Boring and Depressing

Rating: 2/10 (31 October 2014)

I have ticked "contains spoiler" to comply with the IMDb rules but to be honest reading this will not spoil the film for anyone with at least half a brain cell.
I watched this after reading reviews all over the place that it was the "scariest film of the year" and other commendations such as "fantastic" or "Psychological horror". However I found nothing to be further from the truth.
Set in some dreary Australian country town a Widow and her young son are finding it hard to come to terms with the loss of his father and her husband in a car crash some years earlier.
At least I think that is the reason why the woman had a face like a kite from the very beginning and showed hardly any love towards her son who initially had behaviour issues before somehow becoming cured on a weeks' worth of prescription sedatives.
I must confess at this stage that I did not watch all of the film and turned it off at the point she was going to throttle their pet dog! So if by any miracle the part I missed makes the first part any better please accept my apologies. I think it safe to say however this is no Pulp Fiction masterpiece! So after booting some horrible little girl out of her tree house and busting her nose the little bugger takes a hand crafted weapon to class and shoots that off. The school suggests supervised tuition in all lessons (how generous to donate such resources) but this isn't good enough for old kite face so she takes him out of school.
The kid then finds some book called "The Babadook" from anywhere you care to imagine and chooses it for a bedtime story one night. Mother starts to read the scary illustrated pop-up book to her nutcase son before realizing half way through it won't end well, flicks through the last 6 blank pages (yeah I'm thinking straight away those will soon be mysteriously filled in) and switches to Winnie the Poo or some such thing.
She hides the book away before it reappears again so she rips it up and throws it in the outside bin. Now at this point something rings a bell in my head from another film where something bad or evil was ripped up, thrown in a bin, comes back again glued together before being burnt instead.
Well would you guess it, the next day there is hammering on the front door and it is good old "The Babadook" book returning home! And not only has it been glued back together but the last pages have been filled in - Never! Those last pages basically explain that she will become even more of a loveless sour faced old hag than she already is, will kill the dog and then the kid, the end. So there is your spoiler (if you actually consider there is anything to spoil) as up to the throttling the dog part at least that is exactly what happens when I hit the 'Stop' button.
Look out for The Babadook himself; you will know him when you see him as he looks like he was pencil animated in a few brief times like a badly drawn cartoon character lost in A-Ha's "Take on Me" music video! Don't waste your time with this croc mate!