jennifer Kent’s visceral journey into the heart of fear itself is as terrifying as it is believable.