Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Jennifer Kent, director of The Babadook and her haunting new historical revenge drama The Nightingale. The filmmaker talked about her journey from a theatrically trained actress to a film writer and director, the challenges of making a film as emotionally and physically demanding as The Nightingale, her thoughts on the state of streaming and theatrical distribution, and a whole lot more. Listen to the …

Jennifer Kent made an incredible feature debut with 2014's The Babadook, an assured and absolutely chilling horror movie rooted in dark psychological drama and everyone's primal fear of childhood monsters. For her sophomore feature, the director turns to human monsters with her brutal revenge tale The Nightingale. Set in 1800s Australia, the film follows Aisling Franciosi as a young woman dead set on retribution after a soldier commits horrifying acts of violence against her family. Perri caught The Nightingale at Sundance and called it "a film that both shines and horrifies due to Kent’s attention to detail …

Jennifer Kent quickly skyrocketed to being one of my favorite filmmakers in the industry after her feature directorial debut The Babadook, and now I’m thrilled to tell you that that title stands after having seeing her second film, The Nightingale. And also after getting the opportunity to talk to Kent about making that film and her priorities as a director in general. As one can imagine, The Babadook opened doors for Kent and those doors could have led to studio level projects and big paychecks, but Kent opted to go for something that’s quite challenging and not necessarily …

It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook, which hit theaters back in 2014. It’s tough to say her second directorial effort, The Nightingale, is worth the wait for Babadook fans because this new film is quite different and tackles some extremely challenging and often unpleasant subject matter, but perhaps that makes it even more remarkable as it’s a sure sign Kent is telling the story she wants her way with great skill and precision, despite possible pressure to deliver more of the same. The Nightingale features a phenomenal …