Themes and symbolism\n\n Writing for The Daily Beast, Tim Teeman contends that grief is the "real monster" in The Babadook, and that the film is "about the aftermath of death; how its remnants destroy long after the dead body has been buried or burned".

In the last sequence of "The Babadook," the earthworms are often interpreted as a symbol of the repressed trauma and grief that the characters have been dealing with throughout the film.

"The Shining" (1980)\n\n King famously hates director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "The Shining." However, it's still the absolute scariest film based on King's work ever made.