Years before she made The Babadook, Jennifer Kent had already lived through its scariest scene.
“The bug thing came from an experience I had when I was in acting school,” the Australian filmmaker tells Inverse. “All these cockroaches behind the fridge would appear in this little crack in the wallpaper. And so one day I peeled it back and it was just” — Kent shudders and trails off as the memory overtakes her — “I can't describe how revolting that was.”
