The Babadook ... or The Red Book?-)

I watched a movie called The Babadook a few nights ago after a sync-head friend, Johanna, told me it was one of the most scariest movies she has ever seen.

I wouldn't say it was a really scary movie, but it is definitely worth a watch considering it is a low budget Australian movie.

I found it very interesting on an archetypal level and I couldn't help thinking it was very Jungian with the Mister Babadook book being a predominately red book and all.

Whether the writer/director of The Babadook was influenced by Jung's Red Book, or not, I couldn't say, but on a synchromystic level at least I would have to say there are a lot of similarities indeed.
It's a thinking person's horror movie which I feel is a cross between Rosemary's Baby, The Shining and The Nightmare.

In fact, it is one of those movies that you could analyze till the cows come home.

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The Babadook gliding through the air

Illustration from Jung's Red Book.

And on the subject of The Shining, and the Red Book, there is even a chapter on page 237 of The Red Book titled Descent into Hell in the Future

Written on the back cover of The Red Book

There is even a dartboard scene in The Babadook as well

Dartboard scene from the movie, The Shining

Flipside of the Dartboard
" A red stream of blood, thick red blood springs up, surging for a long time, then ebbing. 
I am seized by fear. 
What did I see?" . 
From the chapter starting on page 237 of Jung's Red Book - 
Descent into Hell in the Future.

Dartboards Again?