Babadook is actually just a metaphor of the grieve the mother is holding all along since her husband's death....

In the end she did not manage to remove it altogether... she still have to feed it from time to time.... but you can see she can control it the end after she acknowledge it's existant and stop living in denial.....

Babadook is actually just a metaphor of the grieve the mother is holding all along since her husband's death....

In the end she did not manage to remove it altogether... she still have to feed it from time to time.... but you can see she can control it the end after she acknowledge it's existant and stop living in denial.....