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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 24135
Released: May 31, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Every culture has one - the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to explain why his father abandoned his family? The answer lies hidden behind every dark corner and half-opened closet of his childhood home - a place he must return to and face the chilling unanswered question does the Boogeyman really exist?
Description of Boogeyman (Special Edition):
Since movies began, thrillers have depended on a door just slightly ajar, with a narrow slit of darkness that promises to hold your worst fears. In the first five minutes of Boogeyman, a young boy's father is violently sucked into a closet, scarring the boy so badly that he grows up to be blank-faced Barry Watson (7th Heaven), who plays Tim, an editor at a newspaper or a magazine or something. Tim, to impress his girlfriend's parents, wears a coat and tie but doesn't shave his sexy stubble. A premonition of his mother's death drives him back to his childhood home so he can exorcise his phobias. From there...well, there's lots of atmospheric cinematography, regular jolts of loud music, and many quick edits. What actually happens is pretty obscure and, really, not worth unobscuring. The obsession with doors and doorknobs verges on the avant-garde. Also featuring a brief glimpse of Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), wearing some truly terrible old-age makeup. --Bret Fetzer
Boogeyman (Special Edition) Reviews:
Pretty Good 
2009-11-09 - Not bad- I never thought of the "Boogeyman" in these terms, but it was entertaining. If you collect, you'll watch it again.
Worst Horror Movie I've Ever Seen 
2009-08-07 - I have never seen a horror movie lamer than this one. If you want to get scared than watch Freddy Vs Jason or It or something, but if you want to see a stupid horror movie that isn't even scary, then by all means, watch this one. The only part I liked was the beginning, because it was actually kind of scary when the Boogeyman ate his father, but the rest is crap and not worth watching. Don't buy or watch it, just ignore it completely.
Looney toon or boogeyman?
2009-07-24 - Did the retired cartoonists from Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toons have their hand in making this film? It is certainly a salient feature. For example, in the beginning of the show, the kid's father is hurled up and down the parameters of the closet space with such force and animation similar to the old cartoons. It is more comical than terrifying. And the ghoul, whose motives are left unstated, seems merely to be a mischievious character reminiscent of bugs bunny or daffy duck, or, better yet, woody the wood pecker of Mel Blanc lore. Except, instead of the humor resuting from that head banging lunacy of Melanerpes formicivorus, we have the same mischief combined with unadulterated malcontent. The acting seems to involve lots of young people with pensive faces trying to imitate how young people talk and act. The theater does have as its goal the imitation of real life, but not verbatim. Improvization and poetic liberty seem to be a foreign concept to many of these young actors. The plot? There wasn't any. No punch line. The producers apparently thought that putting a kid in a haunted house of his youth, embellishing the spook with special effects, and adding a minor subplot of his social life would make for great movie making. It fails miserably. Why this immaterial being is able to bring about physical effects, and why, in the end, he is finally subject to being hit over the head with a common table lamp, begs the question.
One of the worst horror movies I've seen
2009-07-21 - I thought this movie was going to be good, but I don't see what was scary about it at all. It started out looking like it could be scary, but then it ended up being ridiculous. It didn't seem very believable to me that an adult man would still be afraid of the same things as when he was a child. The movie was very boring to me. There were too many scenes where nothing significant was happening. I only finished watching it because I thought it would be worth it to finally see the boogeyman later on in the movie, but I was even more diappointed when I saw it. The monster's CGI was too terrible for it to even be scary. The ending also wasn't very good and left too many unanswered questions. I would only recommend this movie to someone who likes one of the actors or actresses in it. If you want a good horror movie that's worth watching, this isn't it. Some better horror movies are "The Ring" or "The Sixth Sense."
NOT BAD
2009-07-09 - Barry Watson did his part in this movie, we all know him from 7th heaven,
it could have had a better story line but i wouldnt consider this lousey..some sences were pretty good acually, Im a fan of Barry Watson soo ima give this 4 stars..you could watch this more than once for sure..
