Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.The world shall forever remember 2017 as the year of The Babadook.
Though the eponymous film first debuted in 2014, the Australian monster hit became one of the top viral stories of 2017 when screenshots of the eponymous film listed as gay interest on Netflix began turning up around the web.
In an even stranger twist, the queer community began to embrace the character as an LGBTQ icon. Gay Babadook memes surged on social media, and the character even started turning up at pride celebrations.This Halloween, we look back at where it all started.