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With Jennifer Kent's The Babadook celebrating its 10th anniversary, Cinema Paradiso marks the occasion with a special Halloween What to Watch Next.

Jennifer Kent is a firm believer in the visceral power of horror. Yet, she also insists that the genre affords film-makers greater freedom to discuss taboo topics with an intellectual and emotional rigour and frankness that would not be possible with a conventional drama.

Thus, while she wanted The Babadook (2014) to examine the impact of unresolved grief and suppressed depression, Kent also wanted to confront viewers with physicalised fear so that they could experience the sensation of feeling so enmeshed in the depths of a dark shadow that the only way out was to address their outer and inner terrors.

As she told one interviewer, 'I wanted it to feel like a pair of hands gently placed on the audience's neck, growing tighter and tighter and tighter until they felt they couldn't breathe.' Not only did she succeed in her aim, but Kent also created the most disturbing picture in the first hundred years of Australian horror.

Things That Go Bump Down Under

For decades, horror wasn't in the Australian screen lexicon. The silent era had yielded the odd creepy thriller, such as Frank Barrett's The Strangler's Grip (1912) and Charles Villiers's The Face At the Window (1919), while a hint of the supernatural had informed John Cosgrove's The Guyra Ghost Mystery (1921) and Raymond Longford's Fisher's Ghost (1924). But the censor took such a dim view of the genre that virtually no horror movies were shown until the late 1960s.

Moreover, as there was no sustained tradition of horror writing, Australia failed to produce its own Edgar Allan Poe or Bram Stoker. All that changed in 1961, however, when novelist Kenneth Cook deposited a timid Sydney schoolteacher in a sinister outback town. It took 10 years before Canadian Ted Kotcheff brought Wake in Frig

Etymology of Rendall

What does the name Rendall mean?

The Rendall name is an important part of the history of the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. Rendall is derived from the baptismal name Randel. In this case the surname Rendall was a diminutive of the personal nameRand, a short form of various German names with the first element rand meaning shield or wolf.1

Alternatively, the name was derived from the name of an ancestor as in 'the son of Randolph,' from the nickname Randle. As such, the earliest records of the family were as a forename as in Randle de Arclet, Cheshire, temp. 1290. 2

Early Origins of the Rendall family

The surname Rendall was first found in the parish of Ladock in Cornwall. "Hay, which was formerly deemed a genteel residence, was successively a seat of the families of Randyll, Tregain, and Bone." 3

Early History of the Rendall family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Rendall research. Another 95 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1436, 1570, 1581, 1587, 1592, 1598, 1622, 1758, 1781, 1799, 1815, 1822 and 1856 are included under the topic Early Rendall History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Rendall Spelling Variations

Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Rendall were recorded, including Randall, Rendle, Randal, Rendel, Rendell and others.

Early Notables of the Rendall family

Notables of the family at this time include John Randall (1570-1622), English divine, born at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire who was sent at the early age of eleven to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he matriculated on 27 Nov. 1581. He was elected a fellow of Lincoln College on 6 July 1587. "On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's vis

Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly – circa 1958

“You say you’re gonna leave me / You know it’s a lie / ‘Cos that’ll be the day-ay-ay / When I die’ – ‘That’ll Be The Day’ (Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison)

“My life has been what you might call an uneventful one, and it seems there is not much of interest to tell,” writes Buddy Holly in an autobiographical essay for his English class when he is a teenaged high school student.  “I have many hobbies,” he continues.  “Some of these are hunting, fishing, leatherwork, reading, painting, and playing Western music.  I have thought about making a career out of Western music if I am good enough but I will just have to wait and see how that turns out…”

Buddy Holly (7 September 1936–3 February 1959) is born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas in the United States of America.  He is the son of Lawrence Odell ‘L.O.’ Holley (1901-1985) and Ella Pauline Holley (nèe Drake) (1901-1990).  The family is mostly of English and Welsh descent, but there is some Native American heritage in there too.  ‘L.O.’ Holley was brought up on a farm, but it was while working as a short-order cook that he met the woman who became his wife.  The married couple moved from Northeast Texas to Lubbock in the 1920s when cotton farming provided an economic boom period in the State’s west.  Lubbock is ‘a community of innumerable churches and zero barrooms.  No liquor is served or sold inside the town line.’  During the great depression (1929-1939), the Holley family moved house a number of times – but always within Lubbock.  ‘L.O.’ Holley changed jobs several times.  He became a tailor by trade.

‘L.O.’ and Ella Holley have four children, three boys and a girl.  Their offspring are: Larry (born in 1925), Travis (1927-2016), Patricia Lou (1929-2008) and Charles (7 September 1936-3 February 1959).  The family attends Tabernacle Baptist Church and their youngest – like his kin – is brought into the Baptist faith.  Charles Hardin Holley is nicknamed ‘Buddy’ at an ea