Emily Deschanel Movie:

		List Price: $14.94		Label: Sony Pictures Salesrank: 34993 Released: May 31, 2005
		Our Price: $5.20
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: UMD for PSP

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?System Requirements:Starring: Barry Watson Emily Deschanel Skye McCole Bartusiak Lucy Lawless Directed By: Stephen Kay Running Time: 88 Min. Copyright Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005Format: UMD Genre: HORROR Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396113336 Manufacturer No: 11333

Description of Boogeyman [UMD for PSP]:
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 [UMD for PSP] Reviews:
BIG AL REVIEW
2008-10-04 - THOUGHT THE MOVIE DRAGGED OUT MOST OF THE TIME......ONLY ACTION WAS A FEW MINUTES AT THE END.......I DID NOT HATE IT... BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN.....IT'S A MOVIE TO WATCH WHEN NOTHING ELSE IS ON....

FIRST RATE SCARY MOVIE!
2008-07-04 - If you have at least half a brain and a teaspoon of imagination you may want to ignore the negative reviews on this movie. Those reviewers are clearly expecting (and looking forward to) yet another teen slasher movie. This isn't one of those. This is pure psychological horror, and done exceptionally well. No blood and guts, does not rely heavily on sound effects - this is a movie from someone who understood terror on a very fundamental level and put it in a movie. There's an interesting Bad Guy, interesting characters and an interesting premise. This is one of the best horror films I've seen in years.

AW, C'MON!!! THIS FLICK IS WORTH 2 STARS, ISN'T IT? ISN'T IT????
2008-06-20 - I was afraid I'd be the only reviewer giving this chunk of Hollywood nothingness a poor rating. I've seen high ratings on some worthless movies. Thankfully, general consensus seems to agree with my humble opinion that this movie was all about using the known legend of the boogeyman to get people's attention, don't bother writing a script or developing a plot, don't feel the need to explain any of what's happening....just throw a couple of 'pretty' college age kids on the screen, add some reasonable special effects in a couple of scenes, suddenly startle the audience a few times (such as when a guy's driving down a road with his mind wandering, suddenly have a bird fly into his windshield for no reason, just to startle the audience and make up for the fact that the flick has nowhere to go), occasionally lean on eerie lighting and shadows, etc.....and before you know it, you have a movie. I figure this movie is worth 2 stars, because there are a few mildly entertaining scenes with decent special effects. And, it is a good movie to put in the DVD player late at night if you're having trouble falling asleep, and you need something to put you to sleep. But all in all, this movie is a very transparent attempt to make money using an established premise like the Boogeyman to get people's attention, and then hope that special effects and 'pretty' demographically-ideal-aged actors will make up for the lack of actually MAKING A MOVIE! A final hint to the filmmakers: If you wanted to make a flick that so transparently relies on nothing but fluff, nudity and sex are sure-fire ways of getting people to pay attention to you. Try THAT next time. Okay?


More run of the mill nonsense from Hollyweird
2008-06-16 - I'm so glad I didn't see this in the theater.
I was bored so I rented this mess of a movie.
Who wasn't scared of the Boogyman when they were growing up?
I had a hard time believing the directors would be able to pull off a decent movie and I was right.
Horrid acting, horrid story, horrid everything.
I think the only time I jumped was when the movie ended and I had to jump off the couch to take it out of the player.
Lame, pathetic, and unmemorable. Another movie destined for the bargin bin.
AVOID!!!


It actually beat my rock bottom expectations... yes, I'm surprised
2008-05-29 - I just need to first say that I would probably really give this 2.5 stars instead of a flat out 2. That being said, this movie actually managed to beat the incredibly low expectations I had for it. Not that this ended up being a really great film, it just wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. I wouldn't even remotely class this as a horror film after seeing it; it's more like a suspense or thriller film from my point of view. The story line is hardly original, as I'm sure anyone could guess by the title, but it was a fairly interesting take on the old childhood tale.

Basically the premise of the film is that as a child Barry Watson's character, Tim, witnessed his father being taken by the Boogeyman. Naturally no one believed his story and said he manifested the idea because his father really ran off. However, he spends the rest of his life being frightened of closets and so forth. So, when the other reviewers say the first portion of the film spends a good deal of time staring at slightly ajar closets, they're right. Personally, these parts are hilarious and give your friends and you time to laugh at the sequence and its general absurdity. The fact that Barry Watson is actually a good actor really made this movie fairly decent. His blonde girlfriend on the other hand was just annoying. Anyway, the Boogeyman never stops pestering Tim and those around him and really adds to the general concept that all the stories are real, which makes the movie suspenseful. However, I have to say I really didn't find it scary and as another reviewer pointed out can easily be watched with some younger people (it is rated PG-13 after all), because there is very little violence or gore.

This movie was fairly decent up until the end. The end was pretty cheesy in my opinion. I understand what they were doing and how the Boogeyman was created/made up, but it was still kind of silly (again, it's a children's story, I know). I was hoping for more of an adult revelation towards the end though, like some sort of occult/ancient dark spirit concept that just flowed and would actually be more frightening. We didn't get that in this film though, it almost went in that direction when Tim learned about a guy who tried to understand the entity, but they never really built up that more realistic fear factor.

Naturally this type of movie isn't going to blow me away and it's certainly not something I'll be watching over and over again. It's an overly simple and basic movie and it really doesn't hold a huge amount of merit in that, but up till the end I did enjoy the mystery and the adventure of trying to figure things out. I thought that part was at least fairly well written. If you really have nothing to do and this movie is playing on TV then I wouldn't say you're going to waste your time watching it, but other than that I wouldn't really seek this movie out. Just don't have high expectations and you'll get some enjoyment I suspect. Maybe I just have a more positive outlook on this because I was expecting an actually terrible film with absolutely no coherent story or good acting! But hey, that's just me.