Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Stephen Abell I've heard this film is the remake of the 1980's video nasty, though it has a different, and better, storyline to boot. So if you've let that put you off watching this film stop right now.Here you have the story of Tim, (a hit and miss performance by Barry Watson) who suffers mental stress due to strange events in his childhood, where he believes the demon in the closet took his father. When his mother passes he has to sell the family home, which his uncle is kindly refurbishing.On the whole, this is an okay movie, though at the time of release I hated it. My newfound acceptance could be due to the lack of good horror on offer today; or worst yet, I've grown accustomed to the bad elements of this style of horror film which today's directors use in overabundance - such as the swooping camera's and crescendo sounds to startle not scare.The thing I loved most was the demon, though the director, Stephen Kay, should have left the CGI alone; it was mainly the essence of the demon I loved, thank you Eric Kripke who wrote the story and screenplay. Being able to travel anywhere and to any time through the wardrobe gives the viewer the feeling of distortion and unease; this ability also gives the demon great power. The thought of him also being able to take any shape, for Tim, it was the zombie model he used to have by his bedside, is chilling - what would he look like for you?Though most of the camera work is used to create action I did like the creepy segment where Tim meets his old friend and neighbour Kate (played by Bones, oh sorry, Emily Deschanel). This is a brilliantly filmed piece and flows so smoothly, in the age of shaky-cam I loved it.Also, the appearance of Franny, played really well by Skye McCole Bartusaik, was a great hook in the story... a secondary person who had seen the Boogeyman.There's quite a bit of story weaved into this hour and a half film, enough to keep you engaged, and if you like your horror to be at a break-neck pace then this should be right up your street. This could have been so much better though. There are times when Kay creates a spooky atmosphere, which is a great thing as the Boogeyman is about instilling fear into children. This is the way the film should have progressed instead of going the action and assault route.This is better than quite a few horror films around today so if it's on telly or cable then you could do worse than giving it a viewing.

David Roggenkamp I've seen the second Bogeyman; it is an interesting premise – take the fears of a little girl and then have them haunt her as she gets older. Not like any movie hasn't explored the concept of personal demons before, right? Anyway, Bogeyman continues in this tradition, and it follows much half of the feel of the second movie – boring, dull, drama. The main character must face his past in the form of the bogeyman; but rather than actually seeing it, he only sees the telltale signs. As much as an unseen force can be spooky, without actually seeing the creature in question, the rest of the movie falls apart.The main hero decides to face his personal demons and starts to track down the source of it all; strange things continue to haunt him of course, and it goes so far as to the point he hallucinates or is made to look like he is hallucinating to everyone else. I lost track of the last parts of the movie because of how dull it was – I nearly fell asleep several times. If that says anything, I do not recommend this movie. I would rank it as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=5212).

Leofwine_draca Anyone expecting genuine horror from the producers of the EVIL DEAD trilogy – that is, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert – will be sorely tested by this stinker of a film which offers neither horror or chills in a mindless ramble through a bunch of horror film clichés, all done on a PG-13 rating. Yep, that's right, don't go expecting any gore whatsoever in this movie, or anything remotely horrific. Instead it's a dark and downright dull film, made by a nobody MTV director who has fun with all his camera shots but who can't direct his way out of a paper bag when all is said and done. The best bits of this movie have a real EVIL DEAD 2 feel to them – no surprise considering the producers – but the scares are less than half as good and the whole film has a "seen it all before" feel.Astonishingly, it takes over an hour before things get going in the movie, if you can call it that. Until then we get a talentless actor wandering through dingy corridors and having doors pop open in front of him; repetitive, yes, scary, no way. The look of the film is polished but it's so derivative and, in the end, empty, that I would prefer a hundred cheesy B-movies a la CROCODILE than sitting through this again.The cast is a bunch of nobodies, aside from Raimi throwing in his favourite actress, Lucy Lawless, playing the boy's mother in yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance. The appearance of the 'boogeyman' at the film's climax is a hilarious example of how NOT to do CGI on a budget; this ghoulish spectre looks like something out of an '80s computer game, and its two dimensional appearance sadly doesn't cut the mustard in the modern world of effects-driven blockbusters. It would have been better to stick with a man in a rubbery suit. On that note, fans intrigued by the premise will no doubt have a lot more fun with the '80s Troma release, MONSTER IN THE CLOSET.

Toronto85 Boogeyman begins at night time with a little boy in bed afraid of things in the dark, which most kids are. His father comes in and to humour him, checks around the room to make sure "the boogeyman" isn't in there. However, when the man enters the closet he is pulled in by something and the door is slammed shut. Flash forward fifteen years, and the little boy Tim is now an adult (played by Barry Watson) with a pretty normal life, but still with his fear of the boogeyman after seeing what happened to his father. Despite him seeing his father pulled into the closet by something, everyone's been trying to convince him over the years that he imagined the whole thing and that his father left him and his mother one night. Anyways, After finding out that his mother died, Tim decides to spend a night in his old family house where the incident years ago took place. It isn't long before Tim starts to see things happening around the creepy old house. He witnesses doors creak open by themselves, things in the dark that aren't really there, and himself as a little boy roaming around the place. He then has visions of all the children that the boogeyman has supposedly taken over the years. The boogeyman is quickly shown to be an actual supernatural being with the ability to hurt people. He kills Tim's girlfriend and uncle before attacking him and Kate (a childhood friend of Tim's). Eventually Tim realizes that to kill the boogeyman, he has to face him. He does that sending the boogeyman into the closet which has turned into some whirlwind vortex or something. I don't know...The boogeyman had promise and I was really looking forward to seeing it when it came out in 2005. However, the plot is too all over the place and has some really big holes missing from the story. If the boogeyman was just a supernatural "thing" that affected only Tim and his childhood, how was it able to murder his girlfriend and uncle? And then there are the scenes in which Tim goes through a closet door at a motel and end up back at his old house, sort of like a portal. It's just too all over the place at times. Acting isn't bad, it's pretty much all Barry Watson as we see his character confront his fears. Oh and the ending is pathetic. Won't get into it, but it's just so rushed and a little cheesy.If they had just stuck to a more simple plan when creating Boogeyman, it could have been a frightening horror film. They took it to a high level of fantasy and supernaturalism that just made the whole movie lack in the horror/scary department. And that is what the boogeyman is supposed to be; scary. It has its cool moments, but overall isn't what it could and should have been.5/10