Babadookie

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2015)

I watched Babadook on the strength of a random article titled: "10 Scariest Movies on Netflix" or something like that. My response to that title is..."Really?"
A widow with a young son tries to cope with the death of her husband while trying to raise a little hellion. One day she stumbles upon a book titled: "Babadook" and after reading it the so-named entity enters their lives.
I'm going to make one safe assumption here: this movie didn't have a big budget. No, scratch that, this movie relied on GoFundMe for their budget. Putting the story aside for a second, the special effects (if that's what you want to call them) were a throwback to the '80's. I'm talking fishing line, camera movement, and bad cut-aways. Allow me to give one example: there is a scene in which she gets into a car accident. She's driving, the camera shot starts getting wobbly, there are some sound effects and the next thing we see are two cars neatly joined for a fender bender.
As for the story: I still don't know what it was. Was the Babadook an apparition, a creature, a demon? I have no clue, and nor do I know its purpose. But then what can be expected from a movie called Babadook? Yes, the movie was as silly as it sounds. In fact, at one point I thought I was watching a scary version of "Home Alone" or "Problem Child". With the boy being a miscreant and the mother being a total train wreck it was hard to get behind the two main characters. I don't see what the hoopla was about this film it was a poor attempt at a scary movie.