Boring and Pathetic

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 2014)

After viewing the trailer for this film I immediately wanted to see it, it promised to be a very good film and appeared to have a good storyline..... My how appearances are deceiving! I don't actually know how to begin this review as the film is so so very bad, I am unsure where to start. I have ticked the contains spoiler box to cover myself, although there isn't a great deal of story to the film so I'm sure I won't ruin it for anyone.
Let me start off by saying the reviews on this site for this film are laughable! I have read a couple of reviews however, that have given the film a 1/10 or a 2/10 and I agree with them. Trust me though, if there was an option to rate zero stars or minus then I most certainly would have. OK, so we start out with a mother child relationship which actually intrigued me as I was thinking along the lines of The Ring, Dark Water which are quite good. The mother is a washed out, depressed woman who couldn't smile for all the tea in china. Her son on the other hand is actually very quirky and I found him to be extremely intelligent and by far the best actor. We then have the bedtime story and the anticipated Babadook book, a book with a sinister rhyme and a few blank pages. This takes up about the first quarter maybe more of the film, which is very slow (YAWN). Then we have the light bulbs flickering, a few knocks at the door and another version of a Babadook book (you'll see for yourselves what I mean). This is basically it, until the film turns even more pathetic and the woman gets overtaken by the "monster" which actually looks stupidly similar to a pencil drawing drawn by a very bad or very drunk artist. Trust me when I say that this is basically it! There is a part of this film that contains unnecessary animal cruelty and I did at this point skip the film for a couple of seconds, but I doubt that couple of seconds made the film any better to be honest another hour of this film couldn't have improved it...
It's extremely boring and drawn out, it is filled full of suspense but that suspense leads absolutely nowhere! After I watched the film I did a Google search as I wanted to know what the purpose of the story actually was, while I didn't find my answer I did find a review which labelled the film as "intelligent". Let me just state with 100% certainty that, if this film for one second is intelligent then I am the Queen of England. Apart from the acting by the little boy which is great, the rest of it is terrible. The monster is an awful black smudge of pencil, which isn't seen for 99% of the film, and the story is hideously bad and extremely boring!! Trust me people if for one second you are considering watching this, decorate your house and watch the paint dry instead.... You'll enjoy it more! Don't pay cinema prices, don't waste good money buying it and if you are desperate to see it watch it on Sky Box office or Netflix, at least that way you're getting a choice of other films for your money and not just this pathetic excuse for a film.
Would I watch this again? NO! Never ever ever as long as I live, even if I was the only person on the planet and this was all that was on Television! Do I recommend it? NO! I cannot tell you enough how bad it is, why on earth the reviews are stating "Best film ever" and "Awesome" is actually beyond me. All I can assume is that people have been watching this film while very drunk, as a Disney film would have been more scary!! I rated a 1/10 which I believe is still too good for this pile of crap, trust me people save your money and one hour and thirty minutes of your lives and avoid this film like the plague.