For the first of two October screenings, we are teaming up with our friends at MUBI Canada and the Paradise to bring you an unlikely top-hatted queer icon back up on the big screen where he belongs: The Babadook!

Sure, the rapid memeification of the Bababook as said icon may be a cautionary tale about how arbitrary queer culture can be in choosing and lionizing its objects of praise. But The Babadook also serves campy Gothic nightmare eleganza so fierce that his elevation to the pantheon of gay iconography makes complete sense to us. 
Some may look back to the film and see a queer allegory of the disturbing discontents of heteronormative parenthood, but the rest of us are simply Babashook. And Babashook will shall be together on October 24th at 8pm.

Given the season, we will also be having a costume contest celebrating Paradise’s October programming theme of “maternal horror.” Come dressed as your interpretation of that theme, and win yourself a fabulous prize. Tickets now available in the brand new Queer Cinema Club section at paradiseonbloor.com.