The Babadook Quotes

  • Samuel: [from trailer] DON'T LET IT IN!

  • Samuel: [from trailer] You can't get rid of the Babadook

  • The Babadook: [from trailer] Ba-ba-ba... dook! Dook! DOOOOOKH!

  • The Babadook: [from trailer] You can bring me the boy.

  • Amelia: You are nothing. You're nothing! This is my house! You are trespassing in my house! If you touch my son again, I'll fucking kill you!

  • The Babadook: You can bring me the boy. You can bring me the boy. You can bring me the boy.

  • Amelia: I have moved on. I don't mention him. I don't talk about him.

  • Amelia: I'm sick, Sam. I need help. I just spoke with Mrs. Roach. We're gonna stay there tonight. You want that? I wanna make it up for you, Sam. I want you to meet your dad. It's beautiful there. You'll be happy.

    Samuel: [Sam stabs her] Sorry, Mommy!

  • [last lines]

    Amelia: Happy Birthday, sweetheart.

  • Amelia: Why don't you go eat shit?

  • Amelia: [Amelia is driving Sam home from his aunt's house] Where did you get those firecrackers?

    Samuel: You got them for me on the internet!

    Amelia: [livid] Well, that's the end of the internet.

  • Amelia: [after Sam has snooped around in his father's crawlspace] All your father's things are down there!

    Samuel: He's my FATHER! You don't own him!

  • Amelia: [about the Babadook] Well, I'm not scared.

    Samuel: You will be when it eats your insides!

  • Claire: It must be difficult. I do volunteer work with some disadvantaged women and a few of them have lost their husbands and they find it very hard.

    [Amelia's eyes fill with tears and she stares off into the void, ignoring the conversation]

    Claire: How's Richard's merger going?

    Eastern Suburbs Mum: Oh, good. I mean, his workload's just ballooned. I've got the kids 24/7, it feels like!

    Claire: Tell me about it! I don't even have time to go to the gym anymore! It's ridiculous!

    Amelia: [loud, sarcastic and hostile] That's a real tragedy! Not having time to go to the gym anymore? How do you cope? You must have SO much to talk about with those poor disadvantaged women.

    [the other party guests stare at Amelia with pity]

  • Prue: I'm Prue and this is Warren. How are you?

    Samuel: I'm a bit tired from the drugs Mom gave me...

  • Amelia: [Samuel comes out from hiding and Amelia shrieks like a banshee. Amelia starts approaching Samuel, but he starts wetting himself.] You little pig. Six years old and you're still wetting yourself. You don't know how many times I wished it was you, not him, that died.

    Samuel: I just wanted you to be happy.

    Amelia: [mocking Samuel] I just want you to be happy. Sometimes I just want to smash your head against the brick wall until your fucking brains pop out.

    Samuel: [softly] You're not my mother.

    Amelia: What did you say?

    Samuel: I said you're not my mother!

    Amelia: I AM YOUR MOTHER!

  • Samuel: It wasn't me, Mum! The Babadook did it!

  • Samuel: [loud and hysterical] DO YOU WANT TO DIE?