Babadook dook don't do

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2015)

I had heard some good things about this and after watching "It Follows" recently I admit I temporarily was restored in thinking maybe a new wave in the genre was sweeping over the immersive slasher takeover of recent years in horror films. However, despite high hopes and really wishing this moving was at least up to par, I realized after a short time that it was really just a recycled version of every other movie with little explained and even less sense made.
SPOILERS BELOW*** The movie opens with an odd sequence involving an accident and a floating lady which most certainly feels like a quick and easy way to either foreshadow or get cheap on character development(never a good way to start a movie, set it up first...). As the movie trails beyond that opening you learn that she is a withdrawn mother after a tragic accident with a child who seems to have serious behavioral issues at school and even around his own cousins. The acting is not bad, but the plot is filled with holes as a book is introduced from nowhere in their home, and the mother reads it to her son despite there being obvious connections to his behavior(she reads it out loud to him which then terrifies him even further).
Slowly she begins to realize the book is why her son has acted strange and makes attempts to find out about it and then get rid of it as actions escalate. Eventually it gets to a point where her own family thinks they are both crazy and don't want to help them. She begins to get more aggressive until the sequences of dreams and dealing with her son turn into her not having an aggressive nature and treating him as if she is possessed and want to harm him.
Eventually she is fully possessed and her son makes good on a promise that they will protect each other and ties her up in the basement. He gets a little too close and she tries to kill him, but she internally fights the Babadook with the love for her child which then causes her to throw up the black vomit that apparently is what has possessed her and then makes an epic last stand which apparently causes the Babadook to fear hurting them as she claims it is trepassing. The movie ends with them reclaiming their lives in normalcy and feeding worms to the Babadook which is now living among them in the basement for some reason unbeknown to the viewer.
Starts odd, ends odd. Just an overall odd attempt and generally not scary at all.